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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: -----and how many of those will be delivered in 2024?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. Last week, we had a very frustrating session with the Department of Health and the HSE. I will not go into the issues now. However, the substance of it was that it takes far too long to get anything done in healthcare. The delivery of some of the big picture reforms we are awaiting is moving at a very slow pace and there is no urgency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I have a real concern about some of these national strategies. The previous cardiovascular strategy was a very good one, as Mr. Macey rightly said. We see across mental health and in different areas that plans, visions and strategies are put in place and we all buy into them but they rarely get implemented in full. It is often piecemeal and funding is at the whim of a Minister in any given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: Before I address the representatives of Croí, I will make a number of points. The Irish Heart Foundation's opening statement refers to growing concern that 70 to 75 posts required under the strategy for 2024 will not be delivered. I would say it is a certainty they will not be delivered because there is no new additional funding. We had that clarified at this committee a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I ask Croí to answer the same question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: I have not seen the review and do not know what it is in it, although I know it is sitting on the Minister's desk. Even if it is published, it will make recommendations around specialist services in acute hospitals but that is it. All the other pieces of what would be a CVD strategy still need to be done. There is no indication yet that there is any substantial work done by the Department...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: First, I want to commend the Women's Parliamentary Caucus, and the chair and vice chair, on their work on this comprehensive motion that raises a number of issues across the formal and informal care sectors. I welcome the debate today on behalf of Sinn Féin. I express our support for a rights-based approach to care, and the right to care. I am glad that the Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the new adaptation programme offered to overseas applicants by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 307. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed in relation to assessment processes undertaken by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from non-EU applicants, by country of training and in tabular for each year from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of decision letters issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland to non-EU applicants, by country of training and in tabular form for each year from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54268/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-EU applicants who were registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland by country of training and in tabular form, for each year 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54269/23]

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: The Irish people, or at least the vast majority of them, will never be led by extreme voices when it comes to immigration because Irish people are fair and welcoming. We have seen that over the course of many years. Properly managed immigration enriches a society. We see this in our hospitals with nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants and specialists right across the health service coming...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: Go raibh maith agat. On what basis is a decision made about how existing levels of service, ELS, are calculated for any Department and what is this made up of, generally?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: The head of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, appeared before the Joint Committee on Health and said that the existing level of spending, ELS, for 2023 and 2024 was underfunded. We know that for 2023, the health service ran a deficit of approximately €1.5 billion. The cash deficit was approximately €1.1 billion but taking accruals into account, the head of the HSE...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: The Minister can put a spin on the situation but the reality of what is in the briefing notes prepared for him, which I presume he was asked to articulate to the head of the Department of Health and the Minister for Health, paints an entirely different picture. Perhaps the Minister will let me finish my point. It suggests this was not the normal cut and thrust of division that might take...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: Well-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: What you cannot do is challenge facts. I am entitled to my opinion and the Minister is entitled to his. Earlier, I raised what are legitimate concerns and issues about a perceived mistrust between his Department and the Department of Health and the language in these documents and then he has come back to say that this just the normal cut and thrust of the ELS process every year. That is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: Could I just make one point?