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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 968. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort or group in which persons with hypertension fall in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11965/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 981. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the current vaccination programme and place carers who look after vulnerable persons in their own home as a priority. [12000/21]

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister, his staff, all of the HSE personnel and the GPs who are working very hard in rolling out the vaccine. There are two issues I want to raise. Although it is a bit down the road from being delivered, the first issue concerns those in category 4, for example, patients on dialysis and people on chemotherapy treatment, who were brought from category 7 to category 4. I want...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Black for his presentation. Some of my colleague have raised the issue of Bibby Financial Services Ireland. My understanding is that the SBCI is involved in providing and supporting lending to Irish companies. However, with regard to Bibby Financial Services Ireland, my understanding is that its accounts in 2019 show €299,000 lent to Bibby Line Group, a British shipping...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: This particular entity is a British shipping and finance company and it received €299,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that it is a British company. This is Irish money which was given to the company here and which was then lent on to the British company.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: It appears, however, that €299,000 was given to a British company.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Mr. Black might come back to me on the specific issue of the €299,000 that went to the British company because that is what is showing up in its accounts. I have two questions with regard to the second issue I want to ask about. First, is this company that the SBCI is dealing with the only non-bank on-lending partner that provides an invoice financing facility on behalf of SBCI?...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I am dealing with a company at the moment that employs 80 people, has had a major downturn because of Covid-19 and has difficulty currently in getting finance even though, in terms of the banks, it is 80% guaranteed by the State. What does the SBCI do with an organisation like that where its own bank is now reluctant to give it additional funding? It needs to keep its 80 employees to keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Reid and the other witnesses for their work in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. I will make a comment and I do not want a response on it. It is about cohort 4. It is important to outline to people, with regard to the cohort with underlying medical conditions, whether dialysis or chemotherapy treatment, that vaccination will not be delivered immediately to them but that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: On the challenges facing the health service, for hospitals located outside of the main centres of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, it is difficult to fill a huge number of posts, whether they be registrars, senior registrars or senior house officers, SHOs, because the number of people coming in from outside of the European Union now is decreasing as well. We are also finding it difficult...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Does Dr. Henry accept that it is challenging to fulfil consultant posts, SHO posts and registrar posts because we do not have enough people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I have raised the issue of surveying people who are leaving the health service on a number of occasions. Today, we received a letter from Ray Mitchell saying that there is no national scheme to conduct a detailed survey of the people who are leaving the service, be they administration staff, nursing staff, care assistants and doctors. As some very good people are leaving, why not set up a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Can we plan for that now to help the health service retain very good people? It we did that we could analyse the issues, for example, in a hospital, in an administration section of the HSE or any section. It would be great to learn from why people have arrived at their decision to leave and move on to either other countries or other services within the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I received a very detailed email from a public health consultant who is now in Australia and he worked in Tallaght before. Where are we with the issue of public health doctors not being treated as consultants? Will the issue be resolved within the next six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I will send Mr. Reid the email because it is very good and shows that we have lost a very good person to another jurisdiction.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (10 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the work of his Department to support households in maintaining warm homes, important for reasons of good health in particular through retrofitting and energy efficiency measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1496/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (10 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of engagement with the review in late 2020 of Ireland’s long-term renovation strategy as required under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; if the submissions have been examined; the steps he plans to take in 2021 to progress the implementation of the strategy given the way in which...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process for the setting up and distribution of community dividend and benefit funds associated with wind and solar energy projects; if there is a public record available of the community dividend and benefit funds allocated to date for such developments in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (10 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to revising the current procedure in which transgender persons who wish to have their names changed and recognised in organisations, for example, the National Driver Licence Service, are require to enrol their deed poll to do so, thus allowing for this information to become accessible to the...