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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Status (10 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for Irish citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be progressed to decision stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13178/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I welcome the announcement this morning by the HSE that it has acquired a hotel in Blarney to convert into a 60-bed community nursing home. This is a very welcome decision and I very much support it. On the issue of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, I refer to the commitment given at the health committee several weeks ago that more than 400,000 doses of the vaccine would be made...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in Cork city and county in each of the years 2011 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13716/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure lower interest rates for Irish mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons from Cork city and county who have availed of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13714/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will conduct anonymous exit surveys with staff to assess the reasons for staff leaving the health service and systems that could be put in place to support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13707/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department has put in place to support non-consultant hospital doctors from outside Europe who are working or wish to work in Ireland and who can assist in reducing staff shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13708/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department is taking to address the mental health strain that Covid-19 is taking on health staff well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13709/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address staff fatigue as a result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13710/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if NPHET has considered if all cohorts will receive a vaccine (details supplied) if approved by the EMA; if not, if the vaccine will be limited to certain cohorts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated phone and email line will be instituted by his Department to answer queries from those with serious and underlying conditions seeking clarity as to which cohort they fall under in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has assessed the value of genomics and the role it can play in diagnosing rare conditions and diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (11 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consultations will take place with an organisation (details supplied) in order for it to consider the provision of electronic payment facilities for farmers who are selling stock given the absence of an electronic funds transfer arrangement which will put farmers who do not have easy access to lodgement facilities for cheques at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: It is important when writing to the Department about legislation for the use of CCTV that we also seek a timeframe. There is no point in saying we want the Department to bring forward legislation. We should seek for it to confirm to us when it will bring forward the draft legislation rather than writing the same letter again this time next year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Absolutely, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Absolutely. I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleagues on this matter. The SBCI letter now seems to dispute some of the issues raised. I would like to see the evidence of this because the evidence we had does not appear to agree with some of the issues raised in the letter. It is important that we get the SBCI representatives to check back in and go through this again. We need to see what explanations are being...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I think it would be helpful if we did get written answers because at least then we can scrutinise those answers. I really think it would be helpful if we got them in before the SBCI representatives came back in. That is my personal view.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: It would be important we have replies in well before that date.