Results 1-20 of 392 for cork speaker:David Cullinane

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: ...not talk about is that in St. Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, we have one linear accelerator, which is closed, and a skin cancer machine that is only working part-time. In University Hospital Cork, we have a linear accelerator and CT scanner that have never been used. A new scanner has arrived in Galway but that still has not been used. All this equipment is lying idle under the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

David Cullinane: ...dragging with the elective-only hospitals. We have not even identified sites in Dublin yet, years after the delivery of those hospitals was promised. We are a long way away from delivering them in Cork and Galway. That will be the real solution to the problem of elective procedures being cancelled.

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

David Cullinane: ...hope that when we build the elective centres, the elective-only hospitals where we will have volume, there will be a lot of elective planned procedures. There are to be four centres: one in Galway, one in Cork and potentially two in Dublin. I hope the centres will separate scheduled care from unscheduled care. I have spoken to senior people in the Department about this. The logic of...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: ...to give the Garda the powers in this Bill but there is a flaw that could be a problem, we obviously have a duty to point it out. We are talking about people who might protest at premises A in Cork and who might end up the following day or a week later in premises B in counties Kerry, Cork or Waterford. That is one problem. There is another problem whereby even at the same premises, if a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-term equivalent tracheotomy nurses in paediatric orthopaedics in Cork University Hospital; and the number of tracheotomy nurses available in CUH. [29955/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

David Cullinane: ...level of service provided has decreased with only 120,000 overnight respite sessions provided in 2022, compared to 160,000 in 2019; and further notes that: - recent closures of respite services in Cork, Wexford, Donegal, and other counties have left hundreds of families with children and adults with disabilities without essential respite care, with only 15 respite beds available for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

David Cullinane: ...about the service plan and the spend of money. We are spending hundreds of millions of euro outsourcing and a lot of that is on management consultancy. We saw what happened in a hospital in Cork recently. We have established a cottage industry, to be honest, of management consultancy and outsourcing where huge amounts of profit are being made. A lot of that should be done in-house. Is...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

David Cullinane: ...our emergency departments in our major acute hospitals. That pressure leads to longer wait times. On average, people are waiting for 11 or 12 hours for admission to a bed. In some hospitals in Cork and Dublin, that can be up to 24 hours. That is all because of the pressures we have in those emergency departments. About 40% of people who are attending emergency departments are...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...is that we have seriously overcrowded hospitals and record numbers of patients on trolleys. People aged over 75 waited, on average, 40 hours in one month last year in our acute hospitals in Cork. That is the backdrop to this debate. People who are waiting for access to care on healthcare waiting lists and all of that is a product of a system that does not seem to be working despite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...that there were 660 people on trolleys yesterday. It is becoming a year-round problem. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has threatened strike action. I understand nurses in Cork are being balloted today. What is the response in the short to medium term to dealing with those challenges in hospitals? I am not just focusing on hospitals; we need to look at all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...and resourced the HSE to deliver 1,228 beds in 2021 and we now see some of them will not now be delivered until 2024, all while we have people waiting for 12 hours or more in emergency departments. In Cork, elderly people are waiting more than 24 hours on average. It is unacceptable. The hospital managers are screaming out for more beds. Will Mr. Gloster give me some insight into this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ..., RTÉ broadcast an edition of "Prime Time" that dealt with the issue of older people who lost their lives in nursing homes. We heard harrowing accounts from relatives of the residents of a home in Cork who lost their loved ones without seeing them. Mams, dads, husbands and wives died, many of them on their own with nobody to hold their hands, while family members looked on through...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...minutes for a life-threatening incident call-out. We should bear in mind that this is a region that does not have 24-7 emergency cardiac care so people depend on the NAS to bring them to Dublin or Cork if they have a cardiac emergency. We know what needs to happen and we have said this to the Minister for some time. We need a comprehensive workforce plan to train and recruit more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste said that the waiting times at Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick are a cause for concern. They are not just a cause for concern, they are completely unacceptable. What is happening is shocking and scandalous. I put it to the Tánaiste that, in his constituency, people over the age of 75 who deserve better and who should be treated with respect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...for more than 15 hours on average. For those over the age of 75, it was a 17-hour wait on average across all hospitals. Some hospitals are performing even worse. In the Tánaiste's constituency in Cork, the average wait time at the emergency departments in the Mercy University Hospital and Cork University Hospital was more than 24 hours. Scandalously, in the month of December...

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

David Cullinane: ...percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, as Mr. Morton will be apparent. People in counties Tipperary and Waterford and other parts of the south east have to travel by ambulance to Dublin or Cork if they have a life-threatening cardiac issue, yet the average response time for emergency calls is now 33 minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...and emergency departments in some hospitals is crazy. I got the following details from a response to a parliamentary question I put to the Minister. The average wait time for patients over 75 in Cork University Hospital in December of last year was 40 hours. Let that sink in; the average wait time for all patients over 75 in a major hospital in this State was over 40 hours. How can...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...but there is also the issue of how we are managing patients in hospitals, which the Minister has recognised. We have to deal with that issue, therefore. I go back to University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital, some of the major hospitals in Dublin, and University Hospital Limerick. The waiting times are too high. It is the same hospitals over and over again. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: 709. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the Mercy University Hospital, Cork on agency staffing and private recruitment firms in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by firm, in tabular form. [7034/23]