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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...

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

Colm Burke: Chair, it is about forward planning and how we work with all the different organisations

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

Colm Burke: I accept that and I fully accept that the HSE in Cork has done a huge amount of work in improving all the community hospitals but I am concerned about how fast we can deliver the replacements needed. We also need to remember that the population has increased by more than 170,000, from 410,000 to 580,000 in Cork alone. There is a large demand there. The question is how we respond to meet...

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

Colm Burke: In relation to the structural management in CUH, there are more than 320 consultants there so it is a huge hospital.

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

Colm Burke: My question is about the decision-making process. Hospitals in Dublin have a direct link to the decision-makers regarding the provision of finance whereas in Cork it has to go through a series of hurdles before anything can be signed off on.

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

Colm Burke: No, Limerick has a direct link.

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

Colm Burke: CUH does not have a direct link

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

Colm Burke: I know but it still has to go through a huge series of hurdles before-----

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 131. To ask the Taoiseach if he will include a young carers section on the Census form, to ascertain and enumerate the level of care provided by young carers relating to their role in providing physical or emotional support to family members with a long-term illness, health issue, or issue related to old age or disability [13744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 342. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the granting of enhanced tax credits specifically targeted at young adult carers, to enable them to remain in the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13745/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 347. To ask the Minister for Finance the quantity of cigarette packs containing 20 cigarettes sold in each of the past ten years; and the quantity of cigarette packs sold containing more than 20 cigarettes, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [13963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will arrange for his Department to request all local authorities to carry out an audit of their housing stock in respect of all three, four and five bedroomed properties which are occupied by one person only; if a more progressive plan will be put in place to facilitate those who wish to downsize to smaller houses or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all properties currently being managed by local authorities which are three, four and five bedroomed but which are occupied by one person only, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12371/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary regulations will be put in place in respect of planning for the owners of property who operate short-term rentals (details supplied), given that local authorities are applying a different set of rules in their respective areas in view of the fact that no policy directive has been issued by his Department;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current position in cases in which a property owner has operated a short-term rental service (details supplied) and was previously advised that they did not require planning permission and are now required to apply for planning permission given each individual local authority is applying a different set of rules, with...