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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I apologise for interrupting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: -----but my understanding-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Can I just say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that Nursing Homes Ireland was not contacted by the HSE until after the survey was published as regards getting involved in and having a more co-ordinated plan to get people out of hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Perhaps Mr. Mulvany could give the committee the dates when contact was made with Nursing Homes Ireland over the last eight weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Could Mr. Mulvany give it to the committee as I have been getting different information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move on to another area that relates to elderly people who attend accident and emergency departments. The big problem I have is the number of families who contact me about a person in an accident and emergency department who is frail and has a lot of additional needs and they are left there. Is now the time to look at the structure of accident and emergency departments and to have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I have heard of cases of elderly people left in accident and emergency departments for two, three, four and even five days. Surely we owe it to them to make sure that does not arise. They have paid their taxes and made their contributions to the State. Therefore should we now look at the structure of accident and emergency departments and aim to give them the level of care they deserve in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: That is the reason I am raising this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I want to raise one final issue, which is the digitalisation of the HSE. Many of the delays in accident and emergency departments occur because a person was in hospital three or four months ago and doctors are trying to get access to his or her file to see what was decided three or four months ago. For instance, in Cork, a person in an emergency who went Cork University Hospital and to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: What about the criticism that has been given by Martin Curley? This has been going on, and I have been raising this issue, for ten years. I spoke to Danish ambassador recently about how, in Denmark, they are down to five different computer systems in their health service. Their medical records are all computerised. They reckon that they are saving €2 billion to €3 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Exactly. It is not near where it should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: What can we do to make sure that, instead of having a five-year plan, it can be made into a three-year plan? How can we do that and how can we deliver it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: We have done it with maternity services as well. Therefore, we can do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. O'Connor for his presentation. I will be brief. Is the Department satisfied that, if someone decided to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation, we have covered all angles as regards the issue of public areas and the constitutional right to protest and that the legislation would stand up to such a challenge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there any previous legislation of a similar nature dealing with something else where we had to go through the constitutional angle carefully? I am wondering about the previous experience of the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: If we are happy with the constitutional issue and that the legislation is effective, people will always look for alternatives. For example, they might protest outside the houses of staff members or where their children go to school or where a member of their family is working. Are we satisfied that protection against that can be incorporated into this legislation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position of the Glashaboy flood relief scheme; when work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1915/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I want to raise the issue of the Glashaboy flood relief scheme. As the Minster of State is aware, it went out for tender over 12 months ago and tenders were submitted. Unfortunately, the contractor who was awarded the contract was not able to do the work on the basis of the price quoted and the timescale set out in the tender that was submitted. Where are we now in relation to that? It...