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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the promised changes to the income supplement scheme under the Bovine TB Programme will come into effect, whereby the date of eligibility for income supplement would be the date of restriction, and these changes will be backdated to 1 February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4731/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 377. To ask the Minister for Health for an indicative timeline for the new public health (tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products) Bill as proposed in the Government's Legislative Programme for 2024, published on10 January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 378. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the fact that the issues involved in the proposed new legislation have already been examined and discussed at length during the various enactment stages of the recent Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023 which was enacted in December 2023, if he plans to proceed to the pre-legislative phase of the new Bill; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be engaging with the EU Commission on the proposed new public health (tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 380. To ask the Minister for Health how many submissions were received during the public consultation process for the public health (tobacco products and nicotine inhaling products) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4804/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations this morning and for all the work they are doing in this area, which is challenging. We talk about family carers and the need for them to receive support. One of the problems that has arisen, in particular as it has got more difficult since Covid, is with them getting a break, in other words, two weeks of respite care. What information are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I am aware there is a challenge. Are there particular areas in the country where there is a greater challenge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does Ms Whelan accept that it is an important part of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What changes would the witnesses make for the people who are providing home care? For instance, I have an issue at the moment where a lady is spending four to five hours every day with her elderly mother and her carer's allowance, even though it was only €130 a week, has been withdrawn. I do not understand why it has been withdrawn. We are dealing with an appeal at the moment. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Staffing is an issue in home care. How would Mr. Dunne challenge that? In the south-south west area, 1,800 people providing home care were employed by the HSE. After Covid was over, it dropped by 400 and the HSE has had a challenge in trying to replace that 400. What do we need to do to make it attractive to get people into providing home care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Which areas could be improved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: If you were to compare someone in a nursing home at the moment costing on average - and I am taking the very average across the country - about €1,100 per bed, per week with home care, you are talking about nowhere near that figure. You are probably talking about €250 or maybe €300 per week, even when there is someone doing three hours a day for a week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We are having a greater demand in the sense that if you look at the changing age profile of the population-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: -----it is a challenge that we now have to start planning for. We should have started earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: That is fine. To go back to the issue of Covid, one of the issues I am finding at present is that quite a lot of people living on their own, who stopped contact with many people during the pandemic, seem to have still maintained that routine. It is one of the things I am a little frightened about, especially for those people who do not have any immediate family. Many of them are in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There are still some people who were not necessarily going to the centres before and now it may be the only opportunity for them to get out there, but they may still be reluctant to leave the routine they got into during Covid.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations here this morning and for the issues they have dealt with already. They dealt with the complaints in respect of the recent riots. In relation to public protests overall, are there many complaints pending or have many been made in the past 12 months in relation to Garda attendance at public protests outside of the riots that were referred to earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: In respect of complaints previously received, has there been any guidance issued to gardaí where GSOC would have come across scenarios where an issue could have been handled better? Has it arisen previously?