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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 67. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the current position in respect of the transfer of ophthalmology services from Cork University Hospital to South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital, in view of the fact that a new outpatient's unit and two new theatres have been built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1928/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made in increase radiation therapy at third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2100/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average waiting time for driver tests across all test centres nationally, in tabular form; what progress has been made to date in reducing the five or six month waiting time for driving tests experienced by applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2114/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to address the increase in road deaths over the past five years, with the exception of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2151/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to address road safety challenges nationally and to reduce death and injuries of road users, pedestrians and cyclists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2152/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to address road safety challenges in Cork, in view that Cork in most instances is in the top two counties for most road traffic fatalities in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2153/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to prioritise the safety of road users and if consideration would be given to increased road policing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2154/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she could advise on an application for an extension for a school (details supplied); what progress has been made to date on this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2148/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. It was mentioned there are three health areas with particular problems, namely CHOs 4, 6 and 8. What areas do they cover?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: There are particular problems in those three areas, compared to others.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: Ms Morrison referred to the fact people are going away privately and getting assessments and it is costing a lot of money. Has there been any engagement with the Minister, the Department and the HSE? We are using the treatment purchase fund for hip replacements and all sorts of things. Why can we not use it for something like this? Is it not a way to expedite it? We were talking about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: I accept what Ms Deasy says but let us take it a step further. What is the obstacle in CAMHS? Do they not have the staff to deal with it or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: The tender issue would resolve that problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: On staffing levels being too low in CAMHS, there is a CAMHS team. Is it the case that, where there is not the full number of people in the team, the team does not function at all or is it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: We have a particular problem in the Cork-Kerry area, for instance, which has been there for quite some time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: When Ms Ní Ghiolla Mhairtín's group met with CAMHS, did it suggest how it intends progressing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: Absolutely, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: One of the problems we have with the HSE historically is that there has been a great reliance on independent agencies to provide services for people with intellectual disability and for people with physical disability and the HSE has not adjusted, as time has moved on, where it now has that role and is not implementing it. We have taken on over 40,000 additional people in the HSE in the past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: Can I come back to one of the statements in the presentation this morning regarding GPs and teachers advising not to disclose that the child has autism? What is the concern that once a child is diagnosed with autism they are not able to get access to CAMHS? Why is that used as a barrier for getting access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: In other words, one is moving them off the CAMHS waiting list onto a disability waiting list.