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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: Regarding the elective hospital, how long is this issue going to be kicked around the place? Consider the case of South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork, for example. The building has been in place for 150 to 200 years. It cannot be modernised unless major work is done. We either go down that road or build a new hospital on a greenfield site. The elective hospital proposed by...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: May I just touch on the National Treatment Purchase Fund? In talking about that, I am also talking about the treatment abroad fund, which is different. People are now being encouraged to travel abroad for some medical treatment although there are facilities in the South to deal with some of the treatments being provided abroad. What are we doing to deal with this issue, so we can keep the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: One of the problems relating to the NTPF is that people are being sent out for assessment and the assessment comes back and then they have to be referred again. Has reform been made in that regard, that is, the situation whereby people who are referred, are referred not only for the assessment, but also for whatever procedure is required? One of the complaints I am getting in respect of the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: The Minister referred to the recruitment of additional consultants. Have particular areas been prioritised in that regard? There are several areas in which there is a shortage of consultants. Have those areas been prioritised? What particular areas have the Department and the HSE decided to focus on? I refer to amending legislation relating to people who were not regarded as being on...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: It relates to certain people who were not regarded as being on the specialist list, in the context of consultants. Amending legislation was put in place to allow them to join the specialist register but the regulation to allow that to happen has not been put in place. These are consultants who were appointed but are not regarded as being on the specialist register.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: No, I am referring to consultants who were employed by the HSE and with regard to whom we had to bring in amending legislation because, for various reasons, they did not qualify under the specialist registrar scheme. Some of them were filling positions for several years but had never been on the specialist register when they were then appointed as consultants.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 67. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional supports will be put in place for businesses which are major tourist attractions and of economic, cultural and historical significance which have suffered over 90% loss in profit throughout the pandemic but still face significant maintenance costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21825/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspectors employed by local authority to inspect residential accommodation which is made available for letting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22056/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties which are registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in each local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22054/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of landlords that have been prosecuted in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021 in each local authority area for failing to register their properties in which those properties are occupied by tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22055/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Data (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action proposed to be taken to deal with the non-registration of rented accommodation given that in some local authority areas as little as 40% of rented accommodation is registered with the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22057/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will carry out a review of the payment made to participants under the community employment scheme in which the current scheme only allows an additional €20 per week on top of the unemployment benefit; if so, if consideration will be given to increasing the payment to €50 per week in addition to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Marriages (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to entitling qualified civil celebrants to solemnise weddings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Marriages (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those qualified as civil celebrants will be entitled to solemnise weddings in view of the fact that many marriage registrars are only available Monday to Friday; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21363/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 887. To ask the Minister for Health the reason supports are not being provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that died with Covid-19 from 1 February 2020 to 15 of April 2021, by county; the number that died in private nursing homes, HSE nursing homes and congregated settings by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 1124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of funding of the €1.8 billion allocated to his Department announced in Budget 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21261/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Eligibility (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 1125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason commonage lands and lands containing heather are excluded from the proposed results based environment agriculture pilot programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21262/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Apr 2021)

Colm Burke: 1158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if as per the programme for Government, Our Shared Future, €1.5 billion raised from carbon taxes will be ring-fenced for use in environmental schemes in agriculture up to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22089/21]