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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Can I just raise one other issue? It is in relation to someone in a private nursing home or even a public nursing home who has gone downhill and where there is huge pressure being applied for that person to be admitted to hospital. I understand that a number of areas around the country now have teams that go out to visit the nursing home, do an assessment and give guidance on how to care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I will raise one final issue about the electronic records. I have come across scenarios where someone is in hospital or care and there are full electronic records in the ward that is dealing with the person. Yet, another section of the hospital will not get involved with the electronic system. Therefore, on the one hand, there is an electronic file and, on the other, there is a manual file...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there not a danger regarding key information when a doctor is on call or if there is a changeover of doctors or nurses? They will come on call, look at the electronic records and will not be aware that there is also a manual file that they are not familiar with. They will therefore rely on what is on the electronic system.

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Department and the Minister, and indeed Bus Éireann, for the work they are doing in trying to resolve the difficulties. The question I have to ask is why it takes until the schools go back after the summer holidays to deal with this. The schools return in September but we are still dealing with problems right up to October and November. We surely should be able to announce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be provided with SEN school transport, in view that it is now over 4 weeks since the school term commenced, and the child still has no transportation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42306/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be published; when they are expected to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42214/23]

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the representatives for giving us their time here this morning, as well as for the work they have done. My question may have already come up because I was out for a short period of time. In 2021, NAMA identified a potential for 7,283 units. In fact, I think the figure that has now been reached is 2,621. Why is there such a difference between the potential that was identified and...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Where are they now?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: They were-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes, but the impression may have been given that only 2,600 have been put into use-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: -----but Mr. McDonagh is now saying that more than 7,000 have been put into use.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay, but is it the case that they are physically in use?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: One of the problems I am coming across is where financial institutions - this is nothing to do with NAMA - have received possession of properties. I have come across at least four properties where the financial institution has had possession of them for more than 15 years and they have remained idle for that 15-year period.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: I know of a number of properties which originally had mortgages with AIB and are now with Everyday Finance. They have all been idle for more than 15 years. Has there been any engagement with the banks, and especially with AIB? I ask this because NAMA came in and assisted AIB. Has there been any engagement with AIB as regards the number of properties they sold on to other financial...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: I have spoken to the local authorities and they are saying they try to engage with the financial institutions and it is a waste of time. They cannot get responses.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: There was one situation where someone contacted me. She moved into a terraced 13 years ago and the house next to her has been vacant for that 13-year period. When I checked it, I found that people bought it in 2002 and a judgment mortgage was marked against it in 2012. It has been vacant for at least 13 years, if not 15 years.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: In the four cases I have they have been vacant 15 years.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: National Asset Residential Property Services, the agency now dealing with the houses in NAMA, was to transfer to the Land Development Agency in 2022. Did that occur?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Mr. McDonagh has not been given any indication as to when that is likely.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: The loan book that would transfer with that-----