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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: We are very grateful in this House for the efforts of our front-line healthcare workers during the pandemic. They put themselves in danger and went above and beyond what was expected. The Government recently agreed to pay a €1,000 bonus to front-line workers in recognition of their extraordinary efforts. However, following recent media reports about the payment structure being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome our guests. I represent Dún Laoghaire, and I am sure they are very happy for Shannon Foynes Port to be a tier 1 port as opposed to a tier 2 one, given we went through that process previously. I also congratulate the Shannon Foynes Port Company on the funding it has drawn down from the Connecting Europe Facility. Mr. Keating mentioned channel depths of up to 32 m and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I also mentioned fibre-optic connectivity and grid connectivity. Will Mr. Hallissey or Mr. Keating reply regarding those items?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the witnesses very much for that discussion and for their opening remarks. It has been a really useful discussion for us and certainly extremely interesting. I have three questions, one of which is about energy security and relates to EirGrid specifically. It is good to have its representatives back before the committee. This is something we discussed during their previous time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: On a needs basis.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: The risk of flooding for several large swathes of County Dublin and other coastal communities is a genuine environmental threat of which I know the Minister is acutely aware. I am sure he is also aware of the joint report on the status of Ireland's climate, which was produced in 2021, that shows sea levels have risen by 2 mm to 3 mm per year since the 1990s. Will the Minister provide an...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Good morning to Mr. Reid and his colleagues. It is good to have them before the committee again. I thank them for the information provided to date. I will start with Mr. Mulvany on the Comptroller and Auditor General's opening remarks concerning the annual report, which discloses an unaudited figure of more than €1 billion of current expenditure. This was spoken about earlier but I...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am aware the HSE publishes that but I wonder if there is a way to streamline the process so that the committee does not encounter this problem again when it receives the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the operation and running of the HSE. Effectively, it says there are two different systems at work. The HSE is accountable to the Department and, ultimately, the Minister and...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am familiar with that because we have spoken about it before. I am conscious of my time. I turn to the CAMHS issue. Ms O'Connor is welcome back to the committee. I heard what she said about Kerry CAMHS to the effect that it is specific to that area. I do not want to dwell too much on it because it is an active, ongoing case. However, it would be remiss of us not to touch on it while...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Internal oversight is obviously crucial as well. That is where the structures of the national office and the national lead - and I know that Ms O’Neill is on the call and can deal with this as well - are essential. Irrespective of the professional bodies that individuals may belong to, internal structures obviously failed here. They failed significantly over a number of years. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Audit aside, what supports and services are being put in place today for those families?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: On the clinical support team issue, I am glad Ms O’Connor raised that point and I am running out of time but I ask the Chairman for indulgence on this point. My understanding is that prescriptions have not been reviewed and that the clinical support team needed to be in place certainly prior to our guests' appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts. I ask that resources be...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I will take up where I left off at the last round on the clinical support team. Ms O'Connor was discussing the supports that would be put in place for the families and children in Kerry CAMHS. She might send us a note on the updates when she replies to the committee. On overall mental health services, we recall the terrible attack on the HSE and Department IT services. Can we get an...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: It is in the public domain that over the past couple of years there was old operating software on laptops. Has that all been replaced or are people within the HSE still operating on older systems?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Reid for that update. In the minute or so that is left to me, of the 73 CAMHS, I have three in the Dún Laoghaire area in the CHO 6 area. Recruitment has been a perennial problem, particularly for CHO 6 and for the south-eastern part of south Dublin. I ask Mr. Reid, and he can send in a note on this, on the increase in in-patient public beds and, indeed, the increase in...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: And mental services

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status and readiness of the Air Corps. [13335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 60. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status and readiness of the Naval Service. [13334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school building programme for a school (details supplied). [13404/22]