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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: With regard to the timeframe, there is no question or doubt but that there are major challenges in Cork. Should private hospital facilities be lease or otherwise acquired to deal with the long waiting lists in the Cork and Kerry region? Should consideration be given to that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am asking whether we should either buy a private hospital or lease one for a number of years until the elective hospital is built because we have great demands, consultants cannot get access to a theatre and there is not a sufficient number of beds. There is a great number of people working but they are feeling frustrated because they cannot get their lists dealt with. Can we look at that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Woods would accept that if we are building a new elective hospital, we are talking about a certain period. Some projects have taken eight years. What are we going to do in the meantime? When are we going to decide to make additional capacity available for the people employed by the HSE who have the expertise but cannot get to do the work they want to do?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 27. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the current position for the new elective hospital in Cork; if his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have now agreed on the project; if the hospital will contain new inpatient beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if the new elective hospital proposed for Cork will have in-patient beds; the timeline proposed by his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to sign-off on the proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department is taking to deploy new technologies such as telehealth that support the wellbeing and health of vulnerable and isolated groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26720/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (26 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the HSE and its medical team to identify the strain of meningitis which has recently resulted in a number of admissions to hospital; if a course of treatment and care is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s work and progress towards implementing Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26782/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: In arriving at the strategy for 2022-2024, and looking at previous strategies, were goals set out in those previous strategies? Could more have been done? Do we need to always keep two-year strategies under review to see what additional support the Garda needs in the course of its duty and in trying to deliver a safe place for everyone to live in?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Alan Dillon. Will the Minister outline her ongoing support for the Garda Síochána Inspectorate and the mechanisms for monitoring and appraising its performance? When does she expect An Garda Síochána's strategy statement 2022-2024 to be published? Will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Considering the strategy for 2022 to 2024 and the ongoing review that the Minister outlined, are there major changes in the approach the Garda is taking in particular areas to help to reduce the level of crime? Are there what might be called substantial major changes in the approach that the Garda is taking in particular areas as regards helping to reduce the level of crime? That might be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to improve the operation of the criminal trial process for victims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26076/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her legislative priorities in relation to tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26075/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that are in place to reduce the waiting time for employment permits to be issued for non-European Union citizens; if additional staff will be employed to deal with the backlog; if a decision on all applications can be made within a four-week timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26306/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 656. To ask the Minister for Health when the full complement of the 24 additional lactation consultant posts created under the 2022 National Service Plan will be filled; the number of posts that have been filled to date; the timeline for a person to be appointed to all of these posts created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26304/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I will focus on the issue of public contracts, in particular, public private partnership and the way forward. I am concerned about the process of the putting in place of public contracts, as a result of which a major cost is being added to the contracts. I will cite the example of a contract with which I was directly involved. It was a school premises where a new school needed to be built....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: With regard to the system in Departments, whether it be the Office of Public Works, the Department of Health or the Department of Education, does the Mr. Moloney accept the process involved from the time we decide on a project, to it going for and securing planning, to getting it up and running is far too slow? Does he accept that process needs to be reviewed, given that in the private...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I will cite the example of a project where a local authority got a project done from start to finish in two years. I had the privilege of being Lord Mayor of Cork from 2003 to 2004. I had a very good city manager, Joe Gavin, there at that time. We had many properties rented for staff around the city. He wanted to do an extension to City Hall. He got companies to tender, design, apply for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: We ran into problems with some public private partnership projects. What mechanisms need to put in place to ensure with public private partnerships there needs to be an external oversight on behalf of the relevant Department to make sure all that is set out in the contract is being delivered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Moloney see that mechanism now being used? He said nothing has been done since 2015. That is seven years ago. Is Mr. Moloney saying we now have the expertise in the Departments to make sure we have all the mechanisms in place, if we go down that road?