Results 21-40 of 11,553 for speaker:Colm Burke

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: For full digitalisation of all medical records, do we have a five-year plan with targets for each year-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: -----and showing what we will deliver. What are the repercussions if it is not delivered? Do we just move on and say issues arose and we could not go ahead with it?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: What is the target date for full digitalisation? I know the new children's hospital will be fully digitised, as will the maternity hospitals. What is the timescale for all the other hospitals?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: A complaint I am getting is some hospitals have outdated systems and they are not getting the funding to update them. I was talking to a junior doctor recently. He told me he is an SHO and spends 50% of his day chasing scans and X-rays that have been taken and trying to get them on to the file. Fifty per cent of his time is taken up doing that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: We are very reliant on existing structures. What I am saying is that-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: -----we need to look at step-down facilities to get people out of hospitals. For a person to be in a hospital costs the State around €8,000 per week, whereas the most it will cost in a step-down facility will be €2,000 per week.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I will raise one other issue, which relates to dental services. We are now in a disastrous situation in relation to those services. In 2012, 393,000 medical card patients received dental treatment. In 2023, it was down to 283,000. That is a drop of 110,000. The number of dentists providing both private and public care has dropped from over 1,450 to 810. What action will the Department...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I have two quick questions. The first is on the elective hospital in Cork. I was told by the former Minister, Stephen Donnelly, that a application permission would be made by October 2023. The design has not even been finalised. I ask for a timeline for this process? My second question concerns the lack of co-ordination between Departments in relation to the training of key people....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: Mr. Tierney is saying that by the end of this year, the planning application will have been submitted.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I had the same answer from Stephen Donnelly in 2023.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: That is not enough.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: If I may-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: On forward planning, this should have been tried with radiation therapists. It took two years to take the decision. We will not see the results for four years. The Department needs to work with the higher education sector on forward planning, to make sure that something like this does not arise again.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I will touch on one or two other issues. One relates to step-down facilities. A problem I have come across involves, for instance, a person in a hospital who needed access to Dún Laoghaire rehab facility but that person occupied a bed in a public hospital for four months. Are we doing anything to identity step-down facilities where everything possible has been done for the person in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to increase the number of dentists practising in Ireland and increase the number participating in the dental treatment services scheme, given that number of practising dentists in Ireland in 2022 stood at 2,420 dentists, and Ireland is at the lower end or bottom quartile of the OECD countries for number of practising dentists, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the action her Department proposes taking in order to increase the number of dentists and dental practices who are prepared to provide for medical card patients in view of the fact that the number of dentists providing such care has dropped from 1,452 in 2012 to 810 in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34758/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce an action plan to help increase the number of dental practitioners in Ireland who are prepared to provide care to those who are medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if she has set a deadline for a design for the elective hospital for Cork in Sarsfield Court, Glanmire, to be finalised; whether she has set a deadline for the project to go to planning stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if she will work with the HSE to provide additional funding and resources that are required for the pulmonary arterial hypertension unit in the Mater Hospital (details supplied) given the unit has not had any additional resources since 2003; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34700/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if she will prioritise the Programme for Government commitment to investigate early access schemes for orphan medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34701/25]