Results 10,201-10,220 of 11,348 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Some 125 reports - Fianna Fáil must be very proud of this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I want to open up the debate on health care because it is important to state the position. There are 11 maternity units in the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: There are 11 maternity units throughout the country, each of which employes three medical consultants, including an obstetrician and a gynaecologist. I have spoken to a medical practitioner who attended a conference recently at which it emerged that 20 medical consultants were employed at a unit in Denmark at which 3,000 babies were delivered each year. That is one consultant per 150 babies...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: In Ireland-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----there is one medical consultant to every 500 to 750 babies delivered.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: That is the basic position. If the Senator wants to discuss reports-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----he should remember that his party's leader, when serving as Minister for Health and Children, commissioned 125 reports. I do not understand, therefore, why he is referring to one report-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----when his party leader commissioned 125 reports and did nothing about any of them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I do have a question for him. Let us have a debate about health care. Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I wish to comment on the fact that someone referred to the cost of drugs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction, the cost of drugs to the taxpayer increased. It is the taxpayer that pays for drugs, not the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction, the cost of drugs increased from €560 million per year to €2 billion.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Let us debate the matter and examine Fianna Fáil's record while we are doing so. The leader of that party was responsible for commissioning 125 reports, but the recommendations made in them were not implemented.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: The Senator should not be concerned about one report.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Let us talk about the reality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)
Colm Burke: It is the Committee of Public Accounts that is the problem.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)
Colm Burke: It is outrageous that we cannot examine the 25% of the budget that is outsourced.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I pay tribute to Deputy Shatter for the work he has done since long before he came into the Oireachtas. He was the first person to publish a comprehensive review of family law, as far back as 1976, and gave leadership in progressing family law since then. He went on to prepare the judicial separation legislation and was directly or indirectly involved with a wide variety of reforms. It is...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Telecommunications Services Provision (7 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister very much.