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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry-out an independent review of radiation therapy to deal with recruitment and retention in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20990/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that his Department and the HSE are taking to address recruitment and retention in the radiation therapy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20991/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 268. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will develop a long-term strategy which will assist in the radiation therapy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20992/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: There is a difference of €744 per bed per week between the cost of a nursing home bed in a public nursing home and the cost of such a bed in a private nursing home. This does not make sense. In County Laois, for instance, the average cost is €2,585 per public bed while the average cost of a private bed in a private nursing home is €1,039. That is a difference of 148%....

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: If I may come in, I wish to raise the issue of recognition and the grandfather clause. A problem arose before the Minister’s time on the specialist register in the medical profession. We had to do amending legislation to deal with it. Have we made sure that a glitch like that does not arise in this case?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The regulation came in where there was an obligation to go through a set training process to get onto the specialist register here in Ireland as a medical practitioner and there was an issue with people who trained under the old system. For argument’s sake, let us say that the regulation came in on 1 January. Anyone who was already in a consultant post on 1 January immediately got...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for the clarification.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: In fairness to the Department, there is a bit of work still involved in going through what has been produced and what needs to be dealt with, looking at all the different angles. I think a three-month period might be a bit too short. I am not sure of the Minister's view on it, even if the time was extended to allow the Department to deal with the issue.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I have no difficulty in principle but the period of three months is way too tight. In fairness to the Department there is a fair bit of work involved in that. If the three-month period was modified I would certainly take serious consideration of the amendment but that timeframe is far too tight.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm why there is a discrepancy in the figures provided in response to two different parliamentary questions (details supplied) in respect of the percentage of total packs of cigarettes sold that contain more than 20 cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20976/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coast Guard Service (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a project (details supplied) which has been granted planning permission can proceed; if this project has been advertised in order that tenders can be submitted; when it is likely that the tender process will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria for companies to avail of the Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme; if his attention has been drawn to reports that Enterprise Ireland is advising companies that they must be clients of Enterprise Ireland to avail of the scheme when no such condition exists under the terms of the scheme approved by the European Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the current position in respect of properties acquired in Cork city by his Department or by companies or organisations working with his Department in the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, or refugees from Ukraine; if he will set out in full the number of properties currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when funding will be made available for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that when the new five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities is constructed, it will include an intensive care unit that can take care of very seriously ill children who can be cared for in a timely manner without having to be transported at a crucial time; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when the project for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities can proceed to the next stage, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a refund scheme which would allow persons (details supplied) who have to rent medical equipment such as breathing assistance machines to receive repayments of the monies which are due to them for the cost of the use of these machines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20483/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to expedite the processing of applications for medical card holders in the south-east CH05 area who require care under the HSE community ophthalmic services scheme for persons who require eye examination and optical appliances, in view of the fact that the processing of these applications is taking anything up to eight weeks...

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank Ms Buckley very much indeed for her presentation and for the information she provided to the committee. I very much appreciate it. I wish her every success in her new role, as well as the people who are appointed to assist her in dealing with the very difficult tasks. A newspaper report recently mentioned 27,000 residential housing units pending a decision. There is much...