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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the specific new steps his Department is taking to protect the most at-risk age cohorts in Ireland against influenza, in light of the excess mortality recorded in the most recent winter flu season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26185/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2023)
Colm Burke: As the Tánaiste is aware, there was a huge extension to Mallow hospital. It is a four-storey building. There are 48 rooms between the second and third floors for hospital beds. Between the ground and first floors, there are 40 rooms - 20 rooms on each floor - and the whole idea was that they would be developed as rehabilitation facilities. There now appears to be a question mark over...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: I thank the Chair. I thank all the officials present from the Department of Justice. I very much appreciate the presentation and the work they are doing. I have a question about the new women's prison in Limerick. I understand it is completed but not open. Will the officials clarify when it is likely to open, in view of the fact it has been fully complete for some time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: It will be July of this year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: I will move to an issue I have raised a number of times on missing persons and the lack of co-ordination of information. I am aware the coroners have assembled a list of 44 unidentified sets of remains. In 2019, I proposed there be a central person appointed to oversee this. Now we have got some work done on this, is the Department going to do further work in the form of having far more...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: I move the legal aid system. A review was carried out entitled Criminal Legal Aid: Overview of current system and potential lessons from an international comparison. I think there were seven recommendations in that. Have they been implemented? If not, when are they going to be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: There have been complaints by the legal profession in relation to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: -----how the remuneration they are receiving was reduced drastically back in 2008 or 2009-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: -----and has not been reviewed. Where are we with that review now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: Where are we with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: How long is the matter with the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: Does the Secretary General mean more than six or 12 months?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: Are we likely to have a response on this matter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: What is the status of the review if the decision has been with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for some time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: In fairness, this issue has gone on for quite some time. We had a substantial reduction ten or 12 years ago but no increase in that period. We now have a concern where people are dropping out of the system and, therefore, we may run into problems. Are we talking about a timescale of the end of July, September or December? Surely we are entitled, and they are entitled, to have some kind of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: Can we tie down a time on this thing? We are talking about a substantial reduction that occurred more than 12 years ago and nothing has moved since.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: If Mr. O'Callaghan is back next year will I get the same answer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: I think Mr. O'Callaghan accepts that this issue needs to be resolved because it has dragged on for quite some time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: It is the only area where there has been no change in 12 years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Colm Burke: Is the roll-out of the forensic science laboratory near completion?