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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Could additional supports be put in place at this stage in view of the new challenges that exist? In view of the pressures people may have financially etc., is the Commissioner satisfied that we have adequate supports in place for ordinary members of the force?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement that his Department has had on import substitution of particular agriculture produce impacted by the Russian war on Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (31 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the first home shared equity scheme; when it is likely to be introduced and applications permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17231/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available to people to buy second-hand homes; if further measures will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17232/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will urgently be made available to Cork City Council to repair a heating system for a local authority housing estate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16884/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if support will be urgently be made available to Cork City Council to repair a heating system for a local authority housing estate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by his Department in approving the report that identifies the site of the proposed new elective hospital for Cork, if the report and the recommendations contained therein have been referred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (30 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has set a timescale for the construction and completion of the new elective hospital in Cork given the large population increases in the Cork area and the lack of adequate hospital beds in the region; the steps that will be taken in the meantime to deal with the capacity issues in hospitals in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...

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]