Results 161-180 of 994 for cork speaker:Colm Burke

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: ...the figures and I have a full table for every county. Unless this matter is tackled we will have fewer beds available for people. In the past three months I have been trying to get people out of Cork University Hospital. People were in that hospital three to four months longer than they should have been because they could not get an appropriate bed in a step-down or nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 704. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update as to when specialist endometriosis services located at Tallaght University Hospital and Cork University Maternity Hospital will begin to accept patient referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23009/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: In fairness, I think everything has been done by the Department. As the Minister of State outlined, the matter comes under the remit of Cork City Council. We must make sure that a timely decision is made by the council to award the contract and that the person who gets it accepts it in a timely manner in order that we will not have to go back out to tender at a later stage. This is a vital...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I would like to follow up on what Deputy Dillon raised earlier on about the cost of nursing home care. He raised the one issue in relation to Cork, where 73 beds have now been withdrawn from the fair deal scheme. We now have a problem. We have 73 people who do not have beds from now on if they cannot pay for it themselves. I would like to raise the issue with regard to Laois. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: ...fact that at any one time, we have over 500 people in public hospital beds who can be discharged but where that is not possible because we cannot get a facility. I have had a number of cases in Cork, where there were facilities prepared to take them, but they were not prepared to take them at the fair deal price. Can that issue be reviewed?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: ...were ten contracted beds, that facility was prepared to take an extra two patients under the contracted beds system, and the HSE would not agree. It wanted to send them off to outside of County Cork, which does not make sense to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The problem was that there was no money being put in by local authorities to deal with the water services. We are 40 years behind in terms of upgrading. I got a note to my office in Blackpool in Cork the other day. The pipes were being flushed out because some of the steel pipes are more than 100 years old and all the water coming out of them was brown. No upgrade has been undertaken for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of farmers who have availed of TBESS to date; the total number in Cork, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21525/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of individuals who have benefited from the help-to-buy scheme in Cork; if there are plans to extend the scheme beyond 31 December 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21526/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (9 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that his Department will engage with Cork City Council with a view to developing a park-and-ride facility on land the council owns at Monard, Cork, taking into account that these lands also adjoin the Cork-to-Mallow rail line, where it is proposed to build a railway station in the long term; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the current position in respect of properties acquired in Cork city by his Department or by companies or organisations working with his Department in the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, or refugees from Ukraine; if he will set out in full the number of properties currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when funding will be made available for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that when the new five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities is constructed, it will include an intensive care unit that can take care of very seriously ill children who can be cared for in a timely manner without having to be transported at a crucial time; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when the project for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric facilities can proceed to the next stage, given that planning permission has already been received for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (27 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the roll out of the National Broadband Plan in Cork; the total number of premises falling under the NBP remit in Cork; the total number of premises that are now available to pre-order/order broadband and the total number of premises still pending survey; if these figures are on target...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: ...wanting to get people out and the nursing home saying it cannot take them in because they require additional care compared with the normal nursing home patient or resident. I am talking about the Cork area specifically and I am sure it is happening around the country as well. We really do not have efficient use of hospital beds if this is the problem. What can we do to fast-track this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I know that, but I am talking specifically about Cork. We have a problem now in that we cannot physically get people out. We do not seem to have a co-ordinated plan in place for getting out people who have additional needs rather than the normal needs of a nursing home resident. The Minister may not have the answer, but I ask that this issue be looked at. There are at least six beds that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: As to how bad it is now, though, this week I had two families on to me and they were being requested to be placed in a nursing home in Limerick. One of them was living just on the outskirts of Cork city and their elderly parent was asked to go into a nursing home facility in Limerick. There now needs to be a priority in dealing with that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: ...from the deputy acting national director of change and innovation. It states that the HSE is working towards 2028 as an indicative timeframe for operational commissioning of elective hospitals in Cork and Galway.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleague from Cork North-Central. I happen to have been chairperson of Blackpool Community Centre a number of years ago - in fact, when we applied for planning permission for a community centre in Ballyvolane. Unfortunately, however, there were so many local objections that it never got planning. I think the mistake that was made in Ballyvolane was about a site not being...