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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I fully accept what Mr. Gloster is saying about staff. I agree that 99.99% of staff are dedicated and committed to the work that they are doing, but they are getting frustrated by not having the infrastructure. That is one of the problems that we now have in the Cork region. We have a significant growth in population but we have not had growth in hospital facilities in the last 23 years....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Two projects have planning. The paediatric hospital in Cork has full planning. Where are we with that? The second is Mallow General Hospital. A four-storey building has been built, with 24 rooms on floor two, 24 rooms on floor three, and 40 rooms between the ground floor and first floor. Nothing has been decided about what those 40 rooms would be used for. Where are we with that? We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: In this regard, is efficiency-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I am talking about step-down facilities that should be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I am not necessarily talking about Mallow; I am talking about the number of contracted beds. For instance, I had a difficulty trying to get someone who had Huntington's disease out of Cork University Hospital. It was difficult to find a facility that would take that person because of the particular challenges involved. There is no plan to deal with the various challenges that our hospitals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: On the whole issue of planning, the increasing population and the challenges faced in hospitals has been discussed. Is there a need to get people who are occupying beds in hospitals out faster, something on which progress has not been made in the past three to four years? That does not appear to have changed in the past four years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: The point has been made to me that it was not safe because if you have only two senior nurses with 18 junior nurses-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: We have a problem with rehabilitation, for instance. The only rehabilitation facility is in Dún Laoghaire. There was talk about a rehabilitation facility for Cork 25 years ago. Is that a possibility? I am not talking about a facility for Cork alone, but for Munster. Is it feasible to examine the Mallow project from the point of view of a rehabilitation facility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: There is challenge in respect of rehabilitation facilities, however. There is a long waiting list. People are blocking up beds in hospitals because they need to get into rehabilitation facilities. There is also not an appropriate level of step-down facilities to transfer people to while they are waiting to get into Dún Laoghaire. That is also a challenge within the hospital system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: The point I am making is that there are 600 beds occupied at any one time. Perhaps it is 500; it varies from day to day. What I am saying is that, in many cases, there are not appropriate step-down facilities to transfer people to and that, as a result, people are staying in hospital beds while people who are waiting to get into hospital cannot do so.

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I very much welcome the work the Minister has done over the past two to three years. There are challenges in healthcare provision and a supplementary budget will be needed to deal with the expenditure of an additional €1.5 billion this year. There are issues we need to look at in dealing with healthcare. It was interesting to hear the Sinn Féin spokesperson on health...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: I too thank all the people involved in providing back-up support yesterday, such as the city council, the county council, the fire services, the Civil Defence, the Army and the Garda. They did a fantastic job in very difficult circumstances and it is important we acknowledge them. I raise the issue in Blackpool, which the Tánaiste referred to earlier. I know there are people who...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Is there enough joined-up thinking between education and placement in workplaces? As with getting apprentices the required training, people doing degree or diploma courses need to get placement in the workplace at the same time as studying and as part of an overall package, rather than it just being purely academic or purely focused on the college itself.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm the number of students that will benefit from measures aimed at those in further and higher education in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45740/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister confirm the number of students that will benefit from measures in budget 2024 aimed at those in further and higher education, particularly in the area of apprenticeships?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: There is a substantial amount available to increase the number of apprenticeships in various areas. The Minister now needs to look at increasing the number of places in our third level institutions for key areas such as healthcare and others. Taking dentistry as an example, in some colleges up to 50% of the places are taken by students from abroad because the colleges are trying to get...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: Chairman, I am now caught as I am due in the House.

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: If they do not mind.

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: My apologies about that. It is just that I am in on questions with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. First of all, I thank the witnesses for being here this morning and for the information they have given. On the contract and the inflation clause in it, under the contract there is building inflation. What additional cost has occurred as a...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: That is purely, not as regards additional claims-----