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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: That is fine. To go back to the issue of Covid, one of the issues I am finding at present is that quite a lot of people living on their own, who stopped contact with many people during the pandemic, seem to have still maintained that routine. It is one of the things I am a little frightened about, especially for those people who do not have any immediate family. Many of them are in their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: There are still some people who were not necessarily going to the centres before and now it may be the only opportunity for them to get out there, but they may still be reluctant to leave the routine they got into during Covid.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider reviewing the current position where local authorities are not entitled to sell properties to tenants where there are less than three bedrooms in the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5005/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: Last year, the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, started a training scheme where it was bringing people in from outside the EU. More than 100 individuals joined that two-year scheme, which is intended to allow them to practise as GPs here in Ireland. In fact, in our city of Cork we now have a doctor who qualified in Ukraine working on the northside of the city providing care to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: It said it has agreed to the increase, but it has not confirmed that funding will be provided. The ICGP has abandoned its plans to interview people. We cannot afford to have this happen. We could have more than 100 new GPs coming in every year from now on under this scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: I thank the guests for their presentations here this morning and for dealing with the queries raised. It is important that I would raise something at the very start. There was reference this morning to the health service that does not work. It is important to highlight that the health service is working and that there are more than 3.5 million outpatient appointments per annum between all...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: The question I am asking is why is it so long. Take social welfare, for example. In 2022, it issued 302,000 PPS numbers to people from 202 different countries but we cannot do this in health. We have our medical cards computerised and all of that done but we have not computerised our medical records or patient records so that you we not have this crazy waste of time that is going on at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: But that ties in with the other issue about the use of pharmacies, for instance. We have a whole lot of people having to attend GPs because you cannot open up the whole distribution of medication. If it is a non-prescriptive drug, you could go into ten different pharmacies and get the same drug on the one day whereas if all of that is computerised you could give a lot more work out to...
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: But there is a huge saving-----
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: If you go back ten years, Denmark worked out it was saving about €1.8 billion per annum. It goes back to the junior doctor. All his colleagues are going to Australia. He is staying in Ireland. He is an intern. The reason he is staying is that he wants to learn more but he also wants to try to improve the system where others-----
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: I will move on to one or two other issues now. One again relates to a nurse who was working here in Ireland and is now working in London and I have raised this before. This is on the lack of co-ordination as to who is on call or available in hospitals. She would go in to work and 20 nurses should be there. One day she would go in there would be eight senior nurses and 12 junior nurses....
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: It is not in all cases.
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: I have raised this previously and I have received a number of comments from nurses who are so frustrated going into work, trying to manage a facility and not being able to do it because from all of the nurses, there is no other senior nurse available to deal with the issues that junior nurses may want to raise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: Likewise, it is about having the mechanisms in place and ensuring that we do not have junior doctors who are ending up without having access to people up along the line to make decisions as well. Have we checks and balances in place on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: I will raise one other issue on infrastructure and its role and have raised this in respect of the elective hospitals. Where are we now with the two elective hospitals for Galway and Cork? Have we still not appointed a design team in both cases and what is the expected timeframe when we will be applying for planning? I was told previously that we will apply and will have planning by...
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: We must look at the rate we are going at this stage as we have a very significant growth in population of some 40% in 20 years. We do not have an increase in growth in capacity. For instance, we talk about all of the new consultants we have appointed. The complaints I am hearing constantly from them is the lack of access to theatre space. When are we going to have this project-----
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: Does that mean that the project of the elective hospital has been put on the long finger?
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: This can be put out to the market for design, build and finance, which was done, for instance, when I was in Cork City Council. We wanted an extension to the city hall. I remember getting in the tender documents and there were about 12 boxes of documents, per tender. It worked successfully. We had the project done in two years. As a result, now, the cost of doing it is far less than if...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: The private sector have done it. The Bon Secours Hospital Cork has done it and has built a huge extension in three years, with design, build and finance.
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Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) Colm Burke: I thank our witnesses.