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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: We should have the Department in at an early stage for reasons relating to how the budget for the coming year is managed and the allocations to the groups working in the community. That is why I would seek to have the officials in at an early stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Colm Burke: It is actually €29 million.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the development of technological universities including the way that each fits with the strengths economically and otherwise of the region they serve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58573/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in which a person for people who have identified themselves as Covid-19 positive in accident and emergency units have to isolate them from other patients attending the same department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58377/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a nursing home loan application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58566/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 682. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government has recognised the high levels of post-traumatic stress, mood disturbance and moral injury that an organisation (details supplied) has identified amongst nursing home staff during the Covid-19 pandemic and which need to be incorporated into planning supports for this workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58958/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding that has been provided to help deliver employee assistance programmes or other counselling programmes to the nursing home staff that are dealing with post traumatic effects of the Covid-19 emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58960/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to ensure gerontological care within nursing homes and beyond is appropriately resourced and valued by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to acknowledge the gravity of the strain that has been placed upon staff in nursing homes and the broader health services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58961/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 686. To ask the Minister for Health the appropriate supports the Government plans to bring into effect to support staff in nursing homes and the broader health services in living with the lasting effects of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58962/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 767. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to engage with the land mobility service to incentivise young and potential farmers and new entrants to utilise the service in order to deliver generational renewal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to work with farming organisations to help spread awareness of the land mobility service which has been greatly affected in terms of awareness events during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58922/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to his Department providing funding to the land mobility service in order that it can acquire the adequate resources needed to achieve optimum delivery for the desired service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58923/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for bringing forward the Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021, which I very much welcome. Given the comments made here earlier on the crisis, it is important to understand that yes there is a crisis in housing and we have faced difficulties over the past number of years, but there have been good news stories too. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: This week there was announcement in Cork by a company that it intends to carry out a €350 million development in the docklands area. Part of that development comprises a 130-bed rehabilitation hospital. We have been looking for an elective hospital in Cork for a number of years and we still have not identified a site for that hospital. This year, we have 200 fewer beds available in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: Once a person finishes providing care, he or she should not be penalised further. I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the changes to the carer’s allowance and domiciliary care allowance announced in budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57475/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: This question concerns changes in the carer's allowance, which I welcome. What happens in the case of someone who provides care for a period of seven or eight years and who is then disqualified from many other schemes? This person took time off work to be a full-time carer for both parents, who have now died. He looked after them for eight years and now finds he does not qualify for a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. I very much welcome the changes because anyone who is providing care to his or her elderly parents is saving the State a huge amount of money in real terms. This is about cases where caring stops after a parent has passed away and carers are coming back into the system. I ask the Minister to examine this so that people can come back into the system and not be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the representatives of the Department for their presentation. I have questions about sports capital grants and the underspend in 2020. I think there was a €14 million underspend from a budget of €28 million. I am concerned about that because the grants provided to sporting bodies are essential to continue to upgrade facilities. Why was no provision made for that...