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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I got a reply from the HSE about a 90-year-old lady who lives on her own and who uses a walking frame to move around. The HSE replied that she is getting one hour a week. With all due respect, to say there is no waiting list for home care is wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: On the issue of the 50-bed premises completed in Blarney, though, can we bring it on faster in order to assist the hospital in getting people out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: As to how bad it is now, though, this week I had two families on to me and they were being requested to be placed in a nursing home in Limerick. One of them was living just on the outskirts of Cork city and their elderly parent was asked to go into a nursing home facility in Limerick. There now needs to be a priority in dealing with that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: What about the elective hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I have a letter dated 25 April from the deputy acting national director of change and innovation. It states that the HSE is working towards 2028 as an indicative timeframe for operational commissioning of elective hospitals in Cork and Galway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: No. These are two families. Both patients referred to Limerick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: Hold on a second. Surely if we get through design and planning by this time next year, it should not take another four years to build them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I am concerned about the target date of 2028. Why can we not bring that forward? At least that would keep the pressure on. The letter I received is dated 25 April. This is the thinking at national level in the HSE. That is not acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: Can the paediatric unit that has full planning be expedited?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I fully accept that. I know there are challenges in getting staff. Can the conditions of employment of home care workers be reviewed with a view to trying to make it more attractive to come into that area? I fully accept that it is a challenge for management to get staff. Is it now time to look at the conditions, pay and all the issues relating to home care to see if we can encourage more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I agree with my colleague from Cork North-Central. I happen to have been chairperson of Blackpool Community Centre a number of years ago - in fact, when we applied for planning permission for a community centre in Ballyvolane. Unfortunately, however, there were so many local objections that it never got planning. I think the mistake that was made in Ballyvolane was about a site not being...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I have been involved in a particular project with a number of community groups. The problem is that the route cuts across two local authorities. It is about getting co-operation. One is Cork City Council, the other is Cork County Council and the issue is whether it can be co-ordinated between the two. There must be buy-in by both authorities. It is a well-developed project by a small...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. I very much welcome all the work that the Department is doing in town and village renewal to date but also that the Minister plans to have completed in 2023. I am wondering about the co-ordination between the Department and the local authorities because I have come across one issue recently in relation to the vacant property grant where an application was submitted...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: -----which would allow the local authority to buy and to sell again to the person who wants to develop because it would rectify the title issue.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: I very much welcome the funding the Minister has outlined for Cork. As my colleague from Cork, Deputy Stanton, clearly outlined, it is a huge county. There are lots of towns and villages throughout the place. It is important, therefore, that there is co-ordination and that where communities have a real drive on to renew and revitalise their area, there is no hurdle put in their way which...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: 114. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when local groups in Cork will be able to apply for funding under the town and village renewal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19401/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: 88. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will announce successful projects under the Community Support Fund in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19400/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (25 Apr 2023)
Colm Burke: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a Standards Working Group which was convened to examine the various guidance and standards documents (details supplied) which should be taken into account by local authorities when constructing new walking and cycling infrastructure to ensure that this infrastructure is designed safely and efficiently in...