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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I heard that this morning. I gave the example this morning that a cable is being run from a pole 200 yd down the road yet a house which is less than 25 yd from the pole will not be connected by the operator-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: -----is because the house that is closest to the pole is in the amber area and the other house is not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Where there is capacity, and in a great number of cases there is capacity, why has there not been engagement in respect of trying to resolve that issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: No, that is the case here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: My question is whether there has been engagement with the other providers to try to resolve some of those issues. If we could get an additional 40,000 or 50,000 houses connected through that mechanism, would it not be worth going down that road of having that engagement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Moving on to the issue of hubs, it was admitted earlier that there is a delay in the roll-out in quite a number of areas. We have connected 200 schools. Because of Covid, many people now work from home. In my constituency, areas that are less than 5 miles from Cork city cannot get broadband, yet there are community facilities that, if a central hub was provided, would be of benefit to a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I have been contacted in respect of three communities. In one parish, there are more than 900 children in primary school, which gives a sense of the number of people in the parish. About 50% houses in the parish do not have broadband connectivity. I am advised by Cork County Council that it has spent all the money it has received and it is not prepared to engage further in respect of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I have sent details of the three areas to the Department and I have not got an answer. The county council has told me it is not its problem and it does not have the money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I have sent them to Mr. Mulligan's Department and I will send them to the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, I will. This is about trying to help areas where it will now be 2026 before they are connected. We can take action to assist families in those areas. There are 900 children in primary school in one parish, another 900 in secondary school and probably a further 300 or 400 students in third level. This is the area I am talking about where less than 50% of households have connectivity....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on IDA Ireland’s employment results for 2021; the regional spread; the factors behind the level of job increases; the level of job creation anticipated in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 92. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on Enterprise Ireland’s employment results for 2021; the regional spread; the factors behind the level of job increases; the level of job creation anticipated in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6854/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Services (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to raise awareness regarding mental health and well-being of farmers and others working in the agri-business sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Promotion (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the work undertaken to secure new markets for Irish agri-businesses in particular new markets overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken to ensure that patients and carers are involved in the health technology appraisal process of new treatments for rare diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made an assessment of the impact of the Patient Organisation Submission Process in the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in achieving its aims of improving patient involvement in the health technology appraisal process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken to develop rare disease data registries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on an all-Ireland network of rare disease registries as called for in the National Rare Disease Plan for Ireland 2014-2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7129/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there were 641 children and young persons waiting for CAMHS services by the HSE in Cork as of December 2021; his plans to reduce this waiting list; when it is anticipated that this list will be eliminated entirely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (9 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will consider adopting new regulations prohibiting the sale of scrap metal by cash without valid identification and proof of address of the sellers of scrap metals in order to improve on traceability of sale of scrap metal and to curb scrap metal theft; and if he will make a statement on the matter....