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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 294. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a further extension of the temporary assistance payment scheme into 2023 to support private and voluntary nursing homes with additional costs due to Covid-19 outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the terms of reference given to HIQA to carry out health technology assessments related to influenza vaccines; if he will detail the proposed timelines for these assessments to be commenced and completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and his officials are taking to ensure vulnerable groups including those aged over 65 years of age have the greatest level of protection for the 2023-2024 winter flu season; if he has considered NIAC’s advice to offer an enhanced influenza vaccine for this age cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (2 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the steps the Government has taken to implement the Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100 on the withdrawal of certain exemptions in respect of heated tobacco products, which was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 3 November 2022 and entered into force on 23 November 2022 ahead of the deadline of 23 July for the transposition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the work they have done in this area. I will begin with the issue of the new consulting contract. I am open to correction but my understanding is that under the new contract, consultants will be required to work a set number of hours, and there is nothing preventing them from working in the private sector outside of those hours. Am I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: That is what has occurred in the UK as well, as I understand it. For example, instead of consultants working 37 or 39 hours per week, they may decide to work in the public sector for 20 hours and there is nothing preventing them from working in the private sector for any number of hours they wish, but not in the HSE hospital. In other words, there will be no private work in HSE hospitals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I accept that. I think that will ease out faster than what we think because the number of private hospitals that are now looking for consultants is actually increasing and some of the private hospitals have expanded. For instance, in Limerick the sod was recently turned on the new Bon Secours Hospital in Limerick. It is expected that that will be up within 23 months. We were talking about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: What should be done? For instance, in one of the places where we need an new elective hospital, it took nearly five years to identify a site. We have now identified a site and I am still being told by the Department that it will take a further 17 steps before we go to planning. There must be some way of expediting that. If we want to deliver a public health service, why does it take so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: It is a political question, but it is also within the remit of the Department. It took nine months for the Department of Health to send a proposal from the South-Southwest Hospital Group to the then Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. There must be a way to expedite these projects when the private sector can build a hospital in 23 months. When talking about healthcare, there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: What I am saying is that we cannot look for the delivery of a range of areas of Sláintecare without having infrastructure in place. That is one of the problems we have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: We need the infrastructure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: On the issue of moving care out of the hospital system. Several GPs have told me that there is a problem in hospitals in that there is a huge shortage of physiotherapists because they have left to provide community care. Yet, in the context of providing community care, I spoke to a GP who was trying to arrange a physiotherapist. He rang the HSE service and found out that the earliest he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: It is a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: Care in the community is provided five days a week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: The reality, however, is that it is.