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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: The level of care that can be provided in a nursing home is every bit as good as in hospital, provided the proper advice is given to the staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: Can I raise one other issue? We have a huge challenge with home help at the moment. I have come across a number of people who are retired in the Cork region. Some 1,800 people were employed there by the HSE during the Covid-19 pandemic. We suddenly lost 400 people. Some of the people who retired and are receiving pensions have been advised that if they come back to work, their pensions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: Could I get a note on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: I have been looking for clarification of that. It would be helpful because I know a number of people who would not mind coming back to work. They want to provide the service but feel they are not being facilitated at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: I accept that. Finally, where are we on trying to get more people to provide homecare? It is about keeping people out of hospital. It has been very effective in providing that support.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 168. To ask the Minister for Health when a wheelchair will be provided to a child (details supplied) given an occupational therapist has approved same to the HSE resource allocation group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28794/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department is taking to ensure that price gouging does not occur under energy grant schemes, including the deep retrofit grant scheme and the solar PV grant scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 450. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to including agricultural mechanics, construction plant fitters and heavy vehicle mechanics in his Departments critical skills occupations list, in view of the critical shortage of qualified mechanics in the farm machinery industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications for roof repairs and reconfiguration of two rooms for a school (details supplied) will be processed, in view of the fact that these are urgently required to accommodate 41 children enrolled for September in the school, which has recently become co-educational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27459/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to permitting second level students with a diagnosis of dyslexia additional time in the exam hall to complete their junior certificate and leaving certificate examination papers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the number of people who are on the live register in each town in County Cork; the number of people on the live register for more than 24 months in each town in County Cork; the number of people who have been referred to the local area employment service in each town in County Cork since...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to the review of the current means test requirement for the additional needs/exceptional needs' payment for children, adolescent and young adults (CAYA) cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28241/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 838. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to expanding the criteria for the household benefits package to include all cancer patients upon diagnosis until treatment is finished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28243/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 839. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing a new statutory payment for employees and self-employed people with chronic illnesses to attend medical appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28246/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 924. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the application status of a person (details supplied) to the Afghan Admissions Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration would be given to increasing direct payments per sheep under the sheep improvement scheme which is a targeted scheme for sheep farmers, in order to provide much-needed additional support to sheep farmers, encourage young farmers to enter and continue sheep farming, and ensure that this type of farming is viable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to support the farm machinery industry, in view of the current critical shortage of qualified mechanics in the farm machinery industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27579/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 1104. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the progress that has been made to date in developing the project of a new paediatric department in Cork University Hospital; the work that will be undertaken in relation to this project in the remainder of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27062/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the reason that a person (details supplied) who has a diagnosis of paranoid schizoaffective disorder, dementia and several other physical health difficulties including a visual impairment, COPD, hypertension and arthritis and has been a patient of St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview, Dublin, for the past two and a half years, has not had their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 1251. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to altering the salary pay scale of radiation therapists, details supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28222/23]