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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who have contracted Covid-19 in 2020 will be included in priority groups under the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if clinics for those who have suffered from Covid-19 have been established in hospitals in order to manage patients with complications as a result of a Covid-19 diagnosis or who require follow-up care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44292/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 552. To ask the Minister for Health if a national strategy will be put in place pertaining to the operations of clinics for those who have suffered from Covid-19; if consideration has been given to the ring-fencing of funding either at local hospital group level or national level for persons who have contracted Covid-19 and as a result have suffered prolonged ill health; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to classifying Covid-19 as a long-term medical condition in view of the long-term ill health and complications experienced by some who contracted the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing co-ordinated services on a national level for persons who have contracted Covid-19 and are since recovering but require follow-up care or referrals to specialists where necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44295/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if a co-ordinated national strategy on follow-up care for those who have contracted and been affected on a long-term basis due to Covid-19 has been discussed between his Department and hospitals with post-Covid clinic facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to awarding a consultant contract to existing specialists in public health medicine as per the recommendations of the Crowe Horwath report, the Scally report and the report of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44305/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing targeted measures to recruit and retain hospital consultants across all specialties to increase the number of consultant posts in line with the recommended ratios of the national clinical programmes and the postgraduate training bodies and to address the shortage of hospital consultants in Ireland in comparison...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to increasing the number of basic and higher postgraduate specialist training posts in order to meet the demand with the number of posts front-loaded in year 1 accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of consultants required to provide training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the modernisation of postgraduate specialist training reflecting changes in the practice of medicine and the changing demographics of doctors in training by establishing a differentiated model that provides clearer career paths with greater predictability of training arrangements, greater predictability at the outset of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 567. To ask the Minister for Health if investment of targeted incentives for general practice and the development of infrastructure, including premises, medical equipment, diagnostic equipment and IT equipment, will be considered, as per the recommendations in a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44311/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if further financial supports to allow newly established general practices to remain financially viable and open to patients will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44312/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if further financial supports will be considered in order for established general practices to employ additional general practitioners, practice nurses and other support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44313/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Funding (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing a multi-annual programme of investment in 5,000 additional public acute bed capacity, including investment in standalone public hospitals for elective care and a doubling of critical care capacity to 550 critical care beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44314/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to expanding access to diagnostic, radiology and laboratory services to allow timely access to investigations and results of same to general practitioners, which will support them in appropriately managing patients in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44315/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the further resourcing of diagnostic, radiology and laboratory departments in hospitals to allow timely access to investigations and results of same for hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44316/20]

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the organisation for the work it has done over the years. It is important to acknowledge that. It was an extremely difficult challenge because the people who were making applications had come through difficult times. There was €97 million paid out and there were 57,000 payments. I refer to what Deputy Munster asked earlier on. In respect of those people who are unhappy...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: I know that. I do not have the time now.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: What about outstanding claims?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: What of complaints, such as Deputy Munster said?

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