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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 330. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the non-capital (current) Government expenditure on Bantry General Hospital in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated in Bantry General Hospital in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7203/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are they still in the accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We have talked about the cost of overtime. Is Ms McCaffrey satisfied that we have sufficient processes in place in our prisons to provide healthcare for prisoners whereby we could cut costs by having a service within the prison rather than people having to be transferred to a hospital setting?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We have been talking about the whole Prison Service, the fact that we have increasing numbers in prison and the process when people are discharged from prison. Have we enough connection between the various support agencies once a person is discharged from prison? We are talking about costs and this committee is dealing with public accounts and the cost to the State. Could we be doing a far...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Is the Probation Service getting enough support to be able to give help because there is huge demand on its services as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: If we take the number who are in prison at the moment, what percentage are in there for the second or third time? What is the total number currently in prison?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Of that 4,800, what percentage-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Have we done an analysis of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are we talking about 50% or 60%?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does that not prove the point that the prison system is not working, or while it is working in that the people are in custody, it is not working with regard to trying to make sure there is not a cost to the taxpayer into the future?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: It is the connectivity that is lacking.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What is the number of people aged under 18 in prison?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The Prison Service does not have any-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Obviously, there are people who will have served time in Oberstown and then end up in the prison system. There is a need for connectivity. The smaller the number of people from Oberstown who end up coming back into the prison system, the better.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does Ms McCaffrey accept that between Oberstown, which comes under a different Department, and other Departments, there needs to be more joined-up thinking about how to work with people who are discharged from prison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State and the Department for the work they are doing. We were talking about obesity and messaging earlier. I was looking at a social media post by a cardiologist, Dr. Paddy Barrett, who was saying there is quite a misunderstanding about weight loss and nutrition, and that while people are talking about cutting back on food, it is not planned and, therefore, there is...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Can I clarify this issue in the Florida courts at the minute? I understand that the courts will always take into account the rights of the child before any other rights. They will give priority to making sure the child is looked after in the best possible way. This Bill is not in any way reducing or removing any powers from the courts in this legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I am not talking specifically about this type of legislation, but in all cases in family law legislation the courts will, I think, take into account the rights of the child. I do not think this legislation is in any way removing that power from the courts.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Yes, absolutely.