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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form the details of all applications for housing projects in each local authority area, where the finance was provided by his Department or by the Housing Finance Agency, in particular applications received from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, 1 January 2023 to 30 April 2023, setting out the number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form details of all applications received from approved housing bodies for housing projects, where the finance was provided by his Department or by the Housing Finance Agency, in particular applications received from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, January 2023 to 30 April 2023, setting out the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I fully accept the Minister of State's commitment to this area, and that of the Government, but there now is a problem. In the Cork area, for example, the amount paid for public nursing home beds is one of the lowest in the country. I fully accept that. However, the increase allowed in Cork for public nursing home beds was 10.4%, whereas the increase for private nursing homes was 2.7%....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I want to raise the issue of the discrimination that is occurring in the moneys being allocated for private nursing homes compared with public nursing homes. As the Minister of State is aware, we have a situation in Cork where a nursing home with 73 beds has decided to withdraw from the fair deal scheme. It is interesting to go through the figures on this. The average cost of a public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Those are the figures and I have a full table for every county. Unless this matter is tackled we will have fewer beds available for people. In the past three months I have been trying to get people out of Cork University Hospital. People were in that hospital three to four months longer than they should have been because they could not get an appropriate bed in a step-down or nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify as to the reason the HSE has not allocated additional nursing support in order that children with complex medical issues can attend school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23434/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the delegates for their presentation. I apologise for not being here for it but I was in the Dáil dealing with a nursing home issue with the Minister. I thank the delegates for the work they are doing in this area. They referred to the appointment of a large number of specialist nurses over the coming years. I am wondering whether they are happy that we have training...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I understand the budget provides for an additional 23 staff. What has happened since the budget announcement as regards their appointment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Ms Rogers has a very good knowledge of what is happening in this area. Is she satisfied that there is a sufficient number of people with the qualifications to apply for the posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Another point concerns the presentations that are made. Everyone considers the cost of hiring someone but no one really considers the savings. Those behind the multiple sclerosis programme launched in the past few months say their net cost is around €880,000 but that the total savings amount to about €19 million. Do we do enough to circulate that information? We focus very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Reference was made earlier to someone having a fall and the sheer cost of dealing with an injury, be it to a hip or another part.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: On rehabilitation, I am not sure whether the delegates are aware that two floors of the new hospital built in Mallow have 40 rooms whose focus is rehabilitation. I am not sure if there has been any discussion with the NAI about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Is the NAI not involved in that? Has it not been advised of what is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I had one person with Huntington's disease and he was in the hospital for at least four months longer than he needed to be, and likewise with someone with other medical issues. It is so difficult to get them out because there is no back-up support in the community then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: On services in the community, if you take someone who has transferred to a nursing home, for instance, do we have that connectivity with the nursing homes as regards rehabilitation as well? One of the concerns I have relates to the likes of that person who has Huntington's disease. He has gone to a nursing home but I am not sure whether there are sufficient structures in place to get him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: When we are talking about neurorehabilitation, is there not a need to build on that link with our community facilities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I mention the community approach and one of the problems I am finding with it is that it is a Monday to Friday approach. There is a need to also develop a service that is available at weekends. I am not talking about a full service but some service should be available at weekends because if somebody has a difficulty during a weekend the next step is to go straight into the accident and...