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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Has the OPW requested that a review be carried out in order to assist it? I fully understand that it wants to get on with projects as well. As Mr. O’Connor said, it has to work within the rules. Has it asked for that issue to be reviewed and a more up-to-date procedure put in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: In June of what year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Has the OPW followed up on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Which Department does that come in under? Is it the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: I will return to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: On the OPW flood relief projects in Cork, I believe €109 million has been spent in recent years. On projects currently in the pipeline, how many will have work commenced by this time next year? I am referring to the Glashaboy and Blackpool schemes and a number of other projects around the county. There are 150 projects scheduled to be done between now and 2030 across the entire...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: If we have written to the Charities Regulator, why is it taking so long for it to come back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of centres belonging to an organisation (details supplied) that are supported by her Department by county; the Government supports that have been allocated to the organisation in 2022 in comparison to 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: 55. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when it is envisaged that Community Centre Investment Fund allocations will be discharged to the community groups and organisations for successful projects under category 1 of the fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if the 35 children with cystic fibrosis whose age and genotype were not included in the initial deal with a drug manufacturer will now be included to provide access to the life changing medication, kaftrio (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: 413. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline all the actions that her Department has taken across various sectors to revitalise rural Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56912/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for making the time available to us, for their presentation this morning, and for the discussion paper published in October. It has a lot of very good information and it is about planning the way forward. I am coming from a scenario I saw some five years ago when I was in the UK. At the time there were more than 5,000 GP vacancies there. In the area we were in,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Are we talking about less than 10%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Okay. With 285 qualifying next year the important thing is to take the right steps to encourage them to stay here in Ireland and to make sure there are proper structures in place for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: On the numbers, in four years' time how many new people will have qualified? Are we talking about 932? If we take into account the two-year training programme that was referred to, what kind of targets are we setting for four years' time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Over the next four years, would the college see itself having 300 coming out every year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: On a few occasions I have come across people who have found the whole work situation in the hospital extremely stressful and they want to step back into doing GP work. What is the training programme for someone who has spent five, six or seven years in hospital training, who decided it was not for them and decided to go back into the GP scheme? Is the training for them still four years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: What kinds of numbers are we talking about where that is arising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Were these actually dropping out of the hospital system?