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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Advertising (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support the funding of a public information campaign to promote knowledge of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46644/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will give consideration to increasing the number of refuge places to 470 from the current target of 280, to ensure that Ireland meets its obligations under the Istanbul Convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46645/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ring fence dedicated funding to fully implement her Department’s Zero Tolerance Action Plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46646/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will give consideration to the expansion of her Department’s Community-based CCTV grant aid scheme in order that small- and medium-sized businesses can avail of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46647/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ring fence dedicated funding to support an alarm grant scheme to be made available for small- and medium-sized businesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46648/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will set aside dedicated funding for the purposes of community rejuvenation and diversion programmes to support young people who are at risk of going into crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46649/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support mandatory trauma-informed training for all of those who engage with victims/survivors of crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46650/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the highlighting pathways to empower rural women to have sustainable and equitable livelihoods in farming, HER-SELF, research project; when it is envisaged same will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46501/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for a child (details supplied) who is currently attending Crumlin Children’s Hospital’s, for a communication device to the children's disability network team assist with their communication, given their previous device broke; when a decision is likely to be reached in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) who is currently attending Crumlin Children’s Hospital will be seen by a speech and language therapist in Cork from the children's disability network team to assist with their communication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46066/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) who is currently attending Crumlin Children’s Hospital will be provided with a wheelchair, as it is urgently required by them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46067/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) who is currently attending Crumlin Children’s Hospital will receive respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 594. To ask the Minister for Health when an increase to the fees payable to contractors for a standard eye examination under the community ophthalmic services scheme will be implemented, in view of the fact that he gave a commitment to implement this change in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46535/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My first question is for Mr. Watt and relates to his opening statement. He spoke about the increase in the budget over the last seven years from €4.6 billion to €8.1 billion. If one takes inflation into account, however, while there is an increase in real terms in the number of staff and so on, the same percentage increase has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: If you have inefficiencies arising in the system, and the amount has gone from €4.4 billion to €8.1 billion, surely there is a need to tackle that. Some of the examples I am getting from hospitals include consultants not turning up to clinics and clinics being run by registrars or senior registrars. I was given an example by a nurse who moved to the UK. When she worked in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: This is a case where the ratio was not the same and it depended on which day of the week it was, for example, whether it was the weekend, whereas in the UK, there is a set ratio of senior and junior people. How does the Department now deal with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: This is the argument that was put to me and is one of the reasons this person left and went to the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Mr. Gloster accepts that we have had an increase in population of 40% in the past 23 years. Therefore, there is greater demand on services. The last thing we need is inefficiency in the system, even when we have put more money into it. Does Mr. Gloster agree that more work needs to be done on it? For example, are there checks and balances regarding who is turning up to clinics to see if...