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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 51. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on the operation of the public participation networks; her plans for further developing this structure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43688/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Preparations (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of Brexit preparations from his Department and its agencies for 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43684/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Farm Safety (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work that is underway in relation to farm safety including training and other assistance to farmers in order to help reduce the number of fatal farm accidents and non-fatal accidents each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41562/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the terms of the Irish Aviation Authority 1996 superannuation scheme were amended in 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44317/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Irish Aviation Authority members were not informed of changes to the Irish Aviation Authority 1996 superannuation scheme in 2012 and were not given mandatory notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to rescinding the 2012 amendment of the Irish Aviation Authority 1996 superannuation scheme given that his Department has now been notified that the rationale for its introduction was based on misinformation provided by the IAA and a subsequent admission by the IAA that the measures should only be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if pension in payment increases will be awarded as guaranteed under section 41(5) of the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44320/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the authority under which the board of the Irish Aviation Authority decided not to award pension increases given that such authority is vested in the Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44322/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the authority under which the board of the Irish Aviation Authority instructed the trustees and actuary to make no provision for future pension increases when determining the fund liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44323/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provisions or supports have been put in place for persons who have contracted Covid-19 and as a result have been unable to work due to prolonged ill health and who require an indefinite period of work leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who have contracted Covid-19 in 2020 will be included in priority groups under the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if clinics for those who have suffered from Covid-19 have been established in hospitals in order to manage patients with complications as a result of a Covid-19 diagnosis or who require follow-up care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44292/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 552. To ask the Minister for Health if a national strategy will be put in place pertaining to the operations of clinics for those who have suffered from Covid-19; if consideration has been given to the ring-fencing of funding either at local hospital group level or national level for persons who have contracted Covid-19 and as a result have suffered prolonged ill health; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to classifying Covid-19 as a long-term medical condition in view of the long-term ill health and complications experienced by some who contracted the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing co-ordinated services on a national level for persons who have contracted Covid-19 and are since recovering but require follow-up care or referrals to specialists where necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44295/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if a co-ordinated national strategy on follow-up care for those who have contracted and been affected on a long-term basis due to Covid-19 has been discussed between his Department and hospitals with post-Covid clinic facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to awarding a consultant contract to existing specialists in public health medicine as per the recommendations of the Crowe Horwath report, the Scally report and the report of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44305/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing targeted measures to recruit and retain hospital consultants across all specialties to increase the number of consultant posts in line with the recommended ratios of the national clinical programmes and the postgraduate training bodies and to address the shortage of hospital consultants in Ireland in comparison...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to increasing the number of basic and higher postgraduate specialist training posts in order to meet the demand with the number of posts front-loaded in year 1 accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of consultants required to provide training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the modernisation of postgraduate specialist training reflecting changes in the practice of medicine and the changing demographics of doctors in training by establishing a differentiated model that provides clearer career paths with greater predictability of training arrangements, greater predictability at the outset of...