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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Elimination of Hepatitis C: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: In the Hepatitis C Partnership's engagement with the HSE, has it made any commitment in relation to putting that kind of structure in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Elimination of Hepatitis C: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: We face a challenge in trying to meet that 2030 target.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am concerned about this. It reminds me of the 1980s when there was a long, drawn-out process for getting loans. We are back to square one. We are in a world where the market is moving very fast and we must respond accordingly. It is like with the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme where landlords have started saying that if somebody is drawing the HAP, they would not take the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for being here at this late hour. This is an important issue. I have come across a number of people who have applied to their respective local authorities for loans. The process seems to be cumbersome and drawn-out. To give an example, I we contacted by a couple who applied for a loan over six months ago. They were advised by the local authority that they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I wish to follow on from what was said earlier in response to another question from Deputy Stanton about the use of the compulsory purchase mechanism. In cases where property owners have defective title, I have seen that mechanism used by Cork City Council. The property owner engages with the council, the council serves a derelict sites order and rectifies the title problems through the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I referred to the use of the derelict sites orders.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the work she has done on this issue, including in my constituency of Cork North-Central. We have a hub in both Whitechurch and Courtbrack. As a result of her intervention in engaging with private enterprise, a hub has also been put into Inniscarra community centre, which serves a large population. Although my constituency is largely a city one, it also...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be a further round of local improvement scheme funding in 2022; if there is an update on whether the Department of Transport will match funding for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 47. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the town and village renewal scheme will open for applications; the types of projects that will be eligible for funding in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27622/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 744. To ask the Minister for Health when a full list of eligibility criteria for the pandemic special recognition payment will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with other Government Departments in respect of the delivery of farm safety programmes and initiatives in schools at both primary and secondary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work that his Department is carrying out to vary the species of trees in plantations in Ireland, with a view to encouraging more native species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is engaging with local authorities with regards to the implementation of tree strategies for local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27250/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current position with regard to ash-dieback disease; if there is a particular programme for monitoring these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27251/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their work over the past two years in very difficult times. I refer to figures for community care and public nursing jobs. I have raised this previously. I note that the exit figures out of the HSE were 3,722 to December 2022. I presume the exits out of community services are part of this 3,722. That figure is 3,305. Has any real analysis been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Are we doing exit surveys in our hospitals? Someone else raised this. I have come across HSE staff who have raised concerns that no one is asking the questions as to why people are leaving. Is it because they have young families and the appropriate hours they require are not being given to them? I have heard that people who have young families are not being accommodated at all. These are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I know that, but Ms Hoey is still not dealing with the issue I have raised about the exit surveys. Where have we done exit surveys? What has been the outcome of them? If they are not being done, why are they not being done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I have raised this with a number of sections of the HSE and I do not know of any place or any hospital where exit surveys are being done.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: If we want to cater for people's circumstances as they change, if we want to try to keep numbers, is it not extremely important we find out why people are leaving and particularly why numbers of people in specific areas are leaving?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Moving on, another area that I want to touch on is the use of operating theatres in hospitals. I know of a number of HSE hospitals where the use of theatres is limited. There is one hospital where patients are not allowed into theatre after 4 p.m. A consultant in the north-west region advised me that she had been told that if a patient is not in theatre by 4 p.m., that is it, and the...