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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: One went back six years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I presume this was the limitation that was used, which was the six years from December 2004 back to 1998 and, therefore, the family of someone who had died prior to 1998, whether it was in a public or private nursing home, could not claim if they had died prior to that date, as I understand it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I will just check one other issue, which relates to the Office of Wards of Court. At the time the Office of Wards of Court had a huge number of people in private nursing homes where ward funds were being used to pay for those private nursing homes. Is the Department aware, or has the Department looked at this issue, as to whether there was any correspondence between the Office of Wards of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I raise this issue because it would be the appropriate office to bring a claim. The office would have had a huge number of people in nursing homes and the nursing homes were being paid out of the ward funds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: That was a request I did make to the Office of Wards of Court. All we were allowed to do was issue a High Court writ and serve it, but not further progress the case. Was there any correspondence at any stage from the Office of Wards of Court? I ask that this issue be checked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: No. The reason the Office of Wards of Court was written to was a large number of people in private nursing homes were wards of court and the cost of their nursing home care was being paid from the ward funds. It would, therefore, have been appropriate for that office to test whether or not the person had a medical card, whether they should be charged in the private nursing homes. This...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking if the Department would check that issue. The Office of Wards of Court was not convinced that people in private nursing homes had an entitlement to claim. This is why I am wondering if there was any correspondence. That would be interesting. I want to move on to another issue. There is a lot of focus on a memo in 2011. Surely there were memos advising the Government in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Absolutely. Yes, in 2004 and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I am talking about the public advertisements that were placed in newspapers in 2006.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: The reason I raised the question is there is an implication that for some reason all of this in 2011 and from thereon was very much done underhand by the Department, whereas I am saying-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: Absolutely, but what I am saying is that this was published in 2006. People were entitled to claim.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: That has not really been focused on. In fact, there was a full debate on it in 2005 and again in 2006. The scheme was announced and public advertisements were placed. It would be helpful for the committee, if there was a copy of one of those public advertisements made available to show the extent to which the Department at the time went to publicise the schemes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I remember being publicly criticised for bringing claims against the Department and the health boards at the time. It is amazing how the wheel has now suddenly totally turned. I was severely criticised for claiming back money for people whom the State had looked after. I remember that distinctly back from 2004 or 2005. It would be helpful to show that there was open disclosure, in the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (21 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: 86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the likely timeline for the next sports capital and equipment programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8531/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)
Colm Burke: I understand the public health (tobacco and nicotine inhaling products) Bill was to have been published by the end of last year. It has not been published. Pre-legislative scrutiny was completed in July. Latest figures show an increase in the use of tobacco products. There is also a need for an urgent regulation of the use of nicotine products. When is the Bill expected to be published...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and for making themselves available this morning. The €738 million was paid out without all the proper procedures being followed. Mr. Molloy talked about two major organisations, namely the Department of Finance and the Central Bank. Not just one organisation, but two, made a mistake. Surely there should have been a checks-and-balances...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Colm Burke: Is Mr. Molloy saying there was a glitch in the system because it was in the run-up to a bank holiday weekend?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Colm Burke: Was there not a delay in notifying the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Colm Burke: The error was made on the Friday. When was it actually identified as an error?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023) Colm Burke: There was a delay in real terms from the time the error was identified until Mr. McCarthy's office was notified.