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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: Mr. Reid will see from the contributions thus far that the issue around delayed discharge is a theme throughout all our hospitals. By way of figures, the number of delayed discharges in University Hospital Kerry this year is in excess of 3,000, which is almost in line with the trolley count for the year. It does not take a genius to realise that if we solve one problem, we will go a long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I thank the Chairman for leading by example. I will be exactly that - brief and to the point. I have just come from a briefing from the IPU. I note that the Minister works well with that organisation. For an organisation, it is non-adversarial and non-confrontational and sometimes it might deserve to make more progress for adopting that approach than other organisations that have a...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I will outline a brief history of the project, which is in my constituency. It was first announced in 2006 and was fully supported by the local communities, local industry, and every politician and political party. It had received full planning and licensing by 2012 and was supported by the EU as a project of common interest in 2013, which was renewed in 2015 and 2017. In 2016, during the...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: The Deputy should ask Deputy Ferris for his opinion on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a summer works scheme grant for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40262/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the occupancy rate for community beds for each of the hospitals at Tralee, Listowel, Killarney, Dingle and Caherciveen community hospitals in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40176/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the process for accessing a community hospital bed in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (3 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community hospital beds in County Kerry; the number of beds in each community hospital in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40334/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (8 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review in-school management posts in primary schools with a view to revising upwards the provision of posts for schools with more than 45 teachers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40733/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (8 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the €1 million special fund announced for in-vitro fertilisation treatment for couples unable to conceive; when the fund will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40657/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: What about the cuts for pensioners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: Although I am not a member of the committee, I take a great interest in the matter. I suggest that when the committee invites representatives from the Department, it might also invite Gas Networks Ireland, EirGrid and possibly Professor John FitzGerald, who sat on the Irish Energy Research Council and is an independent assessor of our energy needs. The majority of our guests are not in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: Mr. McElligott stated a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary would be dangerous to people within a three-mile radius and will sterilise the Shannon Estuary. On what is that statement based?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: Projects of common interest seem to be topical. This project was granted PCI status in 2013, 2015 and 2017. What is different now to those occasions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: We are all entitled to change our minds.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: 3. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the decisive shift to primary care pledged in the Programme for Partnership Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41486/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I ask for an update on the decisive shift to primary care pledged in the programme for Government and reiterated in the Sláintecare document. Everybody accepts that the cornerstone of our future health strategy is to fully resource our primary care services and by doing so we may, in some way, make progress in improving our health services. Unfortunately, to date I see no evidence of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I wish to bring the Minister back to one figure. He said €60 million was available for the next two years, but only €10 million of that is for 2020. That is putting stuff into the never-never. A figure of €10 million will equate to 160 whole-time equivalents. This is minuscule compared to what is needed. The announcement sounds positive but stretching it out over two...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I might go back a step. In reply to a parliamentary question from Deputy Donnelly during the summer, it emerged that if one compares the final budget spend for 2018 in primary care with the budget spend projection for 2019, one comes up with a reduction of €7 million. If one breaks it down into the community healthcare organisations, CHOs, one can see that there is a significant...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

John Brassil: I put down Question No. 25, which I could take now.