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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: However, have we put a timeframe in place for upgrading facilities in each of the CHO areas and certain targets we wish to reach? If we do not have the facilities, we have difficulty in holding staff. We could have a repeat of what happened in CHO 4 with regard to not having staff and running into a considerable claims problem. Do we not need to prioritise capital expenditure in all of our...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: 212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons from Ukraine who have come to Ireland since the beginning of the Russian attack who have been provided with housing in private residential properties by the Government and an organisation (details supplied) since the beginning of the war; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: 213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have agreed to provide residential accommodation to Ukrainian refugees through an organisation (details supplied) since the beginning of the war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47743/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (29 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he will put in place to ensure prescribed medication can be accessed by patients who would otherwise need to go into accident and emergency units after 10 p.m. in Cork due to the fact there are no longer late-night pharmacies open past 10 p.m.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: 255. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase direct access to echocardiography for general practitioners through community-based ambulatory care hubs, given 80% of private hospitals provide GP direct access yet only 19% of public hospitals do the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47459/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their presentations and the work they are doing in delivering health services. On the development of healthcare in the community, I want to give an example of where it is not working. I have a case of a 79-year-old who was in hospital with Covid for three months. He lives on his own and has impaired vision. Six weeks after coming out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: Would Mr. Reid not accept that six weeks after coming out of hospital there was no call, and this person is residing not that far from a HSE headquarters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we move on to backup support within GP practices? Has there been any discussion on that issue because, in fairness, GPs are at the coalface and are meeting people every day. Given the volume of work that they now have without any additional support, what engagement will there be with the IMO on that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: Does that support include the employment of nursing staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: What kind of timescale are we talking about? One must remember that we have a huge number of GPs retiring in the next five years so we have a challenge from that point of view as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: Concerning workforce planning, one of the issues I have raised previously relates to people leaving the HSE and the hospital system and exit surveys. Have they been comprehensively introduced in every hospital at this stage to establish the reasons staff are leaving? In some cases, staff have difficulties with the management structure in a particular unit of the hospital, and there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Reid mentioned Mr. O'Dwyer from the South/Southwest Hospital Group. I have to raise the issue of elective hospitals. To retain staff and get a service delivered effectively, elective hospitals are needed. What is the status of the decision on Cork? The submission was made in January to the Department. Here we are almost ten months later and we still do not have a decision on where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: I think I heard that last April as well that we were almost there. We are now ten months later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Colm Burke: What is the timeframe Mr. Watt is setting on that?