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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (8 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Irish prisons that are providing a comprehensive hepatitis C and or infectious disease treatment programme within the prison facilities in view of the fact it is reported that up to 13% of the Irish prison population have hepatitis C; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36679/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I wish to raise the temporary assistance payment, TAP, scheme for nursing homes, which ceased on 30 June. The costs incurred by nursing homes have increased substantially over the past 18 months because of Covid-19. Those costs remain in place. I ask that the Government considers seriously the extension of the scheme. The UK has continued to extend additional support to all its nursing homes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to further reducing the intervals between the first and second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30464/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the guests for the information they have given to us. The committee should get a full and detailed breakdown of the number of additional claims pending and the cost of those claims. There are a lot of fuzzy areas at the moment around what is pending and what is not. It would be helpful to know the full extent of the total value and number of those claims and their status. Could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Are there additional claims relating to those two projects that must still be resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: What is the value of those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Perhaps the committee may have details in writing on those two projects. It would be helpful for the committee if we had written details on those two projects, including the costs, the overrun and the additional work that had to be done that was not included in the plan. Can we also get that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I will move on to the implementation of the electronic records. I understand that electronic records have been introduced for maternity care. If electronic records are to be introduced for paediatric care we need to be careful to ensure that we do not end up with a system where one is not able to connect with the other. Is there co-ordination on that issue? With regard to the other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: What will be the case if a child is receiving care in Cork, for example, and who then must suddenly be transferred to more specialised care in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Is this the case if they are in the paediatric system in Cork? What is the set-up for three-year-old being admitted to that system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: We are talking about Dublin, and it is very much focused on Dublin, but can Galway, Limerick and Cork be included the same process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Is Ms Hardiman saying that there is no plan long term for converting the current systems in all the other units outside Dublin into electronic records?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: We need to do a long-term plan for the whole area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Why not do it on the basis of it being extended out? Why not plan for a target of extending it out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Cork, Limerick and Galway paediatric care would not be in small wards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Could CHI not target a number of units that have in excess of a certain number of patients per annum? I am concerned that more than €2 billion is being spent on a paediatric hospital and €800 million on a maternity unit in Dublin. We are saying to the rest of the country that they can sit and wait until we get around them in 20 or 30 years. That is not the correct approach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: We have been able to do it with the maternity services.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to ensuring that home tutors governed by the home tuition scheme will be afforded the right to pensionability for their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who receive income under the home tuition grant scheme by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36394/21]