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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,...

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 - 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....

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...

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

Colm Burke: That office still has not been established.

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

Colm Burke: With the legislation in place since 2022, is there a need to ensure it is fully implemented and has the structures in place?

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

Colm Burke: What is the number of cases where the courts appoint a guardian ad litem?

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

Colm Burke: Are we talking about 100 people or 500 people? What kind of numbers are we talking about per annum?

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

Colm Burke: Are there difficulties with the lack of family support a child is to have?

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

Colm Burke: Has the number of appointments increased over the past five years?

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

Colm Burke: Has it gone up by, say, 100% or 200%?

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

Colm Burke: I want to move on to another issue. A large number of children are in foster care but there is a certain group for whom foster care is not available. With regard to the accommodation that is needed, does Tusla believe there needs to be substantial additional investment in that area? Is there a clear plan set out for dealing with that?

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

Colm Burke: What is the number in residential care on any one day?

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

Colm Burke: Has there been a substantial increase in that figure and does Tusla anticipate there will be a further increase?

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

Colm Burke: What is the plan after people turn 17 and 18 years of age? These are people who require a substantial degree of support. What mechanisms are in place once they reach the age when it is technically no longer Tusla's responsibility? Is Ms Duggan satisfied that there is sufficient follow-on care? I know it does not come under Tusla's remit.

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

Colm Burke: Is Ms Duggan satisfied with the aftercare support system at the minute? It is something I have come across quite a bit. People have got substantial support when they are younger and then as they get older, that support is not in place, and they end up engaging in criminal activity.

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

Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of how the population of the country has substantially changed in the sense that we have huge numbers from abroad. We have more than 530,000 people now working in Ireland who are non-Irish and, therefore, we have a hug number of families where parents are not originally from Ireland. That then poses new challenges within Tusla's area. How is Tusla now developing...

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

Colm Burke: May I ask one more question, Chair?

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

Colm Burke: Finally, the other issue is unaccompanied children who have come in from abroad. I know quite a number have come in from Ukraine. In any one year, what is the average number of children coming in now? How are we dealing with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I do not think it would be unusual. UCC, for example, which came up today,has inhouse legal advisers but gives a lot of work out to different law firms. The HSE invites companies to tender for its work. I do not think it has an inhouse legal team. A lot of private companies have inhouse legal teams but a lot of work also goes out. It depends on the nature of what is involved. Legal work...