David Cullinane
Two-thirds of public hospitals have unsafe bed-occupancy levels in first half of 2025
Occupancy at 95.9% nationally in the first six months of the year, where 85% considered the limit, new figures show
Doubts grow that planned State elective hospitals will be built before 2030s
Minister did not secure sufficient funding to pay for all key health projects, says Sinn Féin
Family of recently deceased boy Harvey Morrison Sherratt to meet Simon Harris
Scoliosis patient (9) faced delays in waiting for surgery
Cost of hiring agency staff in hospitals hit €380m last year
HSE says high spend was despite intensive recruitment efforts, but David Cullinane criticises figures as ‘completely unacceptable’
Inquiries under way into further allegations around waiting list initiatives at Children’s Health Ireland
Public Accounts Committee and Minister hears that consultant paid €40,000 in 2018 to treat patients on his waiting list at private hospital
HSE paid one firm €54m over 27 months for services to tackle waiting lists in public hospitals
Three firms involved in insourcing received more than €70m in total, new HSE report shows
Saturday outpatient appointments at Crumlin hospital surge by 240%
Concerns raised about overreliance on appointments paid for by National Treatment Purchase Fund
Hospital endoscopy procedures are increasingly being done at weekends
Health service trying to accommodate more patients outside traditional weekday hours
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill in the spotlight as health controversies intensify
Fears rolling issues involving children’s hospital services and others could dominate the political agenda over the summer
‘A load of bull’ that Sinn Féin is on the side of working people, Tánaiste says
Simon Harris claims Sinn Féin is the ‘wealthiest party’ and property owner in the Dáil
Fund set up by Micheál Martin 20 years ago to cut hospital waiting lists under fresh scrutiny
Questions raised over governance and transparency of waiting list initiatives after hospital controversies
Oireachtas health committee must hear from HSE on Portiuncula maternity services, says Opposition
‘Questions need to be asked now about what exactly is going on here,’ says Labour health spokesperson as 10 reviews ongoing
There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces
UK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct
Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane backtracks on comments welcoming UK ruling defining the term ‘woman’
Politician deletes social media post hailing landmark United Kingdom ruling
Why is Irish social media star Garron Noone at the heart of a controversy on immigration?
Tiktok personality is known for more light-hearted online content
Waterford constituency candidates list: Fine Gael will be gunning to retake a seat here
Election 2024: Sinn Féin has chance at second seat in home of one of its highest vote-getters David Cullinane
Sinn Féin seeks distance from scandal - and the solution is policy, policy, policy
David Cullinane’s health policy runs to 120 pages with big reform promises and a proposed €4.4 billion increase in budget
Sinn Féin proposing free prescriptions for all if elected to Government
Election 2024: Sinn Féin to launch new healthcare policy as it fights to regain momentum
Dáil votes by 76 to 53 to accept assisted dying report after Coalition parties allow free vote
Motion says that House will takes note of document which made 38 recommendations as some TDs oppose legislation
HSE awarded €500m worth of tenders to external companies in past eight years, figures show
Consultancy firm Ernst and Young was paid a total of €33.5m by health service in 2023 for orders over €100,000
Minimum smoking age to rise to 21 in new Bill as Opposition warns more action needed on vaping
Minister says legislation is ‘end-game measure, signalling beginning of the end of tobacco in our country’
What is behind the decline in support for Sinn Féin?
The party soared on opposition to Government policy on housing but it faces a huge challenge in its positioning on immigration
‘Major vulnerabilities’ in Temple Street neonatal critical care, doctors warn management
Dublin hospital is ‘failing to meet the specific needs’ of newborns requiring intensive care, doctors say
Sinn Féin TD says he does not think any republican ‘shed a tear’ at death of garda-killer McAuley
David Cullinane agrees with Garda Commissioner that draping of flag on McAuley’s coffin was ‘outrageous’
Number of people waiting for disability services has risen sharply since 2019
HSE acknowledged ‘significant unmet need’, with Sinn Féin calling for ‘massive’ funding increase
Public cancer patients being offered treatment that is second best to one in private system, conference hears
Minister for Health tells medicines industry conference he has sanctioned 34 new hires to speed up vetting process for new treatments
Patients waiting over two years for access to EU- approved medicines
Irish approvals process delays mean public patients forced to wait for new therapies already available to private patients
‘Up to 2,000’ children born through surrogacy awaiting formal recognition of parentage
Retrospective recognition the most significant part of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, says Donnelly
Catherine Martin willing to give statements to Dáil on recent RTÉ developments
The Minister for Media will also appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee on Tuesday
Stephen Donnelly casts doubt on National Children’s Hospital completion date
Minister for Health also suggested ‘supplementary budget’ could be needed by the health service this year
Miriam Lord’s political awards for 2023
Gongs go to Timmy Dooley, Mary Robinson, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, Louise O’Reilly, Thomas Pringle, Michael Collins, Mary Lou McDonald and Helen McEntee, but will they be thrilled?
How Sinn Féin is pivoting as it anticipates power in the Republic
State’s main opposition party - consistently topping opinion polls - is tinkering with its stances on tax and foreign policy as it seeks to present itself as a party of Government
No way of recording ‘warnings’ issued to protesters outside abortion clinics, Committee told
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly says it would not be appropriate for him to be involved in regulating Garda operational matters
‘Savings and efficiencies’ needed in health budget, senior officials acknowledge
Robert Watt, secretary general of the Department of Health, says productivity gains are needed in health service
Drip-feeding funding: The politics of not budgeting for runaway health spending
Tensions have bubbled up inside - and outside - Government and among senior civil servants in the fallout from a new budget that did not budget for massive health spending overruns
Stephen Donnelly promises ‘in-depth report’ on future costs of healthcare after budget row
HSE chief said last week the health allocation was ‘not adequate for all current costs’
No plans to reopen health service budget allocations, says Donohoe
Budget allocation will have ‘catastrophic implications’ for patients and those who work on the front line of health service, says Sinn Féin
Gerry Adams at 75: What role now for Sinn Féin’s former president?
A ‘man about the parish’ or ‘extremely active’ - party members weigh up the part currently played by the former politician
We ‘will in our arse’ have an Irish NHS
An ‘Irish NHS’ is an oft-repeated pledge from Sinn Féin. But is it a threat or a promise?
Treatment abroad must be re-introduced for children awaiting spinal surgery, says SF health spokesman
David Cullinane says it is ‘infuriating’ for waiting families that capacity has now been reduced due to crisis
Temple Street: Publish full details from scoliosis surgery reports immediately, legal adviser says
Minister says children were failed at the hospital and it should never happen again
Contacts between scoliosis patients and doctors to be managed differently
Operational change on way after Ombudsman for Children highlights teenager’s five-year wait for surgery
Children’s spinal surgery may be outsourced abroad as waiting list doubles
Children’s Health Ireland apologises to children and their families as new figures show waiting lists approaching five-year high
Inside Sinn Féin: Who really makes the big decisions in Ireland’s most popular party?
Unelected people are prominent and important in the leadership and decision-making processes of Sinn Féin
Opposition parties call on Coalition to reveal new finish date for children’s hospital
Government figures remain tight-lipped as board mulls over new programme of work for national children’s hospital
New children’s hospital board says design changes not to blame for costly delays
Documents also reveal that more than 300 doors in the hospital may have to be replaced or demolished
Stephen Donnelly says ‘nobody right now’ knows final cost of national children’s hospital
Minister for Health accuses Sinn Féin of ‘playing politics’, saying providing estimated cost could open State to further claims
Almost 1,000 hospital consultant posts not filled, with some vacant for years, figures show
Over one-fifth of all posts had no permanent incumbent last month, a significant increase on 2021
HSE on course for a €1.6bn deficit this year
Board members warned that this figure could change as the year goes on
Children’s Hospital insists works on 11 operating theatres ‘minor’ and will not delay opening
Main contractor BAM told last month to stop works in theatres as mediation works could be needed in ceilings
Children’s hospital lead contractor told to stop key works on half of facility’s operating theatres
Claims that fresh NCH setback could cost tens of millions to address, while Department of Health downplays development
Government not putting review of abortion law on ‘long finger’, Dáil told
Immediate priority must be to expand availability of termination in hospitals and tackling ‘uneven geographic spread’ of GPs providing services, Tánaiste says
Health service stubbornly resistant to change, cancellation figures underline
Flaw in Minister for Health’s thinking is to believe the system can be improved without comprehensive reform or upsetting vested interests
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