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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional supports will be made available to DEIS schools to assist them in the coming academic year following a prior year in which a significant amount of learning was done either remotely or through home-schooling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45573/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school bus route for a school (details supplied) will be reviewed in order that it may include Ballyknockane Road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45572/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 183. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 184. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for a national diabetes register; the reason there is no current register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45324/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I will ask about the staffing issue and the challenges we currently have in relation to it. In some areas we are having difficulty getting psychiatrists and doctors, but have we a sufficient number of places for the training of people in, say, psychiatric nursing and related areas? Are we producing enough graduates in those areas if we are to plan for the future? In particular, we need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: The other issue I will raise is that of people who wanted to do nursing or psychiatric nursing but, for one reason or another, did not get into it and are still working in the health service. Is there adequate provision for them to go back to education without having a huge loss of income? Can we have a level of engagement with them to encourage them to move up along the line in relation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: The other issue I want to raise relates to rural areas. We have had a number of very serious incidents in the south and south-west regions, where there have been a number of tragedies. Has anything additional been done regarding public health nurses, or anyone working in mental health services and people working in the community, especially in rural areas, in order to deal with the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I will ask about the different areas within the HSE. I am in the south-south-west area. Is there a major variation between services available depending on the area you are living in? Is there an urgency and a far greater need to upscale the level of support being provided compared to what is being provided at the moment? Are the witnesses concerned about particular areas? I know they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Is there any evidence that co-ordination is occurring? It is fine to say we need more staff, but have we any evidence of direct communication from educators and people producing the graduates, whether it is through Further Education and Training Awards Council, FETAC, 5 or FETAC 6 courses for care assistants, etc., or engagement on what the service needs? One of the areas I am working on...

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

Colm Burke: On the issue of vacant properties, would it be possible to get an up-to-date report on what progress has been made on dealing with that issue? This arose during our discussion of this issue, given that many properties had been vacant for a number of years.

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

Colm Burke: Yes, thank you.

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

Colm Burke: We need some kind of response from the Department. I am getting concerned as I have come across an Office of Public Works contract recently where five tenders were sent in and the job was offered to the lowest bid and then to the next lowest. The four contractors with the lowest tenders all walked away from the project and the company with the highest tender has accepted that contract....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Agreements (21 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to resolve the issues being experienced by importers of used cars from the UK in respect of proving the preferential origin of cars manufactured in the UK prior to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44950/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Part of the area to which the Minister referred is in Cork East and some of the Midleton area is coming into Cork North-Central. I wish to ask the Minister about targets for 2020, 2021 and 2022. I acknowledge that Covid had an effect and that the target set in 2021 as regards the number of connections will not be reached, but can changes be made to make sure that those targets can be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason an area (details supplied) is one of the few areas in the country not to have been prioritised to date in the implementation of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44059/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: My question relates to my constituency, Cork North-Central, one of the few areas in the country not to have been prioritised to date in the implementation of the national broadband plan. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter? The area is within a radius of 10 miles to 12 miles of Cork city.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: The report my office received from NBI in the past week suggested that Inniscarra, Kerry Pike, Clogheen, Tower, Blarney, Grenagh, Whitechurch, White's Cross and Carrignavar will not even be considered until 2025. I have seen the map, which was also made available to me, and it appears that about 80% of the constituency, which is within a radius of 10 miles or 12 miles of the city, will not...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the HSE and all the staff for their work over the past 18 months. It has been a very challenging time. May I raise the issue of procurement and its management? A complaint I receive from people working at local level in IT, which relates to all areas of procurement within the HSE, is that those making the final decisions are very much coming from the administration side and that...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: The complaint made to me was that while people are asked to feed into the procurement process, they have no input whatsoever when the final decisions are made. Their concern is that the decision makers are not the people who have the expertise. They believe problems will continue to arise, particularly in relation to IT and new equipment, unless the structure is changed so people with...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: May I ask about the IT section of the HSE? It is a huge organisation. There are many big hospitals and the whole health service. Where are we in terms of a five-year or ten-year plan? What progress has been made? Have we clear targets set out for each year between now and 2026?