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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Has the INMO made a request to the Department, the HSE or the Garda to consider putting in place a mechanism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: I worry that when one-off meetings are held and organisations like those present today appear before the committee, we do not hear about it again for another 12 months. I suggest we set up a structure in the same way that we have done with local authorities, which has been extremely helpful in local communities. Likewise, with such a structure there would not necessarily need to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: We might ask the Health and Safety Authority to join those meetings as well in order that we cover all the angles. It is something for which we should all be looking. As a committee, perhaps we should also write to the Garda authorities on that issue as part of the outcome of this. The second issue I wish to touch on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: One way of dealing with this is to make sure all people are singing from one hymn sheet as regards how we deal with it and how we will reduce the level of both verbal and physical abuse of hospital staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Perhaps it is time we started to look for them to be collated to deal with this issue. These people are providing a level of care for the general public. They are doing their best to deliver a service in the best possible way and they are being hindered from doing so. As people said earlier, it is devastating for someone to go home from work having been assaulted the night or day before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Are the agreed terms being implemented right across the board? Do we still have some facilities where doctors are required to work much longer hours than what has been agreed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider offering financial support to post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics, similar to the support being offered to registered teachers to teach subjects such as mathematics, physics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the home support waiting list for funding and for carers in each month of 2021 and 2022 for each LHO and CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours delivered in each LHO and CHO in 2021 and 2022, compared to the targeted hours of delivery, including the split between directly and indirectly delivered care, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5659/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not including the average length of time waiting for a home support package in national KPI reporting requirements; if consideration has been made for reporting the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5660/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of an application for reimbursement under the Cross Border Healthcare Directive by a person (details supplied); when they will receive reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6006/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the reason students from a college course (details supplied) have been informed that they are now not entitled to the pandemic recognition payment, despite having been previously informed that they would receive the payment, if consideration would be given to granting students from this course who worked in healthcare settings during the pandemic this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Collins Barracks, Cork will be the location of the headquarters of the military formation that will control military operations in the southern region of the country, in the new Defence Forces structure that emerges as a result of the recommendations set out in the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total number of the Defence Force members who are eligible to receive the Covid pandemic recognition payment; the total number who have received the payment to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department will take in the provision of additional capacity for school transport for the 2023-2024 academic year (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4951/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of SEN provision in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4952/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. It was stated that 65% of patients diagnosed between 2014 and 2018 survived longer than five years, so there is a 65% survival rate. How does that compare to other jurisdictions, such as the UK or other European jurisdictions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: What tumours have survival rates that are below average, and what do we need to do in order to get them above average?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there a particular reason that is the case?