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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for their presentation. I will first discuss the availability of rehabilitation beds. In Cork planning permission has gone in for a private unit. If that project is built will there be a role for such a facility in view of the fact that there is a shortage of rehabilitative beds and there does not appear to be any proposal coming from the Department of Health or the HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Ms Rogers must accept that it would be extremely expensive for someone to pay for a period of rehabilitation. I mean that rehabilitation is not something one can undertake today and come out tomorrow. It takes a period of time. Therefore, its role in just providing care for people who qualify under, say, private health insurance might cause difficulties so the only way that it can be fully...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I ask the delegation to compare the current rehabilitation facilities with what they feel we should have. What additional beds would we now require in real terms? If we decided in the morning to provide additional facilities then the delegation would have to accept that it would take us at least three years and maybe up to eight years to build a new facility. However, I understand that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Who has the job to call a meeting of the strategy group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I wish to mention an issue that concerns consultants and specialists in this area. It is a question that I constantly raise with the HSE. We have a certain number of consultants who work in this area so let us consider the care that needs to be provided and long-term planning. Has the number of consultants who will retire over the next few years been analysed? Has the number of people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: How many people are training? How many posts will become available if people finish training within the next five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Posts have been advertised over the last number of years. What number applied for the posts? How long did it take to fill the posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Professor Hardiman not agree that, with the demands from patients who require care, the reason for delaying appointments is not acceptable-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: -----and that there should be a mechanism put in place in order that those delays are not used by others? I am aware of the issue of medical politics; it is the same as any other politics. It can become difficult. However, we need to have a structure in place to make sure no one person or group of people can delay an appointment being made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: What numbers do we need to increase the training posts by?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (29 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will launch the community safety innovation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16241/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (29 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in implementing supporting a victim’s journey; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government’s position on the recently proposed compromise text put forward by some European Union countries, the United States, South Africa and India that would allow some developing countries to authorise the production and use of patented Covid-19 vaccines and potentially Covid-19 treatments without the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of private felling licences issued of the total felling licences issued in January, February and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his departmental officials have held any meetings specifically to address the decline in afforestation applications; if so, the actions that have been taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16620/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Chairman. I apologise to him and to our guests for being late for the meeting. I had a number of prior engagements. I thank our guests for their presentation. I wish to raise number of questions, some of which may have been covered already. My apologies if that is the case. One of my concerns relates to the timeframe, namely, from the time an application is lodged to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: In this particular house, an inspection took place after two years and still no work has been done. We are now running to two and a half years. From the time that the application went in then to the time of the work being done, it is going to run from three to three and a half years.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, my apologies. I was referring to the survey at the start the process.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: The survey has now taken place so when would that person expect to have the work done?