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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Hold on a second. Surely if we get through design and planning by this time next year, it should not take another four years to build them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I am concerned about the target date of 2028. Why can we not bring that forward? At least that would keep the pressure on. The letter I received is dated 25 April. This is the thinking at national level in the HSE. That is not acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Can the paediatric unit that has full planning be expedited?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that. I know there are challenges in getting staff. Can the conditions of employment of home care workers be reviewed with a view to trying to make it more attractive to come into that area? I fully accept that it is a challenge for management to get staff. Is it now time to look at the conditions, pay and all the issues relating to home care to see if we can encourage more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleague from Cork North-Central. I happen to have been chairperson of Blackpool Community Centre a number of years ago - in fact, when we applied for planning permission for a community centre in Ballyvolane. Unfortunately, however, there were so many local objections that it never got planning. I think the mistake that was made in Ballyvolane was about a site not being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I have been involved in a particular project with a number of community groups. The problem is that the route cuts across two local authorities. It is about getting co-operation. One is Cork City Council, the other is Cork County Council and the issue is whether it can be co-ordinated between the two. There must be buy-in by both authorities. It is a well-developed project by a small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. I very much welcome all the work that the Department is doing in town and village renewal to date but also that the Minister plans to have completed in 2023. I am wondering about the co-ordination between the Department and the local authorities because I have come across one issue recently in relation to the vacant property grant where an application was submitted...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: -----which would allow the local authority to buy and to sell again to the person who wants to develop because it would rectify the title issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I very much welcome the funding the Minister has outlined for Cork. As my colleague from Cork, Deputy Stanton, clearly outlined, it is a huge county. There are lots of towns and villages throughout the place. It is important, therefore, that there is co-ordination and that where communities have a real drive on to renew and revitalise their area, there is no hurdle put in their way which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 114. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when local groups in Cork will be able to apply for funding under the town and village renewal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19401/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 88. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will announce successful projects under the Community Support Fund in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19400/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a Standards Working Group which was convened to examine the various guidance and standards documents (details supplied) which should be taken into account by local authorities when constructing new walking and cycling infrastructure to ensure that this infrastructure is designed safely and efficiently in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a Standards Working Group convened by his Department plans to examine the MacCurtain Street public transport improvement scheme, currently being implemented by Cork City Council as part of its review, to ensure that the local authority is in line with the various guidelines and standards documents (details supplied) which should be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for oxycodone as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, in tabular form. [19580/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the governor for coming before the committee and for his presentation. In his statement on the insurance compensation fund, he said the role of Revenue is the collection of the contributions from insurers. In real terms, however, those contributions that the insurers pay is collected from the taxpayers. Am I right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: No, there is a 2% levy-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: -----put on insurance taken out by people. While the insurers can transfer the money, it is actually money collected by the insurers from the taxpayers. Am I correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes, but they are taxpayers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: In real terms, it is the ordinary person on the ground who is paying those contributions.