Results 1-20 of 220 for going forward speaker:Colm Burke

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Green Party Senators for bringing forward this motion. I thank all Senators for their constructive contributions. I believe 12 Senators contributed to the debate and I appreciate all of their contributions. The Minister for Health is not opposing the motion. Therefore, it is important that in dealing with something like this we work together and are constructive. The motion,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...by her Department with regard to the establishment of a transfer/relocation scheme for post primary school teachers to stem the teacher retention crisis; to outline in detail her Department plans going forward in addressing this issue; if engagement is taking place with stakeholders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6377/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...announced last year. I hope the same will be provided again this year. In fairness, when moneys are provided to community organisations, they use the funding very effectively and deliver very good services. One of the areas that needs some focus is new communities where there is a huge growth in housing. We are not doing enough forward planning when developments go through the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...her Department in relation to the establishment of a transfer or relocation scheme for post-primary school teachers to stem the teacher retention crisis; to outline in detail her Department's plans going forward to address this issue; if engagement is taking place with stakeholders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52790/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (28 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...those recommendations would be looked at to see how they could be put in place. The 2018 Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health report was quite specific on the avenue that the Department could go down to try to expedite the process for people with a rare disease. We need to remember that for somebody with a rare disease time is of the essence. If they cannot get access to medication,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ..., and it particularly applies where someone has been out on sick leave. They have been genuinely out, and then income levels have dropped. For instance, I know of one application where I was going back and forth on behalf of an applicant, and the parents were as well, for over eight months. I wonder about the SUSI grant process. There is no process, really, for Oireachtas Members to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (9 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I welcome the second-last paragraph of the Minister of State's reply, which states that the Minister intends to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023. The problem is that all the GPs who signed the contract understood that when they got income under the GMS scheme, it could go into the partnership account. The practitioners are not looking for such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: When are we going to get there? Having one central file for each person has been proved to have produced a significant saving in Denmark. Remember that 1.6 million people are already on the system so why has it been long fingered for the past ten, 15 or 20 years? When are we going to move forward on this issue?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 938. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to ensure going forward a fair and dignified income, a proper quality of life for farmers and their families and to attract young and new people into the Irish farming sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48239/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...Skills what action his Department is taking to attract women into agriculture specific scholarships, educational programs and third level courses and increase female representation in these areas going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48839/23]

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

Colm Burke: What kind of date is Mr. Gloster talking about before we can go forward for planning?

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: ...can be created. An area of concern is that a huge number of organisations deliver healthcare services. The health budget is €22.5 billion for this year but more than €6 billion of that will go to 2,500 organisations that receive their funding from the HSE or the Department but are not under the remit of either. They provide really good services but there is a question as...

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

Colm Burke: The additional cost because of building inflation is €55 million but Mr. Gunning does not believe that they are entitled to validly claim for inflation costs going forward.

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Burke: ...my colleague, Deputy Cullinane, acknowledged the part the health service has played in making sure that we have increased life expectancy of 11 years in the past 50 years - our life expectancy has gone from 71 years to on average 82 years. A huge contribution to that is people being more aware of how to mind their own health but also the contribution that the health service, GPs, doctors,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: ...2023-2027 to a more compacted and applicant friendly planting licensing process, in view of the ever-lengthening licence application process for approval to attract more applicants and investors going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40778/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (13 Jul 2023)

Colm Burke: ...the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to the implementation of regular external reviews of RTÉ whereby an independent root-and-branch examination of the organisation would be carried out going forward, in view of what has transpired in recent weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34490/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (29 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: ...for Education and Skills to outline the work completed to date under the pilot programme of counselling and wellbeing/mental health supports in schools; her Department's plans for the programme going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31607/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: ...obstetrics and gynaecology. It will even be difficult then, when one gets a consultant, to have one specialise in this particular area. I am wondering how the association sees that developing now going forward. There is no point in having one major clinic in Dublin or in Cork. We also need people to have access to care outside of large centres of population.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of elective hospitals. The Secretary General referred to this. We have identified a site in Cork and appointed a design team. When is it believed we can go forward to making a planning application? Is there a timeframe? I fully understand the Department does not have overall control of the design team but timelines are being set out. What timeline are we...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: ...for sheep farmers, in order to provide much-needed additional support to sheep farmers, encourage young farmers to enter and continue sheep farming, and ensure that this type of farming is viable going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27310/23]