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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: That is not correct. For example, if a private nursing home decides to take in someone today and the health of that person deteriorates over the next three or four years, then the standard of care provided and time required to provide that care will increase but the home does not get any increase in the payments to it in three or four years' time, whereas it is a different scenario in a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: We are concerned that unless nursing homes get some idea about what is going to happen, they will have to close. The responsibility for looking after the people who are now in private nursing homes will then come back to the HSE and the public nursing homes, which may not have capacity. We also have the other problem. For example, I spoke to a person yesterday whose family member has been...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Moloney.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Regarding all these plans for what needs to be done, one of the issues that is not being dealt with by any Department is the workforce requirements for delivery. If we look at the building industry at the moment, its workforce is way below the numbers we had in the period from 2000 to 2008. We cannot deliver a whole lot of projects without having the workforce in place. I do not see any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tackle anti-social behaviour in Irish cities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52459/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the details of the newly launched rural safety plan 2022-2024; the planned outcomes of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52458/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the negotiations between his Department and the medical consultants' representative bodies in respect of the proposed new consultant contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when a site will be identified for the building of a new elective hospital for Cork; the timeline for the design, applying for planning and building of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the action that is being taken by his Department to help keep down the cost of diesel and petrol which is used by the commercial sector, in view of the fact that the suppliers now appear to be operating on a far higher profit margin than any time over the past 20 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the agreements that are in place between the Office of Public Works and local authorities in respect of removing debris and trees which have become trapped in bridges crossing rivers; the action that his Department and the OPW are taking together with local authorities to ensure that there is not an adverse outcome at these bridges as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position in awarding a contract for the Glashaboy flood relief scheme; if he will outline the likely date when the contract will be awarded; when work is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position in awarding a contract for the Blackpool flood relief scheme; if he will outline the likely date when the contract will be awarded; when work is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 243. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will confirm that 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 that Collins Barracks, Cork will be the location of the headquarters of the military formation that will control military operations in the southern region; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a 22-seater bus will be commissioned to accommodate students (details supplied) given that an additional 18-seater bus has been put in place however four students are still without a seat for this route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Budget 2023 (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 298. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will confirm the way the €60 million announced in Budget 2023 to support community and voluntary organisations with energy costs will be allocated; the framework for assistance under same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52396/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for the presentations this morning. I want to address the safe access zones and the legal definition. Would the Department not agree that there could be a scenario in prosecutions where ten different judges could each come to a different conclusion? Is the Department satisfied that the legal definition is adequately set out so that decisive action can be taken against a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Will the legislation cover, for example, a scenario whereby someone decides to park a vehicle with all sorts of messages on it but the person responsible is not present in the vehicle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Is the Department satisfied that the legislation would cover that scenario even if the person is not there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: One of the groups that made a submission stated that due to its broad scope and the extent to which it infringes the freedom of expression and the freedom of assembly, in its view the Bill is a violation of Bunreacht na hÉireann and the European Convention on Human Rights, which both provide clear protections for those rights. The view of the group is that the Bill will most likely not...