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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: Is the Secretary General saying that the Department of Health did not send it on to his Department between January and September?

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: My apologies for interrupting the Secretary General. The Secretary General of the Department of Health appeared before this committee and I was advised that the decision on the elective hospital in Cork would be made in mid-October and this is on the public record. The Secretary General is now telling me that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not receive the documentation...

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 will go back to the issue of tenders. There are timeframes within which local authorities have to comply in respect of planning. From the time tenders are accepted and are actually submitted, and where, for instance, there is a deadline set for 1 October for all the tenders to be submitted, what is the deadline within Departments for a Department to come to a decision in respect of to...

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: But does the Secretary General not accept that it is now time to put such a guideline in place?

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: So are planning permissions.

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: There are still timelines with which local authorities still have to comply no matter how complex, and they have to come back with a decision. They may look for further information but I am saying that we have tenders that are sitting in Departments and in the meantime, the cost of doing the project has gone through the roof. Like in the case of the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, 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: I thank the Secretary General.

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 will come back to another health issue, namely, the fair deal scheme and the current disparity between public and private homes. Last weekend, I heard that a private nursing home gets €950 per week per bed, whereas a public nursing home just a little further down the road cost €1,900 per bed per week. The problem at the moment is that private nursing homes are closing and 16...

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: That is not correct. For example, if a private nursing home decides to take in someone today and the health of that person deteriorates over the next three or four years, then the standard of care provided and time required to provide that care will increase but the home does not get any increase in the payments to it in three or four years' time, whereas it is a different scenario in a...

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: Yes.

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: We are concerned that unless nursing homes get some idea about what is going to happen, they will have to close. The responsibility for looking after the people who are now in private nursing homes will then come back to the HSE and the public nursing homes, which may not have capacity. We also have the other problem. For example, I spoke to a person yesterday whose family member has been...

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 Mr. Moloney.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Regarding all these plans for what needs to be done, one of the issues that is not being dealt with by any Department is the workforce requirements for delivery. If we look at the building industry at the moment, its workforce is way below the numbers we had in the period from 2000 to 2008. We cannot deliver a whole lot of projects without having the workforce in place. I do not see any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tackle anti-social behaviour in Irish cities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52459/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the details of the newly launched rural safety plan 2022-2024; the planned outcomes of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52458/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the negotiations between his Department and the medical consultants' representative bodies in respect of the proposed new consultant contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when a site will be identified for the building of a new elective hospital for Cork; the timeline for the design, applying for planning and building of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the action that is being taken by his Department to help keep down the cost of diesel and petrol which is used by the commercial sector, in view of the fact that the suppliers now appear to be operating on a far higher profit margin than any time over the past 20 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the agreements that are in place between the Office of Public Works and local authorities in respect of removing debris and trees which have become trapped in bridges crossing rivers; the action that his Department and the OPW are taking together with local authorities to ensure that there is not an adverse outcome at these bridges as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position in awarding a contract for the Glashaboy flood relief scheme; if he will outline the likely date when the contract will be awarded; when work is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52519/22]