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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Then do we need to revisit on the basis of getting for value-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: There may be factors, Chair, but this is about the cost to the taxpayer.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: This is the Committee of Public Accounts. We need to have accountability. The second issue which I want to raise, and I have raised this before, is about the delay in getting people out of public hospitals, where nursing homes are prepared to take patients, but they feel that the fair deal scheme will not be adequate because a person needs a higher degree of care than the normal nursing...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I am aware of that. That is not the issue. The issue is where it is clearly identified that the patient needs a higher degree of care than a normal nursing home. There are contracted beds that the HSE has in nursing homes.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: In one case, for instance, where there were ten contracted beds, that facility was prepared to take an extra two patients under the contracted beds system, and the HSE would not agree. It wanted to send them off to outside of County Cork, which does not make sense to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: If, however, they went into a public nursing home, it would be costing a lot more anyway. If one is getting €1,000 under the fair deal scheme, and the nursing home says that it would require an extra €350 or €400 per week to look after this patient because they need more staff assigned to them, and a higher degree of care, why can we not? We would get an awful lot of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: A bed there costs €600 more than a bed in Dublin.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Another issue is the lack of co-ordination between the local authorities, Irish Water and the Department. It is crazy. A local authority wants to do one thing but cannot because Irish Water is not in on the overall plan. That is causing a problem.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The problem was that there was no money being put in by local authorities to deal with the water services. We are 40 years behind in terms of upgrading. I got a note to my office in Blackpool in Cork the other day. The pipes were being flushed out because some of the steel pipes are more than 100 years old and all the water coming out of them was brown. No upgrade has been undertaken for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: There is also a problem that in the period around 2008, many people who were buying houses were saying they would not have estates taken in charge but would set up management companies to manage the estate and the effluent treatment. Many of those management companies were not set up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: There is also an issue where they were sold at the time because local authorities did not want to get involved in developing new sewage treatment facilities and they allowed the contractors to do it. The contractors got purchasers to sign agreements that they would take responsibility for the management of the estates and of the sewage treatment, but those agreements were never followed through.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: It is now a mess.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of farmers who have availed of TBESS to date; the total number in Cork, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21525/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of individuals who have benefited from the help-to-buy scheme in Cork; if there are plans to extend the scheme beyond 31 December 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21526/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that his Department will engage with Cork City Council with a view to developing a park-and-ride facility on land the council owns at Monard, Cork, taking into account that these lands also adjoin the Cork-to-Mallow rail line, where it is proposed to build a railway station in the long term; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position in respect of the payment of instalments to builders who have contracts for the building of new schools, in view of the fact there appears to have been a delay over the past three months in the making of such payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21043/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all payments due under the contract for the erection of a new school (details supplied) will be brought up to date in view of the fact the most recent request for payment was submitted in January 2023 but has not been paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21044/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a modular unit will be provided at a school (details supplied), given that it has been sanctioned for a third ASD class and will require this additional space in order to accommodate these students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action his Department is taking to reduce the eight-month waiting time for the processing of visa application appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21133/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to remedy the situation in which a person who has forestry land and the Forestry Service has refused to grant them a forest road licence in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21134/23]