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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department will take to increase the number of general practitioners by an additional 1,260 to 1,660 general practitioners by 2028 in order to meet the needs of population growth and the significant growth of those aged 65 and over 85 years of age who are naturally high users of the service [5005/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 777. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing an enhanced range of supports including but not exclusively tax relief to assist in the funding of premises or critical equipment, infrastructural equipment including information technology systems and medical equipment to assist general practitioners establishing practices particularly those starting off in their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 778. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing a partnership pathway support funding model to allow for existing general practitioners to take on assistants to enter into succession arrangements to take over the practice on a phased basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 779. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department will take to adjust and update the general practitioners practice team model to take account both of the broad range of skills required in practice to meet new models of care and to free up skilled personnel for more complex tasks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 780. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adjusting the general practitioner practice team model in order to support broader general practitioner practice team members by expanding the grant aid available to take on additional nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5009/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 781. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adjusting the general practitioner practice team model to provide initiatives and support for the recruitment of particular allied health professional expertise on a full-time or sessional basis to benefit the broad needs of the patient population including physiotherapists, counselling and pharmacy support; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 782. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given for the development of a structured care programme in the area of women’s health within general practice which would deal exclusively with reproductive health, including contraception, maternity care and menopause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if a review will be carried out into the current package of supports for rural general practitioner practices, taking into account the fact that these supports would continue to be developed and enhanced to meet the very specific requirements of patients in these rural areas to ensure continuity of care for patients and that general practice is sustainable;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the implementation of the healthcare innovation Sligo cataract scheme nationally in which community optometrists co-work with hospital surgeons in order to improve public eye health and address the waiting list for public eye-care which remains high at 46,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5017/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 785. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the implementation of a new eye-care programme for school-going children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 786. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the role of optometrists in providing more services including the delivery of further treatments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5019/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if a greater role for optometrists will be sanctioned by his Department in the interest of improving public eye health and eye-care services across the country and reducing the waiting list for public eye-care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5020/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for the debate last night. I raised this matter during that debate and I want to tie down the particular issue of why there is not in place in the Irish mental health service a regular peer review of psychiatrists and the manner in which they are managing their patients and the prescribing of medication. When a patient is in a hospital setting, there is a team...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: One of the recommendations in the report published by Dr. Sean Maskey was that agreements should be developed with GPs to share the treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, and pharmacists might help if that were to cause difficulties for GPs with regard to medication. Another point in the report was that clear written guides for the use of antipsychotic...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for the efforts he is making to deal with this issue. There are huge challenges, however. Like my colleague from Cork North-Central, I want to convey my concerns about the constituency. Cork is the second biggest city in the country and huge areas now are on the schedule for 2025-26. That is not good enough. We also have a problem whereby Eir is providing...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for their presentation and for the work they have done, in particular over the past two years. It has been a difficult time for those involved in public transport, involving the giving of back-up support. The authority was initially set up as the transport authority for the greater Dublin area and was then expanded to encompass the entire country. Something like...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: Were clear budgets set out for the project over, say, a five-year period? We have spent €86 million to date. Has a budget been set out for the next five years? How will the NTA seek to maintain the costs within the budget as planned?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: Over the next five years, has a clear budget for the expenditure been set out? I accept the NTA has put the proposal to the Government, but does it contain a clear plan for the expenditure over the next five years? Is the NTA satisfied there are specific controls to ensure the project stays within that budget?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: I might move on to the issue of passenger vehicles and the purchase of them. I understand the Government decided in 2019 that no further diesel-fuelled vehicles would be purchased, yet 33 such vehicles were purchased in 2020. My understanding is down payments were made on 109 buses and that the vehicles will be provided for companies that are tendering for contracts. What will the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Burke: Were penalties imposed for not being able to deliver on time?