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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of recipients of the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme since the year of its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11967/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the support from his Department to help make all public transport services accessible, in particular public transport outside the capital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11968/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when transatlantic flights will resume from Shannon Airport; the supports which have been provided to the Shannon Group to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11969/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date in respect of the development of drone policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11970/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of heavy goods vehicle driving tests provided; the pass rate from 1 September 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna for persons suffering with inherited retinal diseases (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he will correspond with the HSE Executive Management Team to request it to reconsider the decision regarding the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if consultations have taken place in order to improve the cost effectiveness of the gene therapy treatment luxturna (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna which complements national policy objectives as set out in the Programme for Government to update the Rare Diseases Plan and the promotion of research particularly clinical trials which are key to improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for the presentation. I will open with the issue of checks and balances in the context of our mental health services. If a consultant is working in a hospital, be it in orthopaedics or surgery, there are checks and balances in place within that hospital's structures. In our mental health services, there are no checks and balances. Even if one takes it that a consultant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: No, I am not talking about non-consultants. I am talking about the checks and balances that are currently in the mental health services. If a consultant is appointed, who reviews the work that consultant is doing? In a hospital structure, there are checks and balances because there are a lot of management systems. However, in the context of mental health day services, I am asking what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I am sorry for interrupting, but if that system was there, this was a problem from 2016 to 2021. That is five years. How come nothing showed up if that structure was actually in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: But Dr. Young accepts that there is not a structure currently in place. I know we are talking about a non-consultant doctor in this case, but even with consultants, does Dr. Young not accept that there is not an adequate structure in place to cross-check their performance and the work they are doing in the mental health services as they are currently structured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Can I go back to this particular case in which there was a non-consultant doctor-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Going back to what occurred in Kerry, where there was a non-consultant doctor working for a period, I am asking about the structures and governance of that case. As to the position not being filled, a period of 12 months would not be unusual for a consultant post not to be filled but, in this case, it was running into two or three years. Why was a proper structure not put in place such as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: If the person did not come to give an account and explanation in regard to the programme, the number of people they were dealing with and how they were treating them, surely, that should have set off the alarm bells. We are talking about a period of four years when no one appeared to be in charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Was it not the case then of putting in someone who the non-consultant doctor would have been accountable to on a daily or weekly basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Is it not true to say that the consultant would also have had a very heavy workload in their own area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Was a request ever made for adequate additional support to be put in place for the south Kerry area regarding mental health services? In particular, when the consultant post was vacant for a considerable period, why was a locum not put in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: When there was a difficulty in getting the consultant post filled, was that not the time to review the putting in place of a different structure so that someone was in overall charge? It appears to be the case that no one was in overall charge.