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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I am aware there is a challenge. Are there particular areas in the country where there is a greater challenge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does Ms Whelan accept that it is an important part of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What changes would the witnesses make for the people who are providing home care? For instance, I have an issue at the moment where a lady is spending four to five hours every day with her elderly mother and her carer's allowance, even though it was only €130 a week, has been withdrawn. I do not understand why it has been withdrawn. We are dealing with an appeal at the moment. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Staffing is an issue in home care. How would Mr. Dunne challenge that? In the south-south west area, 1,800 people providing home care were employed by the HSE. After Covid was over, it dropped by 400 and the HSE has had a challenge in trying to replace that 400. What do we need to do to make it attractive to get people into providing home care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Which areas could be improved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: If you were to compare someone in a nursing home at the moment costing on average - and I am taking the very average across the country - about €1,100 per bed, per week with home care, you are talking about nowhere near that figure. You are probably talking about €250 or maybe €300 per week, even when there is someone doing three hours a day for a week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We are having a greater demand in the sense that if you look at the changing age profile of the population-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: -----it is a challenge that we now have to start planning for. We should have started earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: That is fine. To go back to the issue of Covid, one of the issues I am finding at present is that quite a lot of people living on their own, who stopped contact with many people during the pandemic, seem to have still maintained that routine. It is one of the things I am a little frightened about, especially for those people who do not have any immediate family. Many of them are in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There are still some people who were not necessarily going to the centres before and now it may be the only opportunity for them to get out there, but they may still be reluctant to leave the routine they got into during Covid.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider reviewing the current position where local authorities are not entitled to sell properties to tenants where there are less than three bedrooms in the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5005/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Last year, the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, started a training scheme where it was bringing people in from outside the EU. More than 100 individuals joined that two-year scheme, which is intended to allow them to practise as GPs here in Ireland. In fact, in our city of Cork we now have a doctor who qualified in Ukraine working on the northside of the city providing care to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: It said it has agreed to the increase, but it has not confirmed that funding will be provided. The ICGP has abandoned its plans to interview people. We cannot afford to have this happen. We could have more than 100 new GPs coming in every year from now on under this scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the guests for their presentations here this morning and for dealing with the queries raised. It is important that I would raise something at the very start. There was reference this morning to the health service that does not work. It is important to highlight that the health service is working and that there are more than 3.5 million outpatient appointments per annum between all...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The question I am asking is why is it so long. Take social welfare, for example. In 2022, it issued 302,000 PPS numbers to people from 202 different countries but we cannot do this in health. We have our medical cards computerised and all of that done but we have not computerised our medical records or patient records so that you we not have this crazy waste of time that is going on at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: But that ties in with the other issue about the use of pharmacies, for instance. We have a whole lot of people having to attend GPs because you cannot open up the whole distribution of medication. If it is a non-prescriptive drug, you could go into ten different pharmacies and get the same drug on the one day whereas if all of that is computerised you could give a lot more work out to...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: But there is a huge saving-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: If you go back ten years, Denmark worked out it was saving about €1.8 billion per annum. It goes back to the junior doctor. All his colleagues are going to Australia. He is staying in Ireland. He is an intern. The reason he is staying is that he wants to learn more but he also wants to try to improve the system where others-----