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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, for being here to deal with this matter. I am concerned about the stand-alone sewage treatment facilities that were built right across the entire country back between 2000 to 2008. Companies then ended up in NAMA and no one seems to have taken responsibility for the management of these sewage treatment facilities. It came to a head in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of his Department and the HSE in prioritising the development of primary care eye teams in CHO6, CHO7 and CHO9 in 2022 with a view to extending these teams to other CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the transfer of care for children aged 8 plus years to local optometrists to reduce waiting lists and enhance access to primary eye care services; if the anticipated six- to-nine-month timeframe for conclusion of this project in 2022 is on target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8631/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to fund the HPV vaccine catch-up programme for those who have missed out on the HPV vaccine in first year of school for any given reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8633/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the Department and HSE. It has been a challenging two years. I thank everyone involved in dealing with the Covid issue and the challenges posed by it. I want to move on to the here and now and where we go from here with regard to healthcare in Ireland over the next five to ten years. One issue that will occur and already exists is with difficulties in recruiting. I am concerned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Watt mentioned retaining people. One issue with junior doctors is that if they come in from outside the EU or EEA, they will not get a stamp 4 visa until they have been here for at least five years. There is a proposal to reduce that to two years. My understanding is that it is now stuck in a logjam between the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and, I believe, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: The reason I am raising this issue is to do with young people also. Many young qualified nurses and doctors traditionally go abroad after having qualified or having done one or two years here. That has not happened in the past few years. Whether we like it or not, a substantial number of young trained people will leave this country. Are the HSE and the Department of Health planning for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I will move on to capacity in Cork and the wider Cork-Kerry region. I received a telephone call at 10 o’clock last night from a member of a family whose mother had been in the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital, CUH, since Sunday night. After 50 hours, this 92-year-old woman was still in the accident and emergency department. There is, therefore, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Even as regards identifying the site, the HSE has a 100-acre site at Sarsfield Court in Glanmire. The hospital could be built block by block there into the future. This is about long-term planning to ensure we are not looking for additional space in three, five or ten years. There is 100 acres of land owned by the HSE that is underutilised. Let us at least identify the site so that we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: It is that kind of delay where-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: -----we lose valuable time. We also have problems in that we have consultants who are lucky to get a half day per week in operating space because they cannot get access to operating theatres. That needs to be looked at and that was done by the gynaecology services in Cork where there were 4,500 on the list. They got time in the Mater Private. The consultants went down there and cleared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Can we look at fast-tracking the project to building stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: In 2021, funding was made available for the building of two new theatres. Everyone expected they would be finished by November 2021. It turns out that a contract for the building was not signed until November 2021 and we are now talking about July or August of this year before those two new theatres are built. Can we not deal with the type of delay occurring in the healthcare sector? Why...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleague from Cork North-Central with regard to an elective hospital for Cork. The South/South West Hospital Group made a presentation to the HSE more than three years ago. An advertisement was put in place almost 12 months ago now looking for sites to be identified and here we are. Even if we identify a site in the morning, we have to get a design team in to design it, go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I agree we need long-term planning. One of the things about long-term planning is making sure we do not identify a small site and then say we do not have adequate space in five or ten years’ time. It is important we identify a site and get on with the planning process. The planning process is going to take us a minimum of 18 months. This is now a priority. There is not sufficient...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 78. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to announce the site of the proposed elective hospital in Cork; if a site been identified; when planning will be applied for and construction work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of all projects involving hospital extensions in the Cork area in view of the large increase in population and the lack of an adequate number of hospital beds in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7679/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 399. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total number of passports issued for each month from 1 January 2021 to 31 January 2022, by the number of passport renewals and the number of new passports for each month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 695. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the benefits of the participation of five Irish hospitals in the European Reference Network on Rare Diseases; if participation will help further national plans to support persons with rare diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7647/22]