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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...damage to the HSE. I have received a number of letters from people over recent weeks. One was from a young pharmacist from my constituency of Waterford, a graduate of a top university who had applied for a role in the health service about which she was extremely enthusiastic and was told she cannot be hired because of the recruitment embargo. Likewise, a student paramedic, who was...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: ...was. The letters stated the HSE was to clamp down on bad spending and so on, but it did not happen. Of course, I welcome the fact there is now a focus on this and that the Minister says he will apply more political pressure or heat, but there should have been a focus all the way through. I am just saying that it looks very peculiar that the two people asked to head the task force are...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: I know it also does not apply to fourth-year nurses. I should have accepted all of this so that we can cut straight to what it does affect.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: ...vast majority of people will not do that. We need to make it much clearer and much simpler. We need to explain that if a person is on income X then he or she qualifies for this card and how to apply. That is part of the problem. There is a clear messaging need here from the HSE and the Department.

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

David Cullinane: ...when he was before the Joint Committee on Finance. The head of the Department of Health said that inflation was running somewhere between 10% and 17%, depending on what one is looking at, and that applied to both pay and non-pay expenditure. He said inflation is, at a minimum, 10%. The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform was pushing back...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...(ii), be read as a reference to 5.5 per cent per annum, and, as respect the applicable 3 year period referred to in subparagraph (iii), be read as a reference to 4.4 per cent per annum, and paragraph (a) shall apply accordingly.”.”. I will not hold up the Minister of State. I flagged this amendment on Second Stage, when I stated that it was an issue we should consider....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...out up to the end of the year, and what is presented as accruals. That is expenditure that has occurred in 2023 but has not been paid. It might be paid in January, February or March 2024, but applies to costs arising from 2023. The Secretary General said he does not have that money for next year so that will be the first charge on his accounts next year. If the Minister has a different...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...do so, amend or delete any particulars entered in the Register. Application to register choice in relation to being relevant organ donor 32. (1) An adult (in this section referred to as the “applicant”) may apply to the Executive to register their choice in relation to being an organ donor of their relevant organs and where they do so, the Executive shall register that...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...éin introduced a motion on nursing homes. The vast majority of nursing home beds are private rather than public. We have not provided anywhere near the number of public beds we need and the same applies to home care. The vast majority of home support is not delivered by HSE personnel but by non-HSE community, voluntary and private for-profit organisations. All the problems are the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding can be applied for by a former worker of a company (details supplied) aged over 50 years who wishes to re-enter third-level education and retrain in a different career following their redundancy after 30 years-plus service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has applied for support funding from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) for the 234 workers in Waterford who lost their jobs at a company (details supplied) and which would allow them to seek assistance with re-joining the labour force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48873/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

David Cullinane: .... They then reported back in November, identified more problems and in fact said it was very disappointing that the work had not been done. The NPHDB then issued a stop notice, essentially, and applied a directive in May of the following year. It then issued a change order where it asked a number of contractors essentially to go into conclave to sort this out. Regarding the change...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jul 2023)

David Cullinane: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the manner by which a person may apply for an intensive homecare package; and the maximum number of hours that may be allocated to a single individual. [33844/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fire Service (4 Jul 2023)

David Cullinane: ...the manner in which a retained firefighter is assessed for jobseeker’s payments; the types of income which are reckonable and the types of income which are not; if there are any exemptions which apply to income earned by retained firefighters for call-out duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...for Health the extent of expenditure on ventilators during the pandemic, in tabular form; the number procured; the procurement process followed by batch; whether exemptions or derogations were applied on a purchase, for each; the spend and volume by vendor; the number purchased via a wholesaler and the number direct from a manufacturer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12243/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...run by the HSE recruitment service on behalf of the National Ambulance Service can be described only as an embarrassment to the National Ambulance Service, an insult to qualified paramedics who applied for the position and, overall, a complete failure. It states that only 9% of eligible candidates were offered a position in the past seven years, after an average time of waiting for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...settled, provided for by the Department. Those are the three homes the Minister referred to. The memo was very clear. There were other residents with the exact same entitlement. The problem is they never applied under the scheme because they were told they were not entitled. They did not appeal decision because obviously they did not apply in the first place. We need to establish who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Then, while we do not know exactly how many, we know that several hundred people applied anyway to the scheme. They were refused and then they appealed and the HSE or the Department's appeals officer upheld their assertion that, in fact, the voluntary contributions on their behalf were recoverable. That was the appeals officer's decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...they hit the jackpot, just happened to be the people who were entitled and that they got paid. The thinking being presented here is that anybody else who was analogous, who did not appeal or apply, were people who were thought of as not entitled to this redress. It strikes me that it just does not work like that. Would Mr. Watt accept that there is a very strong possibility that there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: Does Mr. Watt accept that we need to resolve it and to establish whether or not there were people who would have qualified had they applied under the scheme or had appealed, that their appeal would have been upheld but, because they did not, they simply accepted the judgment of the HSE, which was that they did not qualify. They, therefore, did not make any application. It would be unfair if...