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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Colm Burke: This is the Committee of Public Accounts. We need to have accountability. The second issue which I want to raise, and I have raised this before, is about the delay in getting people out of public hospitals, where nursing homes are prepared to take patients, but they feel that the fair deal scheme will not be adequate because a person needs a higher degree of care than the normal nursing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Colm Burke: I am aware of that. That is not the issue. The issue is where it is clearly identified that the patient needs a higher degree of care than a normal nursing home. There are contracted beds that the HSE has in nursing homes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Colm Burke: In one case, for instance, where there were ten contracted beds, that facility was prepared to take an extra two patients under the contracted beds system, and the HSE would not agree. It wanted to send them off to outside of County Cork, which does not make sense to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Colm Burke: If, however, they went into a public nursing home, it would be costing a lot more anyway. If one is getting €1,000 under the fair deal scheme, and the nursing home says that it would require an extra €350 or €400 per week to look after this patient because they need more staff assigned to them, and a higher degree of care, why can we not? We would get an awful lot of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Colm Burke: A bed there costs €600 more than a bed in Dublin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: Another issue is the lack of co-ordination between the local authorities, Irish Water and the Department. It is crazy. A local authority wants to do one thing but cannot because Irish Water is not in on the overall plan. That is causing a problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: The problem was that there was no money being put in by local authorities to deal with the water services. We are 40 years behind in terms of upgrading. I got a note to my office in Blackpool in Cork the other day. The pipes were being flushed out because some of the steel pipes are more than 100 years old and all the water coming out of them was brown. No upgrade has been undertaken for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: There is also a problem that in the period around 2008, many people who were buying houses were saying they would not have estates taken in charge but would set up management companies to manage the estate and the effluent treatment. Many of those management companies were not set up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: There is also an issue where they were sold at the time because local authorities did not want to get involved in developing new sewage treatment facilities and they allowed the contractors to do it. The contractors got purchasers to sign agreements that they would take responsibility for the management of the estates and of the sewage treatment, but those agreements were never followed through.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: It is now a mess.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is proposed to release the Environmental Impact Statement which has now been completed with regard to the Blackpool flood relief scheme, and which is required to be made available for public consultation before the project can proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21897/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current waiting times for the processing of general employment permits; the number of permits issued per month since 1 January 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22145/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new regulations will come into place which will allow local authorities and approved housing bodies to enter into negotiations with builders for the building of new apartment complexes which will qualify for the incentives under the cost rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22217/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I will return to what Deputy Shortall said about aligning the PPS number and the client identifier number. I am concerned about that and about the timescale. I will give a simple example that happened with me yesterday. Someone had a PPS number that was the same as their husband's, but with the letter "W" added to it. A new PPS number had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Colm Burke: In this case the person was working for a State agency, and the State agency was not given the new PPS number at any stage. I have looked at the payslips for the past five years. Even though this PPS number had been allocated to this person, their employer, which is a State agency, was not made aware of it. I am concerned about how we are now talking about putting client identifier numbers...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Colm Burke: In this case the person was an employee of the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Colm Burke: The Department of Social Protection and the Revenue are dealing with this issue and they had not even put their numbers together. The Department has client identifier numbers and is now talking about PPS numbers. I am concerned about the timeframe for getting that done. Are clear targets going to be set out?