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

Colm Burke: 473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to assist forestry owners who now find themselves in the position where they have been granted a felling licence but are having issues being granted a forest road licence as a result of changes to environmental policies, in particular with regard to watercourses; and if he will make a statement...

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

Colm Burke: 474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to ensure that forestry owners who have made financial investments in forestry will not encounter issues in future with regards to the issuing of forestry roads licences, in view of changes to environmental policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider setting up a working group to examine the feasibility of introducing a prescription card to record all medications issued within a particular time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21612/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility, or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, according to age group, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide data regarding the number of deaths recorded as a codeine-related overdose from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21614/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Covid bonus payment for a group (details supplied). [21693/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I will return to what Deputy Shortall said about aligning the PPS number and the client identifier number. I am concerned about that and about the timescale. I will give a simple example that happened with me yesterday. Someone had a PPS number that was the same as their husband's, but with the letter "W" added to it. A new PPS number had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: In this case the person was working for a State agency, and the State agency was not given the new PPS number at any stage. I have looked at the payslips for the past five years. Even though this PPS number had been allocated to this person, their employer, which is a State agency, was not made aware of it. I am concerned about how we are now talking about putting client identifier numbers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: In this case the person was an employee of the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The Department of Social Protection and the Revenue are dealing with this issue and they had not even put their numbers together. The Department has client identifier numbers and is now talking about PPS numbers. I am concerned about the timeframe for getting that done. Are clear targets going to be set out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I have a question about maternity services. Four of the maternity hospitals are now totally computerised, as regards patient admission and the whole of patient management. That is in place for the past five years. We are now talking about doing another hospital this year. There are only 19 units across the country. Why can that not be expedited for the remaining units, because at least...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: It is in four.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there a set target for all 19 units to be electronic? The reason it is important is that, for example, there may be a patient in Letterkenny who has to be transferred to Dublin for care. There is that connectivity between the 19 units.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: If one has the electronic records and the other does not, that complicates the issue as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Can we set targets for that area as a prime example? The structure is already there in a number of units, therefore it should be easy to implement in the remaining units.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The second point I want to raise is the issue relating to the private healthcare sector. How will that be tied in, because a lot of them are already electronic? What about a situation where, for example, someone is in CUH today and then in a private setting in 12 months' time and back into CUH 12 months after that? How are we going to tie all that in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I may be wrong about this but at one stage we had something like 1,700 different types of computer systems in the health service. I am not sure what that number is now but that was five years ago. I am sure it has changed somewhat. I keep raising this issue. Denmark started in 1996. About four or five years ago they had 25 different systems and they are working towards having five. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I raised the issue of the maternity units and setting targets already. Is that not also important? It seems to be very much drifting without any clear targets, such as a two-year target, a three-year target or a five-year target. I am just wondering whether that can be done in the plan. In fairness to other State agencies, the Department of Social Protection, for example, issued 305,000...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Colm Burke: This question is to ask the Tánaiste to provide an update on his engagement with PDFORRA and if he will make a statement on the matter.