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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: With regard to public nursing homes, for instance, I was speaking in County Kilkenny recently and one of the ratios I saw was that a public nursing home bed costs approximately €2,000 per week. A private nursing home was getting slightly over €1,000. There is a 98.5% differential. Because public nursing homes are getting, obviously, nearly double the money, is HIQA then still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: The number of beds has been reduced in public nursing homes. As I understand it, the number of staff has not been reduced. How many public beds are there currently and how many were there four years ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: With regard to the 5,110 places, is that a reduction on what was available four years ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Ms Grogan might get those for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I would appreciate that. HIQA had a problem with discharges out of the hospital in Galway. There was a difficulty with discharges from the hospital because of the fact that contracted beds were not available from the HSE. Is that a problem in a number of other areas as regards getting people out of hospital because there is not sufficient step-down facilities? Is HIQA finding that a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: One of the issues that occurred in the last week of December last year and in early January this year was that an awful lot of contracted beds in private nursing homes were not occupied. Accident and emergency departments were jammed but people were not being discharged, even though there were vacant contracted beds available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: There is a challenge in all of this about home care at the moment. The big challenge is getting staff. The issue of the number of beds that are occupied by people who could have been discharged consistently comes up. For instance, I knew of three people at one stage in Cork University Hospital, CUH, who could have been discharged. In fact, one was in hospital for 12 months more than he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Can I just raise one other issue? It is in relation to someone in a private nursing home or even a public nursing home who has gone downhill and where there is huge pressure being applied for that person to be admitted to hospital. I understand that a number of areas around the country now have teams that go out to visit the nursing home, do an assessment and give guidance on how to care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I will raise one final issue about the electronic records. I have come across scenarios where someone is in hospital or care and there are full electronic records in the ward that is dealing with the person. Yet, another section of the hospital will not get involved with the electronic system. Therefore, on the one hand, there is an electronic file and, on the other, there is a manual file...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there not a danger regarding key information when a doctor is on call or if there is a changeover of doctors or nurses? They will come on call, look at the electronic records and will not be aware that there is also a manual file that they are not familiar with. They will therefore rely on what is on the electronic system.

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Department and the Minister, and indeed Bus Éireann, for the work they are doing in trying to resolve the difficulties. The question I have to ask is why it takes until the schools go back after the summer holidays to deal with this. The schools return in September but we are still dealing with problems right up to October and November. We surely should be able to announce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be provided with SEN school transport, in view that it is now over 4 weeks since the school term commenced, and the child still has no transportation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42306/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (3 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be published; when they are expected to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42214/23]

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the representatives for giving us their time here this morning, as well as for the work they have done. My question may have already come up because I was out for a short period of time. In 2021, NAMA identified a potential for 7,283 units. In fact, I think the figure that has now been reached is 2,621. Why is there such a difference between the potential that was identified and...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Where are they now?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: They were-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes, but the impression may have been given that only 2,600 have been put into use-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: -----but Mr. McDonagh is now saying that more than 7,000 have been put into use.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay, but is it the case that they are physically in use?