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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations this morning. While they were making those presentations, I received a text from someone who works in a hospital in which a nurse was held on the ground in a headlock and physically choked. She was turning blue when a porter happened to come into the room and helped to get her out of a very difficult situation. What is frightening about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: In other words, out of 5,000 cases or even if we go back to previous years, we do not have any figures on the numbers prosecuted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: What if an assault takes place in a hospital and someone is actually hurt? In this case, I am referring to a situation where a nurse was held in a headlock and there was no Garda prosecution. Surely, there is something wrong with the system. In fairness to that person, if she files a statement with the health authority or HSE, is the HSE as the employer not obliged to make sure there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay, then let us move it on another bit. Every two or three months, we have a joint policing committee meeting between the local authority, the Garda and local public representatives. Is it not now time for the unions together with the HSE and Garda to have joint meetings in a similar way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: It could be taken to a national level. The unions together with the HSE and the Garda authorities need to sit around the table and see what processes can be put in place. Given that we have the same structure with local authorities, which was only set up in the last ten years, why can we not do the same to protect front-line workers in the HSE? Is it not about time we did something like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Has the INMO made a request to the Department, the HSE or the Garda to consider putting in place a mechanism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: I worry that when one-off meetings are held and organisations like those present today appear before the committee, we do not hear about it again for another 12 months. I suggest we set up a structure in the same way that we have done with local authorities, which has been extremely helpful in local communities. Likewise, with such a structure there would not necessarily need to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: We might ask the Health and Safety Authority to join those meetings as well in order that we cover all the angles. It is something for which we should all be looking. As a committee, perhaps we should also write to the Garda authorities on that issue as part of the outcome of this. The second issue I wish to touch on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: One way of dealing with this is to make sure all people are singing from one hymn sheet as regards how we deal with it and how we will reduce the level of both verbal and physical abuse of hospital staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Perhaps it is time we started to look for them to be collated to deal with this issue. These people are providing a level of care for the general public. They are doing their best to deliver a service in the best possible way and they are being hindered from doing so. As people said earlier, it is devastating for someone to go home from work having been assaulted the night or day before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Are the agreed terms being implemented right across the board? Do we still have some facilities where doctors are required to work much longer hours than what has been agreed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider offering financial support to post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics, similar to the support being offered to registered teachers to teach subjects such as mathematics, physics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the home support waiting list for funding and for carers in each month of 2021 and 2022 for each LHO and CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered in each LHO and CHO in 2021 and 2022, compared to the targeted hours of delivery, including the split between directly and indirectly delivered care, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5659/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not including the average length of time waiting for a home support package in national KPI reporting requirements; if consideration has been made for reporting the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5660/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of an application for reimbursement under the Cross Border Healthcare Directive by a person (details supplied); when they will receive reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6006/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the reason students from a college course (details supplied) have been informed that they are now not entitled to the pandemic recognition payment, despite having been previously informed that they would receive the payment, if consideration would be given to granting students from this course who worked in healthcare settings during the pandemic this...