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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The problem we have is that we must continue to maintain-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: We must fast-track how we can have a proper structure for dealing with this. We must be able to react faster in providing what is needed in this context. I refer to even having spare accommodation available to let at times as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: On the cost information attached to the letter, I presume this is not going to be published.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I just wish to make sure this is right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Reference is made to this being commercially sensitive and not for publication.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I refer to the amount being paid to each hotel group or whatever.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Is the Deputy saying they do not want to give her the information?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: One other issue arises from this point, though. If salaried GPs are taken on, and it will have to happen in certain areas, it will then be necessary to also take on the support staff, like the administrative staff-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: -----whereas at the moment, the money going to GP practices is covering the administration and nursing staff. There is a need to look at should the nurses, for instance, be employed directly instead of by the GP practices.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I know, but the ratio of nurses to GPs compared with other jurisdictions is much lower than it should be here. I say this because nurses can do an awful lot of the work GPs are doing but we do not have sufficient numbers of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form the details of all applications for housing projects in each local authority area, where the finance was provided by his Department or by the Housing Finance Agency, in particular applications received from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, 1 January 2023 to 30 April 2023, setting out the number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form details of all applications received from approved housing bodies for housing projects, where the finance was provided by his Department or by the Housing Finance Agency, in particular applications received from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, January 2023 to 30 April 2023, setting out the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I fully accept the Minister of State's commitment to this area, and that of the Government, but there now is a problem. In the Cork area, for example, the amount paid for public nursing home beds is one of the lowest in the country. I fully accept that. However, the increase allowed in Cork for public nursing home beds was 10.4%, whereas the increase for private nursing homes was 2.7%....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I want to raise the issue of the discrimination that is occurring in the moneys being allocated for private nursing homes compared with public nursing homes. As the Minister of State is aware, we have a situation in Cork where a nursing home with 73 beds has decided to withdraw from the fair deal scheme. It is interesting to go through the figures on this. The average cost of a public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Those are the figures and I have a full table for every county. Unless this matter is tackled we will have fewer beds available for people. In the past three months I have been trying to get people out of Cork University Hospital. People were in that hospital three to four months longer than they should have been because they could not get an appropriate bed in a step-down or nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify as to the reason the HSE has not allocated additional nursing support in order that children with complex medical issues can attend school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23434/23]