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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There are more than 500 for the entire country. It cannot be let go on as it is. There needs to be a major programme by the Department to give funding to local authorities to bring them up to scratch and Irish Water would then take them in charge.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The local authority will not take over the estate unless the sewage treatment is taken over.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Not necessarily, because I know of one it is prepared to take over and to work with the local authority on bringing up to scratch.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The issue that arose, especially between 2000 and 2008, was that people buying a house were sold the concept that a management company would be set up to manage the estate and the local authority would be kept out of the estate. People bought into that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: People bought into that on that basis but not everything was explained well. If it is a management company looking after the estate, it will also be a management company looking after sewage treatment. That was never outlined fully to residents. I remember advising people about their responsibilities on this issue and people did not realise what they were buying into.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There was a huge number between 2000 and 2008.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made to date to increase radiation therapy course places in Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9085/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister outline what progress has been made to increase the number of radiation therapy course places at Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. As we outlined at the meeting in October, there are 30 training places per annum at Trinity and 12 master's degree courses at UCC. The master's programme is a two-year programme, whereas at Trinity it is a four-year course. I understand that for somebody who is studying diagnostic radiography, there is financial support for them to complete that course and, as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: In fairness, since October, the Minister has done a great deal of work on this, as have his departmental officials and the Department of Health. I do not want in any way to undermine the work that has been done, but I believe this is a priority. The information I have is that two linear accelerators in Dublin hospitals are not being used, while the same is true of one linear accelerator and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are we doing enough work in respect of the roles that are becoming redundant in real terms? Long ago, when a person went to college and got a degree, it would last them a lifetime. Now, however, in the context of business and what is happening in the world, things are changing very fast. Are we doing enough to examine the roles that are becoming redundant? Do we have adequate training in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: This matter has been raised with me by families with elderly parents or relatives trying to get home care and by commercial providers of home care. They find that the number of hours being allocated and the way those are allocated means there is quite a long delay. Where someone has been looking for home care and the HSE has exhausted its efforts to find someone who has worked with the HSE...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. I think the answer confirms what I was saying. For instance, the Minister of State talked about 25% being provided by the private sector. My understanding is that in other areas, it is far higher than 25%. The concern I have is the fact that it is confirmed that only 25% is provided by the private sector. I said to the Minister of State that three years...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What action is the Department taking in evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways? I ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There is still a problem when an older person ends up in an accident and emergency department for different reasons. All of us, including the Minister of State, have been contacted by people who have an elderly family member who has spent 48 hours or more in an accident and emergency and still not been assigned a bed in a ward. It is very distressing for the elderly person involved but also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. The challenge that we now have is where the Minister of State has talked about the programme being put in place for over-75s. That is going to be a growing challenge because we have more people living longer. The Minister of State is right in that life expectancy in Ireland is one of the best across Europe. That is now going to present its own challenges....

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister outline whether the Department has mapped out a pathway for the role technology can play in keeping patients healthy and in the planned statutory homecare scheme and the status of the roll-out of the planned actions?

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I very much appreciate that work is being done in this area but I am just wondering about the timeframe for roll-out. In a discussion on an earlier question, I mentioned the growth of the older population and the need to fast-track new ways of managing both homecare and long-term care in nursing homes. I am not sure whether there has been any co-ordination between the HSE and public and...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: With regard to this subject, we need to fast-track. The private sector can deliver computerisation far faster. We seem to have a great difficulty in the HSE. Even in maternity care, a totally different area, while four or five maternity hospitals were computerised four or five years ago, the other 14 still have not been. I do not understand why, if we have a system in place in some units,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I apologise to our guests for being late but I had to attend questions to the Minister for Health in the Dáil. I want to raise several issues in regard to the guardian ad litem issue. Are structures in place to deal with the management of the system in its current operation? Are we satisfied we have enough checks and balances in place in the management of this area? The other issue...