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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: ...European Union? If the proposal is to reduce data exclusivity from eight years to six years, albeit with the caveat that Mr. O'Connor has given on the buyback, whatever about where it eventually lands, is it possible the State could seek a derogation in this area and state we want to make this call?

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (21 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: .... We want it to be as effective as possible. We had different opinions from different organisations and a debate on opt-in, opt-out and how all of that was going to work. In my view, we have now landed on a position where we need to give it time to work. Let us put it in place, let us pass this Bill and let us give it time to work and we will have a chance in the future to come back to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: ...in a situation where we will not have a chief officer and a hospital manager and what we will have is a lead for IHAs that will cover both community and acute. Is that ultimately where we want to land?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's offer of a two-storey modular unit for a school (details supplied) will impact the school's application to build on adjacent land recently purchased for her Department by Waterford City and County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47858/23]

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: ...that have been made over the past few decades in improving life expectancy in this State. In 2021, life expectancy at birth stood at 82 years. This is obviously a positive feature of life in Ireland and demonstrates how far we have come since independence. It is also important to recognise this progress, part of which is to do with improvements in innovations in health, new medicines...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: We told the Government that it should be building public houses on public land. It ignored us. There is a report from the Land Development Agency which states that 60,000 homes could and should have been built. However, the Government did not do that. It did not do it because it failed. We were again proven right that public homes could and should have been built on public land. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: ...in September this year and that there is currently no additional classroom available to accommodate this teacher and their class; if she will do all in her power to expedite the acquisition of land and approval of funding that will allow for a solution to be out in place in time for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11731/23]

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

David Cullinane: ...to say. I will home in on a few issues in my constituency of Waterford. I have raised all of these issues with the Minister previously but they have not been resolved. The first issue is that the landing rights for British and northern registered vehicles in Dunmore were removed in December 2020 following the Brexit trade and co-operation deal. I have raised the issue with the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

David Cullinane: ...on private agencies. Outsource, outsource, outsource is the Government's plan, rather than building capacity in the public system. The Government is building a new national maternity hospital on land the State does not own. Front-line healthcare workers are exhausted and burnt out, yet there is no joined-up workforce plan and no plan to stem the tide of emigration of those in...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...absolutely breathtaking and amazing to see the lengths to which the Government will go to sell what I see as a bad deal. The repeated assertion that black is white and that the State will own the land, when, clearly, the freehold of that land will be retained and owned by the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, is quite amazing. Those who make that argument know exactly the point we are...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...to the undefined and ambiguous "clinical appropriateness" test, which many clinicians, legal professionals and women have raised concern over due to its ambiguity and the potential for Court action by the landlord or by a third party which may disagree with the Health Service Executive (HSE) or NMH's interpretation at some point in the duration of the 299-year lease; and - all activities...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...maternity services as we go forward. I also want to see a new national maternity hospital. I want to see it built by the State, managed by the State and owned by the State, including the land. Why? I will go back to what the Minister said to me last week when I asked him this question. He stated; "My position...has always been that I would prefer public ownership and to own the...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: When I asked them who owned the land, they said the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...did not interrupt. I would give way to him if that was allowed. My point is that I had those discussions with them. I put very direct questions to them, and they were very clear that the landowners were St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and that there was a lease arrangement in place between the HSE and St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. I put it to them very directly. Who owns the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Okay. Can I come to the ownership of the land? In his opening statement, Mr. Menton said that St. Vincent's Healthcare Group owns the land, which is true. Is it correct to say that the group owns the freehold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: Mr. Menton said in his opening statement, and I have no reason to dispute this at all, that the land was transferred to the group. Mr. Menton said: "The April 2022 transfer of the RSC's SVHG shareholding to SV Holdings ... was the last formal step in the reaching the Board's objective of becoming a truly secular organisation". Mr. Menton also said that there were no preconditions in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...of any nature, apart from the ones that Mr. Menton has cited, which are quite technical. There are no preconditions. So, essentially the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is the sole owner of the land to do with the land what it pleases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: The group could dispose of the land and make decisions around the land, and it is in the gift of the board to make a decision, if it so wanted, to gift the land to the State, if that is what they wanted to do. There is no legal reason that cannot be done. There is no block from the Sisters of Charity and there are no preconditions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: As Mr. Menton will understand, it is a very clear question. It is an issue that many people have raised. I will go through in a few moments this arrangement that we have landed on. Mr. Menton has spoken about the impossibility of managing what I assume he means to be a HSE hospital on the grounds of Elm Park where there is a private hospital and a voluntary hospital. I am not sure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

David Cullinane: ...now being put up, which is the first time I have heard this. Up to now we have been told by St. Vincent's Healthcare Group that the reason there is a reluctance on the group's part to transfer the land to the State is because of the need for the integrated campus.