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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: What proportion of the 6,000 are in agencies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: No, I am wondering how many of the 6,000 are on agency contracts. It is important that we deal with that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: On the management issue, the hospitals I am talking about are not small hospitals. If something has gone on for 18 years I am concerned about the fact that no action has been taken. I accept that over the past five to six years it has been difficult to do that but it needs to be given priority. It cannot be allowed to continue that there is a lack of continuity. On orthopaedic surgery...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: But it is an issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: I accept that but I find it difficult to understand how someone will wait 24 months on a public list, who has private health insurance, and then get in under the National Treatment Purchase Fund and are prepared to wait two years to avail of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: It is a complex psychological issue but I still do not understand why out of six patients who were referred, four had private health insurance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Could I ask that the issue would be looked at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Are there other issues that we are not being told about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: That is why I am asking it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: I wish to follow up on a question put by Deputy Kelleher relating to approved posts filled on a temporary basis. There are ten approved posts in obstetrics-gynaecology which are occupied on a temporary basis. A report produced in 2003 set a target of 180 consultants in this area by 2012. I understand the number was 130 at the last count. At that time we spoke about increasing the number...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: I have no difficulty with the planning but I do have a problem with the numbers applying for the posts. This will pose a major challenge. When four posts were advertised only two new people in real terms came in to apply for them. That is a difficulty for us this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: And in obstetrics and gynaecology?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: We need to set clear targets on this because we have been making very little progress over the last ten years. I am concerned that we now face major challenges here particularly because it is an area in which there is major litigation. Our chances of reducing the problem are poor unless we have the consultants in place.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: I would also like to be associated with the expression of sympathies to the families of the three people who died in the past few days. They suffered a tragic loss. It is important to commend all the work done in the past 72 hours, at national level down to local community level, where people put their shoulder to the wheel to ensure those people who had to travel could travel safely. The...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Government amendment No. 14 is also in the names of Senators Daly and Clifford-Lee.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: I am sorry, but this is amendment No. 14.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Recommittal is necessary in resect of Government amendment No. 15 as it creates a cost on the public revenue. Amendments Nos. 15, 19, 21 to 39, inclusive, and 46 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Amendment No. 17 is out of order.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Amendments Nos. 18, 20, 44 and 45 are related and may be discussed together.
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)
Colm Burke: Amendment Nos. 40 and 41 are related and will be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.