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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way and when parents can avail of the indicated 25% average reduction in childcare fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56908/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to removing VAT from the supply and installation of solar panels to assist those who wish to be more eco-friendly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been made for an ASD class by a school (details supplied) given that over 20 children from the area have had to go to schools in other areas due to the lack of an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57059/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has liaised with a school (details supplied) on the possibility of providing an ASD class given that over 20 children from the area have had to go to schools in other areas due to the lack of an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the planned €500 disability support grant announced in Budget 2023 will be amended to include those who were in receipt of the disability allowance but have moved to FET training allowance given that these families and the organisations supporting them anticipated they would be eligible for the grant and had...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the dates that the manufacturer of evusheld initially offered availability of the treatment in Ireland and applied for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56868/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses for coming before the committee and for setting out a comprehensive plan to deal with challenges facing all our hospitals in the coming months. There are problems which, if they were resolved, it would deal with some of the issues arising in hospitals. For instance, I have come across hospitals where consultants cannot hold clinics because nursing staff are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Will Mr. Mulvany make enquiries about that issue? I am told there is resistance to allowing the clinics to be held because nurses are not available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Mulvany accept that someone having only a half day per week in an operating theatre is not adequate from a consultant's point of view? Consultants now have no choices because they cannot get access to a theatre any other day of the week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I accept that, but they have no choice in this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Consultants do not have a choice if they cannot get access to a theatre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we have discussions with hospitals where this problem arises to find a solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Looking at is one thing; we have a problem where theatres are not taking people after 4 p.m. Operations are being cancelled, people are occupying beds and then being discharged and brought back in another day. It is taking up huge administration time and everyone's time. We should look at this immediately and not be trying to devise a plan that comes into place in March next year. We are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I am not looking for people's eight-hour day to be extended to 12 hours. If you are in theatre, it is a demanding job. Errors can arise in a long day if people are working for too long. Surely we can restructure the time people start and finish. That may suit some people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Can this issue be prioritised, as regards throughput through the hospitals, rather than cancellations occurring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we get a report back on what progress is made on that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I was recently speaking to a nurse who moved to London and the big change she saw working in London was that, no matter what day she worked in a hospital, there was a set ratio of senior nurses to junior nurses. She had worked in a unit where there were 20 nurses. One day, there would be two senior nurses and 18 junior nurses or nurses qualified within the last two years. The next day, she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: What about for accident and emergency departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: This should be in place already. If there is a situation where there are 18 junior nurses on with two senior nurses in an accident and emergency department, in fairness to the nurses, they do not have the same expertise and therefore decision making is a slower process. This should be in place now, particularly going into the winter plan, so that there is better turnover and a faster...