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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I want to move on to another issue. A large number of children are in foster care but there is a certain group for whom foster care is not available. With regard to the accommodation that is needed, does Tusla believe there needs to be substantial additional investment in that area? Is there a clear plan set out for dealing with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What is the number in residential care on any one day?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Has there been a substantial increase in that figure and does Tusla anticipate there will be a further increase?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What is the plan after people turn 17 and 18 years of age? These are people who require a substantial degree of support. What mechanisms are in place once they reach the age when it is technically no longer Tusla's responsibility? Is Ms Duggan satisfied that there is sufficient follow-on care? I know it does not come under Tusla's remit.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Is Ms Duggan satisfied with the aftercare support system at the minute? It is something I have come across quite a bit. People have got substantial support when they are younger and then as they get older, that support is not in place, and they end up engaging in criminal activity.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of how the population of the country has substantially changed in the sense that we have huge numbers from abroad. We have more than 530,000 people now working in Ireland who are non-Irish and, therefore, we have a hug number of families where parents are not originally from Ireland. That then poses new challenges within Tusla's area. How is Tusla now developing...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: May I ask one more question, Chair?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Finally, the other issue is unaccompanied children who have come in from abroad. I know quite a number have come in from Ukraine. In any one year, what is the average number of children coming in now? How are we dealing with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I do not think it would be unusual. UCC, for example, which came up today,has inhouse legal advisers but gives a lot of work out to different law firms. The HSE invites companies to tender for its work. I do not think it has an inhouse legal team. A lot of private companies have inhouse legal teams but a lot of work also goes out. It depends on the nature of what is involved. Legal work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Yes. Could I just touch on one thing? I know I was not present when it was discussed. I refer to the UCC issue. I am not sure whether the Comptroller and Auditor General said in his report he was happy with the explanations given. I apologise for not being here when it was discussed earlier.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: That is all right. I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The correspondence seems to indicate, as I understand it, that the business case for Toy Show The Musical did go to the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Did it not?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There seems to be some correspondence about it being given to the board.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What action is the Department taking in evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways? I ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There is still a problem when an older person ends up in an accident and emergency department for different reasons. All of us, including the Minister of State, have been contacted by people who have an elderly family member who has spent 48 hours or more in an accident and emergency and still not been assigned a bed in a ward. It is very distressing for the elderly person involved but also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 46. To ask the Minister for Health what progress has been made in the delivery of the new surgical hub for Cork University Hospital; the up-to-date position with regard to the new elective hospital in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9699/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 60. To ask the Minister for Health the Government's position in respect of the European Union's revision of pharmaceutical legislation given that EU Parliamentary Committee votes are expected in March 2024; if he supports proposals to reduce regulatory data protection for manufacturers; to outline the impact that such a reduction will have on patients; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue planning guidelines in relation to the development of residential care homes and primary care centres to ensure that they are appropriately designed and located in areas with access to public transport and other amenities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6953/24]