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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Mr. Watt said he was not sure whether this issue was raised in the previous two years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Watt for that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date in respect of the introduction of half-price transport for young persons as set out in budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of householders who made a local property tax return; the number of householders who accepted the initial Revenue Commissioners' determination; if a figure is available for projected revenue that will be raised by the tax in 2022; the way in which this compares with the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to greater flexibility of current public transport incentives such as taxsaver tickets given the greater flexibility of office-based work and the hybrid approach to working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if research is under way with regard to the potential impact on motor tax revenue an increased uptake of electric vehicles will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students at higher education institutions (details supplied), who make up approximately 12% of the higher education student population in Ireland, are to be excluded from the public health free rapid antigen tests initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students studying on publicly funded Springboard programmes in private higher education institutions will be excluded from the free rapid antigen tests initiative while their fellow students on Springboard programmes in the public higher education institutions will be eligible to receive the tests; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to including students at higher education colleges that are members of an association (details supplied) in the public health free rapid antigen tests initiative in view of the contributions by the students to the Exchequer; if not, if separate funding will be made available to those students for this once off...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the inclusion of students at higher education institutions that are members of an association (details supplied) in the public health free rapid antigen tests initiative in view of these institutions releasing their students to ease the staffing crisis in public primary schools and in early years settings; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Tests (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students at higher education institutions that are members of an association (details supplied) are to be excluded from the public health free rapid antigen tests given the Exchequer is providing free rapid antigen testing to international and European Union students studying in publicly funded higher education institutions who may...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed within the health service, by categories (details supplied), for the year ending 31 December, in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and at 30 October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62029/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for their presentation and for all the work they are doing. I am sure they are dealing with very challenging situations on a daily basis. I thank them for the care and service they provide. I want to touch on two issues. One is turnaround times at hospitals. Does the ambulance service sit down and discuss the issues with management? Are the front-line medical people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Yes. Would Mr. Kenny deal with the issue I raised about the link with hospitals? Is that link purely with management or are the front-line staff in accident and emergency departments such as the nurses and doctors involved in those discussions? I have heard from ambulance personnel that they have a solution but they are not being listened to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: It is all fine engaging with management and ambulance personnel identifying solutions and conveying them to management, but are those solutions being conveyed down the line? Is there a three-way engagement between medical staff, management and the ambulance service? That is the question I am asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Is that not a real flaw in the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Is Mr. Kenny aware of that happening? He spoke about the situation in Kerry. Is he aware of that level of engagement in, say, Cork or Limerick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Kenny accept it would be better if there was joined-up thinking and management and the front-line medical people, namely, the nurses, doctors and care assistants in accident and emergency departments, also attended those meetings or at least part of them, rather than medical people being dealt with at third hand after the ambulance management talk to hospital management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: Can I ask Mr. Kenny-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: I have a further question on unnecessary ambulance call-outs. The figures from Dublin Fire Brigade show there were 8,532 calls in November 2020 whereas there were 12,657 in November 2021, an increase of more than 4,000. That is a substantial increase in one year for the same month. Is there any explanation for that dramatic increase in a 12-month period? Could some of those people have...