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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: On challenges that companies are now facing, one is the challenge employees face in relation to accommodation. Therefore, there must be a huge emphasis now on locating outside of the capital. What can be done? Obviously, the job growth outside of Dublin is welcome. What more can be done in order to assist companies? They want to get the employees and the employees have to get...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: On the innovation in the building sector, my understanding is that we have a higher labour content per square foot of residential property that we build compared with other European countries. Is Enterprise Ireland getting involved in any way to assist that whole industry to be more innovative and able to produce faster and a larger volume? What has been done in respect of innovation in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: In doing that, have we looked at other jurisdictions as regards how we can make progress in that area? One of the big challenges is the shortage of labour in the whole construction industry. Therefore, we have to get more efficient with the labour we have to produce the volume we require.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I am sorry; the Chair might want to move on to someone else for the time being.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that in 2022, Enterprise Ireland was involved in and supported 144 climate projects. What types of projects was Enterprise Ireland directly involved in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: It is only 144 projects. That is a small number in an overall context. Should we be doing more in that area? Mr. Clancy spoke about European funding. What level of European funding is available to support climate projects?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Was all of the €10 million available in 2022 drawn upon?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: By 31 December 2023, will we have a greater uptake of the funding that is there? If the money is not drawn down in a particular year, do we then lose that funding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Mr. Clancy mentioned a target of 450 companies. Over that time period, it is still a small number of companies in real terms. Should we be doing more? If necessary, should more Government funding be provided to deal with that particular area? It is a small number of companies in an overall context.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of beds that are available in purpose-built student accommodation in Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway; the number of new beds which have been made available in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; the current number of units that are currently under construction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14391/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Gloster for his presentation and wish him well in his new role. It is a difficult task and I fully understand that. In his statement, he outlined that there are positives in the health service. Life expectancy in Ireland, for example, has increased dramatically. The results in our maternity services are extremely good in a European context. However, the media's focus has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: When we look at it from the part-time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: There has been a growth of 40% in real terms in eight years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Can I just talk about the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: That is the number of people who are physically working for the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move to issues around how we operate the service. There has been talk about the fact that nurses are highly qualified. In fact, many nurses are better qualified than many junior doctors. That does not take from junior doctors who are training. We have not expanded the roles of the nursing staff. On the other hand, nurses are doing duties that care assistants could be doing. Some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: That is exactly the case. It has been talked about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move to an issue in respect of elective hospitals. I was recently advised that for the elective hospital for Cork, for instance, there are something like 17 steps that have to be taken within the Department before the hospital is built. Like others, I recently met representatives of the private hospital sector. Representatives of one of those hospitals said they are prepared to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The development at Bon Secours in Limerick will take 23 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I will touch on two other Cork-related matters. One relates to the management structure in Cork University Hospital. I understand that the staff of the hospital must go through a whole series of processes to get any change done, including in respect of work within the hospital etc. The main hospitals in Dublin, by contrast, have direct access to people at higher levels in the HSE and...