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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I ask that formal recognition be given to teachers working in the Cork Life Centre, that funding be provided by the Department for the payment of teachers at the centre, and that the Minister make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I accept that major progress has been made on the provision of funding to the centre. The centre lost eight teachers in June who had an average of six years' experience. At any one time there are 55 students in the centre. These are students who have dropped out of school. I worked with the Blackpool Glen Farranree Community Youth Training Centre where we had full funding. We had more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Could we give serious consideration to increasing the funding for the centre?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I fully understand where the Minister is coming from. My colleague Deputy O'Sullivan has raised the matter with the Minister by way of a Topical Issue debate. Both of us are very concerned about this. We have 55 children there who are being looked after in a very caring way. They are getting education they might not otherwise get. Again, I go back to the facility of which I was chair of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for the reply. I tabled Question No. 88 also on this matter. I refer in particular to the large number of children left without transport in a particular area such as Glenville in my constituency. My concern about that area was that these were children who wanted to go to school in Fermoy. The school authorities from Fermoy attended the primary school and advised that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her long-term plans to address the issue of school bus transport to ensure that all children who require it receive it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50034/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2023 (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if local community centres will be included in the €600 energy credits announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students who completed their Junior Certificate in 2022 will receive their results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49615/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that would be given by his Department and the HSE to screening for vancomycin resistant enterococci in respect of all hospital patients on admission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49845/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank all of our guests here for dealing with the queries that have been raised. I want to move onto an issue that I raised in the Dáil yesterday, which is in relation to the level of claims against the HSE and where we are with that issue. The amount paid out for the level of claims in 2021 was €461 million. That was paid out by the State Claims Agency. Not all of that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I apologise. It was €461 million that was reimbursed to the State Claims Agency in 2021, up from €373 million. That is an increase of €86 million in 12 months.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Looking at how medical negligence is dealt with in other countries, is there a need to look at a policy change in this area? Can we manage it in a better way while making sure that where errors are made, people are adequately provided for? Is it not time to review the whole process rather than having what we have now where claims can go on for long periods of six, seven or eight years...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: In other countries, an annual payment is made rather than a lump sum, so it is ongoing. It goes back to the issue of children who suffered as a result of thalidomide. While they got compensation, it was in no way adequate in real terms. I have heard of a number of cases where substantial compensation was paid out and within a very short period people passed away unfortunately. There is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: The money paid out to the various section 38 and 39 organisations amounted to €5.7 billion in 2021. That is a huge slice of the HSE budget. There are more than 2,300 of these organisations and it is not physically possible to audit every one of them. They obviously have proper systems in place. In any one year, how many of the 2,300 organisations' accounts would the HSE go and review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Let us say the HSE goes into 50 organisations in any one year. In how many of those would it find that not all the checks and balances are in place and not everything is being done by the rules?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: A lot of these organisations are in very much the same area. Has any effort been made to have organisations work more closely together and maybe amalgamate them in order to create greater efficiencies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Is a proactive approach being taken in encouraging people and organisations to work more closely together in order to deliver a better service more efficiently?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the review of the Global Ireland Strategy which commenced at the end of 2021; if this review will alter the objectives of the strategy going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has been made to date on the Passport Service Reform Programme; if the roll-out of the programme is on target; when the programme will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions that his Department will undertake in relation to the recruitment of women into the Defence Forces in 2023 as per the recommendations set out in the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces and in line with Defence Forces recruitment objectives announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48632/22]