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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]

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

Colm Burke: 981. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the current vaccination programme and place carers who look after vulnerable persons in their own home as a priority. [12000/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I confirm I am in Leinster House. I thank Mr. Moloney for his presentation. I also thank him and all of his staff for the work done in this area. As he outlined in his report, they have saved the State money. I want to raise an issue that is not referred to in the report. It is with regard to the mechanism for dealing with urgent decisions. When we faced into the pandemic urgent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Are there lessons to be learned from it? Do we need to have a better structure in place to deal with this kind of situation into the future? What lessons have we learned over the past 12 months in dealing with it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: On Brexit and the effect it has had on the tendering process, what difference has that made with regard to contracts? Has it made any difference or is there a situation where we need to be more careful because of the new rules that apply as a result of Brexit in dealing with contractors or suppliers from the UK?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: Has the OGP identified those challenges? Is there any particular one that has arisen since the changeover on 1 January?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: On the statement made by Mr. Moloney with regard to the €4.5 billion in contracts, is it possible to get a breakdown of the relevant Departments to which that relates? He spoke about savings of €570 million. There is nothing setting out where those savings were made and the area in which they were made. Is it possible for the committee to get some details on that particular...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I am sorry but I have only one or two minutes left. Where contracts were entered into and additional costs subsequently arose, is it possible to get those figures also? If, say, we have a contract for a specific amount and the contract ends up costing more, is it possible to get details on contracts where the end-day costs were far more?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I wish to go through the challenges that are currently facing the health service. Many staff are very tired and drained because of the challenges they have had to face over the past 12 months. The information I am getting back from a number of them is that we may very well have far more people leaving the health service over the coming 12 months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Colm Burke: On the issue of the challenges that staff have faced over the past 12 months, is it proposed that a process will be put in place to assess how they can be assisted? I have not heard of anything new being done in the HSE over the past 12 months. I know there were administration challenges in the same way as there are challenges with regard to front-line staff. Surely we should be putting in...