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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Looking at all of the figures in the opening statement, I reminded myself that there are real people behind them who need access to services. Whether that is the neurological teams in the community or the specialist beds, or the neurological nurses across the counties mentioned, there are people depending on these services. The first issue I raise is the specialist nurse positions. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Cullinane: There is a shortage of at least 100 specialist nursing posts. There was funding for 21, which is only a fifth of what is needed. Even at that, 13 of those posts have not been delivered and have been held up behind because of the embargo. That is the situation as of today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Cullinane: It has identified the need for 300 beds, but only about one third of those are in place. That is a common pattern. It is the same with specialist nurses, where we have one third, or perhaps even less, of what is needed. It is the same for the teams. The whole area is under-resourced. I go back to what I said at the start of the meeting, namely that there are real people behind that who...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

David Cullinane: We support reform of HIQA’s enforcement powers. HIQA’s current enforcement powers are blunt and we have been saying that for some time. We will support the Bill but the Government has been far too limited in its approach. I met HIQA officials on a number of occasions in recent years on many of these matters. The Bill provides for compliance notices for the Chief Inspector of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 513. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at St. James’s University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20234/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at St. Vincent’s University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20235/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 515. To ask the Minister for Health the average time spent waiting by a patient at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital who was admitted on a trolley between a bed being allocated for them and that bed becoming available for the patient and the patient moved into that bed, in tabular form. [20236/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with Mr. Watt. I have a lot of questions and may not get through them all. First, I am looking for a straight answer and a figure, if he has it, on spending for the first four months of 2024. Is it at profile, behind profile or ahead of profile? Is there a figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: A less diplomatic answer would be the health service did not get the budget it needed for 2024 and we are now seeing the fruits of that. Four months in and it is already €500 million short of profile. Is it at this point a racing certainty there will be significant Supplementary Estimates in health by the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I make the general point I have raised at this committee and publicly that funding for existing levels of service for health in 2024 was grossly underestimated. The deficit for last year was quite significant and very little of that was put into the base for 2024. It was always going to be the case we would quickly see spending ahead of profile in health, and that is what we are seeing. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ..., a commitment was given to build a centre of excellence in Limerick. Closing three emergency departments and having one emergency department servicing the region clearly has not worked if we look at all the issues that have arisen. Of course we need additional capacity in Limerick. We need to broaden our horizons and look more holistically at the mid-west region. I say that honestly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness: Department of Health (8 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I have several questions. One is on public health measures and that they would still be the competency of the member state, for example, lockdowns and other public health responses. My other questions is on vaccines. At present they are not mandatory and nobody is asking for them to be mandatory. There is some online commentary that this is what the treaty is about and the purpose of my...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The problem is that for many parents and many children that is not happening. A number of weeks ago I raised the case of Aiveen , a young child with early-onset scoliosis. Her family crowdfunded for her to go to America to get specialist treatment. She got that and is now doing very well. She certainly did not get the support from the HSE. Her family had to depend on the public coming in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I am all for reform in that hospital and every other hospital, but I was one of those members, including Deputy Crowe, who attended the briefing for the Oireachtas health committee. We met with the head of the HSE and clinicians, hospital management and healthcare trade unions. All of them, to a man and a woman, told us that the big problem in Limerick is capacity. We need reforms but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: Despite all of the talk that comes from Government and the Minister regarding record investment, record staff, record capacity and all of that, we have children who are waiting. Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of Liam Dennehy, who has been left waiting more than five months for his surgery. Unfortunately, his spinal curvature is going in the wrong direction. I also raised,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: 3. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit funding to 288 additional acute inpatient beds at University Hospital Limerick, UHL; the timeline for the full implementation of the coroner's recommendations following an inquest (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19773/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. My first question is for Mr. O'Flynn. We met to discuss some of these issues some time ago. I thank him for that engagement and for his attendance today at the committee. Proper regulation is not a lot for which to ask. In fact, a lot of people would be amazed that we do not have proper regulation of dentistry, including a statutory code of conduct, and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: That is something the committee can follow up on. The Minister is working on a number of health (miscellaneous) Bills. Perhaps he intends for one of those Bills to deal with this. We can take the matter up with him. I thank Mr. O'Flynn. We need to get those changes. I thank the Dental Council for the work it does. Mr. O'Flynn stated earlier that "the members of the current council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...to a parliamentary question I received on this issue. I asked the Minister about his plans to increase the number of dentists working in the public service. The response came from the assistant national director for oral health. She says that the recruitment embargo is still in place and that relates to the number of staff employed by the HSE. She also states that the embargo does not...

Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Health Act 2004 and for that purpose to provide for the conferral of additional functions on the Minister for Health in relation to setting of priorities and performance targets by that Minister in relation to maximum waiting times for health and personal social services; to amend the National...