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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Two centres were closed down.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I agree with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Access to two major centres was no longer available to people.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Is it not the case that where a centre is closed down and a hospital is closer than a centre, which may be three or four miles away, people will tend to go into the hospital and, as a result, additional people who should be going to a GP out-of-hours service end up in accident and emergency?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I accept that. When people are aware that a centre is closed, they will feel there is no point in ringing SouthDoc and will decide to go to the hospital, such as the emergency department in Mercy University Hospital or Cork University Hospital, rather than going all the way out to the Kinsale Road. That is what tended to happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: It might be interesting to look at how many people turned up to emergency departments who could have gone to a general practitioner's surgery.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Reid and all the people in the HSE for their work over the last 18 months. It has been a very difficult time for everyone. I want to touch on the last issue Mr. Reid dealt with. With regard to the funding for SouthDoc, I note from my notes that in 2019 the funding for SouthDoc was €8.3 million, my figure for 2020 was €12.3 million and for 2021 it is €7.5...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: It sounds like a huge increase, in particular when facilities were closed. Another issue is in regard to facilities that closed. For instance, Blackpool, which is on the north side of Cork city, was closed down. With regard to access to the facilities on the south side, there is no public transport, so a facility was closed down that people on the north side of the city and the rural area...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Could we have a reason for the substantial increase in funding and how that funding was allocated during that period? Those are the figures I have. I know the witnesses may not be able to give that to me now but they might give it to me subsequently in writing. I want to move on to deal with the issue in regard to the value for money report in regard to nursing homes. We have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: The question I am asking is what additional funding was then provided to the public nursing homes at the same time and what additional supports had to be put in place.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: What is the difficulty with the value for money report? This has been going on for over three years and costs have increased in the meantime. There are complaints from the private nursing homes about having difficulty retaining staff, but part of the problem is funding. The other issue with funding is this. When people go into a private nursing home, they are assessed as regards the level...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: In fairness, it was to be published in quarter 2 of this year. We are now into quarter 3 and we will soon be into quarter 4. Is it going to be published by the end of quarter 3?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Colm Burke: Can the Department respond to the Committee of Public Accounts setting out a guide as to when is likely to be published?

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...