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Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: It appears, however, that €299,000 was given to a British company.

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Mr. Black might come back to me on the specific issue of the €299,000 that went to the British company because that is what is showing up in its accounts. I have two questions with regard to the second issue I want to ask about. First, is this company that the SBCI is dealing with the only non-bank on-lending partner that provides an invoice financing facility on behalf of SBCI?...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I am dealing with a company at the moment that employs 80 people, has had a major downturn because of Covid-19 and has difficulty currently in getting finance even though, in terms of the banks, it is 80% guaranteed by the State. What does the SBCI do with an organisation like that where its own bank is now reluctant to give it additional funding? It needs to keep its 80 employees to keep...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Reid and the other witnesses for their work in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. I will make a comment and I do not want a response on it. It is about cohort 4. It is important to outline to people, with regard to the cohort with underlying medical conditions, whether dialysis or chemotherapy treatment, that vaccination will not be delivered immediately to them but that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: On the challenges facing the health service, for hospitals located outside of the main centres of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, it is difficult to fill a huge number of posts, whether they be registrars, senior registrars or senior house officers, SHOs, because the number of people coming in from outside of the European Union now is decreasing as well. We are also finding it difficult...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Does Dr. Henry accept that it is challenging to fulfil consultant posts, SHO posts and registrar posts because we do not have enough people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I have raised the issue of surveying people who are leaving the health service on a number of occasions. Today, we received a letter from Ray Mitchell saying that there is no national scheme to conduct a detailed survey of the people who are leaving the service, be they administration staff, nursing staff, care assistants and doctors. As some very good people are leaving, why not set up a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Can we plan for that now to help the health service retain very good people? It we did that we could analyse the issues, for example, in a hospital, in an administration section of the HSE or any section. It would be great to learn from why people have arrived at their decision to leave and move on to either other countries or other services within the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I received a very detailed email from a public health consultant who is now in Australia and he worked in Tallaght before. Where are we with the issue of public health doctors not being treated as consultants? Will the issue be resolved within the next six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I will send Mr. Reid the email because it is very good and shows that we have lost a very good person to another jurisdiction.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister, his staff, all of the HSE personnel and the GPs who are working very hard in rolling out the vaccine. There are two issues I want to raise. Although it is a bit down the road from being delivered, the first issue concerns those in category 4, for example, patients on dialysis and people on chemotherapy treatment, who were brought from category 7 to category 4. I want...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a reduction in class sizes at all levels in DEIS band 1 schools in view of the reduction of class sizes in mainstream primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11363/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that a centralised database for missing persons will be established which would include DNA samples from their immediate families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10998/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 654. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider establishing a centralised database for storing information in respect of bodies which have been recovered but which have not been identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10999/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider establishing a centralised unit on forensic human identification which would co-ordinate information both in respect of persons that are missing but also in circumstances in which bodies are recovered but not identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11000/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will make contact with all coroners offices to collate the data on unidentified remains going back up to 70 years, which in the long term would ease the workload on gardaí and coroners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11001/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 815. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the five=kilometre travel limit for those seeking to exercise and who will not be engaging or interacting with anyone during this exercise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11364/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 956. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort group that those with bronchiectasis fall into under the vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11928/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 959. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort or group in which persons with cystic fibrosis fall under in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: 968. To ask the Minister for Health the cohort or group in which persons with hypertension fall in the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11965/21]