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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that home tutors are not regarded as employees of her Department in view of the fact that the Revenue Commissioner regard them as employees of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that consideration will be given to instituting a review to ensure that home tutors governed by the home tuition scheme, would be afforded the right and made eligible for sick pay and holiday pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that consideration will be given to instituting a review of an amendment to current working conditions for home tutors as set out by her Department ensuring that home tutors governed by the home tuition scheme will be afforded the right to secure similar work outside of the official school calendar; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to instituting a review on amending current working conditions for home tutors as set out by her Department in order that they can claim travel expenses such as those made available for Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate supervision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management of a school (details supplied) will be entitled to rent additional space in order to accommodate the students in the school in a safe manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to reviewing the proposed ten-unit cap on milking parlours under the TAMS scheme, in view of this parlour size being inadequate, to ensure that two generations of farming families can make a reasonable living from dairy farming together with other factors (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to reviewing the proposed changes to the dairy beef welfare scheme from 2023, wherein the scheme currently rewards farmers rearing progeny from the dairy herd via a payment of €20 per calf weighed, where he is now proposing to change the criteria of the scheme by rewarding dairy farm breeders...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that pedigree stock bulls are to be excluded from the dairy beef welfare scheme from 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53821/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Kearns for the presentation. I refer to the issue of structure. Am I correct that capital projects will still have to be signed off at central level? What will be the view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: The big problem in the southern region is that it has been slow in getting funding for any project. As a result, people must travel to Dublin to gain access to many services. In Dublin, there are many more independent hospitals. They have been able to get access to funding whereas we have not had the same opportunities in Cork. A simple example is that while planning permission has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: That is what is in place at the moment. The South/Southwest Hospital Group has put forward its proposals on the new elective hospital, paediatric unit and ophthalmology unit, but we still find getting funding involves an extremely slow process. Is Mr. Kearns saying there will be a separate finance structure for each of the RHAs? Salaries are all paid from a centralised service at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Let me deal with management. Since December 2014, the HSE’s number of whole-time equivalents has increased from 103,000 to 135,000 or 136,000, which means 150,000 or 160,000 people overall. There has been a huge increase in the number of administrative staff across the board. Does Mr. Kearns feel we will end up with another round of administrative staff increases? How do we deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: We thought that would happen with the HSE when we created one structure and moved away from the health board structure. In fact, the number of people in administration grew substantially meaning that we had the opposite result. Will we have the same thing here when we go back to six different structures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: When the health service needed to deal with Covid, it provided services very well. We need to do what Mr. Kearns is saying and bring everyone with us because that is exactly what happened with Covid. Management, medical people, nursing staff, care assistants and everybody else worked extremely hard to deliver. We can deliver a very efficient service, but we need to ensure the leadership is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I raise the issue of private nursing homes and the challenges they are facing. Sixteen private nursing homes have closed in recent months and a number of others are considering closing. That is because of what they are allowed. There was a comment recently to the effect that a nursing home that closed was getting €950 per week per bed under the fair deal scheme, while a public...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that his Department is currently accepting new employment permit applications for the role of dairy farm assistant, in view of the fact that dairy farmers are having difficulty in recruiting employees; if the quota has been filled for this role; if so, when his Department will be accepting new applications; and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement that has occurred between National Broadband Ireland and third-party broadband companies in relation to providing additional fibre broadband infrastructure to premises that do not have a fibre broadband connection in place and are situated in the amber area in which the private operators have capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the roll-out of broadband by National Broadband Ireland to over 670 schools across the country; if additional broadband hubs will be put in place in community facilities in rural areas in which broadband connectivity will not be in place in homes and businesses for at least another three years; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that farmers are to be included in the temporary business energy support scheme; when they can expect to benefit from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53149/22]