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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: We thought that would happen with the HSE when we created one structure and moved away from the health board structure. In fact, the number of people in administration grew substantially meaning that we had the opposite result. Will we have the same thing here when we go back to six different structures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: When the health service needed to deal with Covid, it provided services very well. We need to do what Mr. Kearns is saying and bring everyone with us because that is exactly what happened with Covid. Management, medical people, nursing staff, care assistants and everybody else worked extremely hard to deliver. We can deliver a very efficient service, but we need to ensure the leadership is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I raise the issue of private nursing homes and the challenges they are facing. Sixteen private nursing homes have closed in recent months and a number of others are considering closing. That is because of what they are allowed. There was a comment recently to the effect that a nursing home that closed was getting €950 per week per bed under the fair deal scheme, while a public...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that his Department is currently accepting new employment permit applications for the role of dairy farm assistant, in view of the fact that dairy farmers are having difficulty in recruiting employees; if the quota has been filled for this role; if so, when his Department will be accepting new applications; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement that has occurred between National Broadband Ireland and third-party broadband companies in relation to providing additional fibre broadband infrastructure to premises that do not have a fibre broadband connection in place and are situated in the amber area in which the private operators have capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the roll-out of broadband by National Broadband Ireland to over 670 schools across the country; if additional broadband hubs will be put in place in community facilities in rural areas in which broadband connectivity will not be in place in homes and businesses for at least another three years; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that farmers are to be included in the temporary business energy support scheme; when they can expect to benefit from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 589. To ask the Minister for Health when the new extension of a facility (details supplied) which is fully completed with 60 additional beds, will be fully operational; if the required number of nurses, care assistants, porters and administrative staff have been recruited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 590. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the Golf Links Hotel in Blarney, County Cork, which was purchased by the HSE for the provision of step-down beds, will be completed; when it is envisaged that this facility will be fully staffed and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52799/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in detail the number of additional step down-beds that will become available in each of the HSE operational areas from 1 November 2022, given that there will be increased pressures in the hospital services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the current position in respect of the discharge of patients from hospitals to step-down facilities in cases in which the patient or their immediate family are given no say by the HSE in respect of which step-down facility they are transferred to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when successful businesses will be awarded funding under the second call of the Brexit impact loan scheme for those in the agri-food sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the investment by his Department in research and innovation that is focused on the delivery of climate action and solutions for farmers, particularly with regard to supporting farmers in achieving the 25% target of lowering greenhouse gas emissions for the agriculture sector by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 809. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of grant funding that will be made available for businesses under the streetscape enhancement scheme to assist with the upgrade and enhancement of shop fronts; the number of towns that have been selected to date under the scheme by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53471/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for coming in today. My apologies for arriving late but I had other meetings to attend. On the overall expenditure by the Government, part of that expenditure is funding that is provided by the relevant Departments to local authorities. Does the Department believe there is enough scrutiny of how local authorities use that money? I know they are accountable to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Have there been cases where the Department has expressed concern in relation to the allocation of funding, and it not necessarily being used in the area that it was assigned to? I know there is a local government auditor but have concerns been raised with the Department in relation to this issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: In the discussion earlier, some of my colleagues raised the issue of value for money. One of the problems that is arising now is the timeframe from the time a project is started to the time it finally gets approval. For instance, the documentation on the new elective hospital for Cork was submitted by the South/Southwest Hospital Group in January, and we still do not have a decision from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: If one takes the elective hospital issue which I am raising here, we are ten months on and we have no decision. We are now talking about a completely different budget to what we were talking about ten months ago, and we still do not get an explanation as to why it is taking so long. Some clarification needs to be given as to why projects are taking so long. I am aware of another project,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I fully understand that but the problem I have is that on this elective hospital issue, it has taken ten months. The decision had been made that we need it but the two Departments have not signed off on it. We have not even gone to planning stage or started that process. Why does it take ten months to come to a decision where everyone already accepts that we need to build this hospital and...