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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I accept that but what I am asking is how we are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: ------addressing that. I have given three examples of people occupying beds in hospital while other people are trying to get in. If there is now a shortfall in community beds, how are we addressing that? We are talking about having more community care but, if we do not address the issue of beds in the community, we cannot address the issue of beds in the hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: However, Mr. Mulvany must also accept that Cork University Hospital takes in people from outside its area and that there is therefore more demand for beds within its hospital structure. With regard to cases where it is clear that people can be discharged, to be fair to the people in charge in CUH, they are having difficulty in getting people out. They are doing everything possible to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move onto the issue of elective hospitals, which is a matter for the Department of Health. We have now decided on the sites. What is the timescale before we will have a design and begin the planning process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: What is the timescale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The other issue I wish to raise is that of the surgical hubs we have been talking about. I understand there is talk of four surgical hubs, one of which is to be in the Cork region. What kind of timescale are we talking about for those? I know we are discussing sites again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I presume we will have to go through a planning process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I will go back to one other question for the HSE. In fairness, according to the figures the HSE gave us last week there are now 157,000 people working in the HSE and there has been massive recruitment over the past six years. It has gone up over 40,000 whole-time equivalents. As regards people leaving, have we an exit survey in each of our hospitals and healthcare facilities? Are we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Going back to the exit surveys, are we analysing them? I am getting various reasons from people who have left, whether it is nurses, doctors, community care or whatever. Are we getting anything from the analysis of the exit surveys and should we be doing a lot more in that whole area? To train people in to a particular service takes time. We are losing very valuable people. Can we do a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: In HSE south-south west, for instance, there were 1,800 people providing home care and within a very short period, 400 of them left. Was any reason identified as to why so many people left? I know it was very difficult because all of these people worked during the Covid period. It was always very difficult for them. Was there any real analysis done as to why 400 out of 1,800 people left...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department intends to actively engage with lending institutions to communicate a clear set of lending policies in taking on a vacant or derelict property for the purposes of home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15867/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will engage with lending institutions for the purposes of designing a one-lender type product for the purposes of renovation of properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15869/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will engage with lending institutions for the purposes of considering green lending to assist in renovating units for residential use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15870/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the granting of a tax rebate over a period of ten years to support the conversion or renovation of multi-occupancy buildings to residential use, similar to the living city initiative scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15868/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the Croí Cónaithe towns fund scheme, he will consider including feasibility grants for the purposes of assessing the overall viability of the project, whereby such monies would ascertain the level of funding needed to inform the level of grant funding necessary to renovate a property for homeowner use;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the Croí Cónaithe towns fund scheme, he will consider granting tranche payments to improve cashflow rather than at the end of the renovation as is currently the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider conducting a review of the relevant building regulations, that is, part B, relating to fire, and part A, relating to structure, to address challenges with renovating existing units to residential use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15857/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the relevant agencies to provide specific and technical guidance documents for renovating older buildings to assist construction professionals, builders and owners to better understand buildings regulations and to achieve compliance in older buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if will consider funding a campaign to promote living over the shop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15859/23]