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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that Nursing Homes Ireland was not contacted by the HSE until after the survey was published as regards getting involved in and having a more co-ordinated plan to get people out of hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Perhaps Mr. Mulvany could give the committee the dates when contact was made with Nursing Homes Ireland over the last eight weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Could Mr. Mulvany give it to the committee as I have been getting different information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move on to another area that relates to elderly people who attend accident and emergency departments. The big problem I have is the number of families who contact me about a person in an accident and emergency department who is frail and has a lot of additional needs and they are left there. Is now the time to look at the structure of accident and emergency departments and to have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I have heard of cases of elderly people left in accident and emergency departments for two, three, four and even five days. Surely we owe it to them to make sure that does not arise. They have paid their taxes and made their contributions to the State. Therefore should we now look at the structure of accident and emergency departments and aim to give them the level of care they deserve in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: That is the reason I am raising this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: I want to raise one final issue, which is the digitalisation of the HSE. Many of the delays in accident and emergency departments occur because a person was in hospital three or four months ago and doctors are trying to get access to his or her file to see what was decided three or four months ago. For instance, in Cork, a person in an emergency who went Cork University Hospital and to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: What about the criticism that has been given by Martin Curley? This has been going on, and I have been raising this issue, for ten years. I spoke to Danish ambassador recently about how, in Denmark, they are down to five different computer systems in their health service. Their medical records are all computerised. They reckon that they are saving €2 billion to €3 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: Exactly. It is not near where it should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: What can we do to make sure that, instead of having a five-year plan, it can be made into a three-year plan? How can we do that and how can we deliver it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: We have done it with maternity services as well. Therefore, we can do it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: I appreciate that the Minister of State is dealing with this matter. I am sure she is familiar with this very important issue in her area. We have a lot of people who are working very hard to meet the criteria and to make sure they do not have to rent for the rest of their lives.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: The figures the Minister of State produced are interesting. There is a 57% refusal rate. This is 57% throughout the entire country. We must remember this is an average. I understand that the refusal rates of certain local authorities are as high as 70%. This is the concern I have. If the average is 57%, it means some local authorities are proactive in assisting people. I ask that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: This is not the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. I thank Deputy Rabbitte for all the work she has done on the housing area. It is unfortunate, on the second last day before we finish up, that the Minister of State is asked to deal with this housing issue. It is an extremely important issue. There are a large number of people getting caught in the middle-income groups....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the national broadband plan in County Cork from 1 January 2022 to 30 November 2022; the number of premises connected during this timeframe, including schools and broadband connection points in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62537/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister provide a progress report on the roll-out of the national broadband plan in County Cork from 1 January 2022 to 30 November 2022, the number of premises connected during this timeframe, including schools and broadband connection points in the county and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Does the Minister of State know the number of schools outstanding that have yet to be connected? I am coming across a lot of problems in County Cork where there are properties that Eir has the capacity to connect, but is not allowed to because they are in the amber area. Has there been any progress with Eir on that issue? For example, in one case the pole that provides the connection is at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: I refer to engagement with Eir. I understand when a property is in the amber area, Eir will not engage. It is saying it is being prevented from engaging because it will not get the same remuneration as the contractor doing the national broadband roll-out. That is the reason Eir will not connect properties in the amber area. As we are behind to a large extent in real terms, can we not...