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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for her presentation today and for dealing with and highlighting this issue by having this debate during breast cancer awareness month. The BreastCheck screening programme plays an important part in improving outcomes for breast cancer under the national cancer control programme. It is important that we acknowledge the dedication, commitment and hard work of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: 82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date on the processing of visas, including family reunification applications, for Afghan nationals arising from the fall of the democratically elected Government in Afghanistan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51544/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: What progress has been made on the processing of visa applications, including family reunification applications, for Afghan nationals, arising from the fall of the democratically elected Government in Afghanistan? Will the Minister outline the progress that has been made to date?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Can the Minister of State outline how long it is taking to process applications from the time they come into the Department? In addition, I have written to the Minister about people who are part of the judicial process in Afghanistan and who are very vulnerable because of certain decisions they made when the democratically elected Government was in place. Can priority be given to that group...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Visa Applications (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Finally, is the Minister of State satisfied that, once the applications are processed, we have adequate support measures in place for the people coming here? He might not be able to give me an answer here and now, but I would like to get details of the process and the level of supports in place.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Gloster for his presentation and the information we have received. I may have missed some of the meeting because I was in the Dáil Chamber so I apologise if I go back over issues that have been discussed. I wish to talk about social workers and the demand on the system at the moment from various different areas of the Government agencies. Regarding the recruitment of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: In terms of the colleges, a number has been mentioned. Many different agencies need people with a social work qualification. Have the universities set out a reason they are not increasing the number of places available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: We have all come across people who are very good in youth work and a whole lot of other areas who do not have a qualification. We should open up opportunities for them to go back. What level of engagement has occurred with the universities on that issue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Is there room for further expansion in that area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Regarding people leaving Tusla, are exit interviews and surveys carried out to allow people to outline the reasons they are leaving? Is information available in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: That would be helpful. I was involved in a project in Cork for many years that focused on young people who had dropped out of school. We reviewed the programme of training we were providing because An Garda Síochána referred many of the young people we worked with to us. We reviewed the people who had gone through the programme in earlier years to see how they had fared since....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Is it variable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: In our project, we found that roughly 70% of the young people we were dealing with had gone on to full-time employment. Their family history would not have been great as regards employment, so that was a positive outcome. Regarding this research, should additional funding be provided to enable detailed research to be carried out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: Could there be more co-operation with our third level institutions as regards assisting in that research?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr Gloster.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: For clarification, is this fund related to where there is a car accident and the car owner or driver is not insured or is that a different fund?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: The Oireachtas Committee on Health is also dealing with this matter. I do not think that committee has seen the correspondence we received so I think it should be made available to it. Should both committees be dealing with this? Should a decision be taken about which committee should focus on it rather than two committees dealing with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: I am also a member of that committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: There is a proposal that there would be a visit to the centre, and that proposal will come up in a meeting next Tuesday. It would be helpful if the correspondence we received was made available to the Committee on Health.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Oct 2021)

Colm Burke: A delegation from the Oireachtas Committee on Health will visit the centre. I came across a very similar situation in another part of the country. There were 27 residents in that facility. Nine people died during a two-week period because of Covid and because there were six people per room. I am not talking about the Owenacurra centre in Midleton. It was a geriatric psychiatric facility....