Results 21-40 of 221 for going forward speaker:Colm Burke

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]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: ...Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the number of people who benefitted from the social protection lump sum payments; if further cost-of-living measures will be considered going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24393/23]

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

Colm Burke: I wish to go back to the issue of the elective hospital. I know I dealt with it and the roll-out of this in the past week with the Minister. I am extremely concerned about CUH. The reason I raise the matter again is the issue of getting people out of CUH. It now appears that the bed management team have a huge problem in trying to get step-down facilities for people who require full-time...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (18 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: ...date of 28 February 2023; if applications received include applications for each of the 21 areas in the pilot scheme; if consideration will be given to extending the programme to other rural areas going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17014/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: ...has been great for sports clubs right across the country. Community centres under the Department were covered the last time. About €4.6 million was allocated through the Cork regional loan. Going forward, how does Ms Hurley see this developing? The other issue I would like to raise on this is that although there are community groups that are very proactive, know the system...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: .... I will open by saying the concern I have is about the delay in the Department dealing with issues. The Ombudsman published a report in 2001 dealing with nursing home charges. In fact we can go back as far as 1976 to the Maud McInerney case, where the Supreme Court decided that nursing home care came under the definition of medical care. Yet going forward to 2000, no action had...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Jan 2023)

Colm Burke: ...respect of the newly launched local hackney pilot programme; the number of rural areas this programme will operate in; if consideration will be given to extending the programme to other rural areas going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1952/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for making the time available to us, for their presentation this morning, and for the discussion paper published in October. It has a lot of very good information and it is about planning the way forward. I am coming from a scenario I saw some five years ago when I was in the UK. At the time there were more than 5,000 GP vacancies there. In the area we were in,...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15 - Collection of VAT on e-Commerce
Chapter 16 - Revenue's Suspension of Periodic Reviews of Tax Clearance Certificates
Chapter 17 - Overstatement of Certain Unallocated Tax Deposits (8 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Okay, so we are talking about around €23 billion. Going forward with the changes, are we talking about increasing corporate tax to 15% on the one hand while on the other hand there is the downsizing because of the location where profits are allocated? What do we need to start planning for to take this into account? Have we any idea what we should be planning for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Colm Burke: Can I move on to another issue? It is the whole challenge we now have at primary care level as regards GPs. We have a large number of GPs over 60 years of age and as to forward planning, it is not just for next year but for the next five to ten years. As for the issue of keeping as many people as possible out of the hospital system, one of the big complaints from GPs is the lack of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Promotion (23 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I very much look forward to the European Commission publishing its report and the recommendations in that regard. It is important we lead out in respect of those recommendations. I accept there is a cost factor and also an issue with recruiting people to deal with any changes that are brought about, but if we have a screening programme, we will save a great deal of money in the long term....

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: The Committee of Public Accounts is about value for money. As I said, a large proportion of the prize money in races is coming from the Exchequer in real terms. Does Mr. Nyhan believe looking forward that we can reduce the amount of money from the Exchequer going towards the provision of prize money? I understand that in order to keep the industry going, there has to be prize money. Does...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: ...in the middle and lower end of survival rates across all invasive cancers in the EU15 countries during the same time period, to improve survival rates and save additional lives of cancer patients going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54534/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: The other issue that I want to raise relates to the homes of medical practitioners and staff working in medical facilities. Are we satisfied that we have done enough? If we bring forward legislation which clearly prevents anyone from protesting or in any way intimidating anyone attending such a facility, the next available option is to go to the homes of medical practitioners but also staff...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...the work Deputy Butler has done since she became Minister of State regarding making sure funding is available. The current pressure means that nursing homes would like if the Department came forward with proposals at the earliest possible date. We are discussing the opening of four new nursing homes, but 16 have closed. The major change that is coming is that there are currently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...in and making sure they are satisfied that the changes required also accommodate their concerns and that they are taken into account. How would the Minister see the level of engagement with them going forward, at this stage?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the review of the Global Ireland Strategy which commenced at the end of 2021; if this review will alter the objectives of the strategy going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48550/22]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...the next. That applies to doctors and consultants as well. Consultants have difficulty giving the time that trainees require in certain hospitals. I heard of one junior doctor who had a very good consultant working with her who made sure she had an opportunity to come to theatre and be involved in the whole process from the ward right through to theatre. The next hospital the junior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...Dublin, because all the focus with regard to children's healthcare has been very much about Dublin, we have now got planning permission for the paediatric unit in Cork. Where are we with regard to going forward with the project in Cork now? While the focus has been totally on Dublin, there are 731,000 people now living in the Cork and Kerry region alone. There has been a huge growth of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: One of the things we do not want is a situation where people have to go to Dublin when we can provide care in Cork if we have the facility. The problem we now have with the pediatric unit in Cork is that it is no longer adequate for the population in the area. We have got planning permission. The issue is not that we need to get planning and do a design. That is all done. All the...