Results 3,081-3,100 of 11,597 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific timeline which he and his Departmental officials have given to HIQA to complete its HTA regarding the provision of an enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s age cohort; if he will outline the scope of this HTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26183/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expediting the conducting of a HTA to be carried out by HIQA into the provision of an enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26184/23]
- 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.