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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria for companies to avail of the Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme; if his attention has been drawn to reports that Enterprise Ireland is advising companies that they must be clients of Enterprise Ireland to avail of the scheme when no such condition exists under the terms of the scheme approved by the European Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the current position in respect of properties acquired in Cork city by his Department or by companies or organisations working with his Department in the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, or refugees from Ukraine; if he will set out in full the number of properties currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when funding will be made available for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that when the new five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities is constructed, it will include an intensive care unit that can take care of very seriously ill children who can be cared for in a timely manner without having to be transported at a crucial time; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when the project for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities can proceed to the next stage, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a refund scheme which would allow persons (details supplied) who have to rent medical equipment such as breathing assistance machines to receive repayments of the monies which are due to them for the cost of the use of these machines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20483/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to expedite the processing of applications for medical card holders in the south-east CH05 area who require care under the HSE community ophthalmic services scheme for persons who require eye examination and optical appliances, in view of the fact that the processing of these applications is taking anything up to eight weeks...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank Ms Buckley very much indeed for her presentation and for the information she provided to the committee. I very much appreciate it. I wish her every success in her new role, as well as the people who are appointed to assist her in dealing with the very difficult tasks. A newspaper report recently mentioned 27,000 residential housing units pending a decision. There is much...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Outside of judicial review, Ms Buckley would hope that all these would be dealt with.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Are particular SID projects, for instance, being prioritised? There are two in particular involving the interconnector between the UK and Ireland. Where are those two applications at this stage on whether a decision will be made one way or the other?

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that there are some applications before the board involving infrastructure development where if the decision is not taken within a particular period, European funding will not be made available.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I fully understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: The other issue I am referring to is where European funding is available and it is dependent on a decision from the board. If that decision is not taken within a particular period, funding will not be available. Again, this relates to important infrastructure.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I would like to go back to the issue of judicial reviews. We have seen the table for 2017 to 2022. There were 226 cases taken. The number of cases that An Bord Pleanála won is 52. I know the awarding of costs is dependent on the court but in any of those 52 cases, has An Bord Pleanála been awarded costs and have costs been collected? Even in the past year, An Bord Pleanála...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Out of 52 cases, it is a very small amount.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: The number of cases lost in that six-year period was 31. Quite a number of cases were conceded as well. The impression of the public is that a far higher number of cases is being lost by An Bord Pleanála. Is there a need for the board to get the message out there that the decisions that have been made, in fairness, have been robust and that it is quite prepared to fight these cases...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Ms Buckley is obviously hoping that the legal person being appointed to the board will remove some of those issues.

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: We have not been given any figures on cases going from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court. Can we get details of those at some stage? I know Ms Buckley will probably not be able to give them to us today. The other thing I wanted to touch on was the cases withdrawn. A total of 54 cases that were initiated and then subsequently withdrawn. Is there a problem...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I accept that. That is what I am saying.