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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of elective hospitals. The Secretary General referred to this. We have identified a site in Cork and appointed a design team. When is it believed we can go forward to making a planning application? Is there a timeframe? I fully understand the Department does not have overall control of the design team but timelines are being set out. What timeline are we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Watt think we will have a planning application ready to go before the end of this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: My next question is on three facilities which the HSE has in Cork. Mallow General Hospital is to have 48 beds for run-of-the-mill patient care and 40 rooms have been built. I have received a letter from the chief executive of the South/South West Hospital Group this week. There seems to be no plan for what the 40 rooms will be used for. The other two facilities in Cork are Heather House,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: We will have to downscale the number of beds in the old Mallow hospital, however, and transfer them to the new unit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: No one is able to tell me what we will do with the 40 rooms. They are there. We have a problem and great pressure in getting people into and out of hospital. What is the plan? The letter I received from the South/South West Hospital Group does not give me clarification on whether there is a plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes, I am aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: With regard to the other 40 rooms that have been built, no one has given me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: Surely we have a building built. There is great demand for services. We have a four-storey building and the second and third stories have 48 beds. No one is telling me what we will do with the ground floor and the first floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: What is the time plan? The building is there. CUH is under great pressure. There is an increase in population in Cork, Kerry and all of the Munster region. We need the capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: The other problem is availability of rehabilitation beds. There is huge demand. All rehabilitation facilities are based in Dublin. There is no rehabilitation facility, in real terms, in County Cork. Why can that not be considered as regards rehabilitation facilities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: We now have the building, my view is about its effective use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: My concern is that there is huge pressure on the services in County Cork. I ask that someone come back to me as soon as possible, rather than me getting a letter which does not say "yes" or "no" that this will or will not be the same way this time next year. That is what I am concerned about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: There are pressures-----

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department is taking to ensure that price gouging does not occur under energy grant schemes, including the deep retrofit grant scheme and the solar PV grant scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 450. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to including agricultural mechanics, construction plant fitters and heavy vehicle mechanics in his Departments critical skills occupations list, in view of the critical shortage of qualified mechanics in the farm machinery industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications for roof repairs and reconfiguration of two rooms for a school (details supplied) will be processed, in view of the fact that these are urgently required to accommodate 41 children enrolled for September in the school, which has recently become co-educational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27459/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to permitting second level students with a diagnosis of dyslexia additional time in the exam hall to complete their junior certificate and leaving certificate examination papers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the number of people who are on the live register in each town in County Cork; the number of people on the live register for more than 24 months in each town in County Cork; the number of people who have been referred to the local area employment service in each town in County Cork since...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to the review of the current means test requirement for the additional needs/exceptional needs' payment for children, adolescent and young adults (CAYA) cancer patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28241/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 838. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to expanding the criteria for the household benefits package to include all cancer patients upon diagnosis until treatment is finished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28243/23]