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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: There is the issue of dividing up the HSE into regional areas. Will there be a cost issue to this? As a result, how will tight control be kept on it? When we amalgamated all of the health boards into the HSE there was a huge cost factor. I am concerned that now we are doing the exact opposite and we will have another huge cost factor.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The Chair knows that when anything is restructured there are costs. I was speaking to someone recently about the reconfiguration of the bands that HSE employees are in. Some people have gone up by two bands. This means their salaries have increased and rightly so. The people who have not move bands are feeling very aggrieved as a result. I am concerned that given what happened previously...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Perhaps it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I also think it is a good one to deal with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: We have a problem in the sense that people can go abroad and get treatment and look for reimbursement from the State but if people want to go through the National Treatment Purchase Fund they must wait for someone else to decide whether they can do so. I am not sure we are getting value for money on this. It is worth looking at it to see whether we are getting value for money and could it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The problem with the NTPF is someone other than the patient decides what is happening whereas with treatment abroad, the patient decides, in real terms, when he or she gets treatment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The difference is the patient can decide whether he or she wants to go abroad but the patient has no say in respect of the NTPF.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: That is the difference. We now have a scenario where people are going abroad who, if we had been operating the NTPF in a correct way, would not be. That is what I am saying. I am now convinced we are not getting value for money because of the fact there are facilities here in the South. People are going to Northern Ireland for a whole lot of treatment. I have no problem with that but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: That is grand.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Is Enterprise Ireland in the week after next?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarification as to the reason farmers who have previously invested in robotic milking parlour equipment under TAMS 2 are now ineligible to apply for the support under the new TAMS 3, in view that it places these farmers at a significant disadvantage compared to their counterparts in herringbone systems who can...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing adaption grants awarded in 2022 in Cork; the total value in euros; the number of families that benefitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes that were delivered in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number of planned units for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (8 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to granting the full minimum wage to workers from the age of 16 years, rather than an incremental approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11773/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I also thank them and pharmacies around the country for their contribution to dealing with the Covid issue and providing vaccinations, which was appreciated by everyone. I will open with the issue of the chief pharmacist. It was stated that there was no one in the Department of Health with that level of expertise. The witnesses believe that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there engagement between the IPU and the Department on having a chief pharmacist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The issue of access to contraception was raised. If there was a chief pharmacist, could many of the proposals in question be expedited?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Why does Ms Maher believe there is a resistance within the Department to changing the regulation?