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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: On the co-ordination of those two waiting lists, are our guest speakers saying that there is no co-ordination?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: Is it not about co-ordination? Surely we should be able to co-ordinate services where someone is admitted to hospital and to a particular area but it is then found they have a totally different condition. There is the co-ordination then of the transfer over of the patient. The person may have been admitted as the result of a fall but suddenly finds they have a heart condition and there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: The whole historical issue with regard to mental health was that we literally parked the person in a facility and that was it. We have moved on from that but we have not replaced or provided the necessary support. The co-ordination of services is the one key area we are falling down on. Is that lack of co-ordination an easy exercise to resolve?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: Do our guest speakers believe that if the will was there to resolve it, that it could be resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank our witnesses very much.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making properties in the private rented sector eligible for funding equivalent to the better energy warmer homes scheme for low-income tenants and their landlords, based on a tenant receiving the housing assistance payment and having a long term lease; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set aside increased funding in respect of the rural public transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56651/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 329. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will engage with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of a different approach now being adopted by the Revenue Commissioners regarding the VAT 58 refund claims by non-VAT registered farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 318. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a refundable tax credit that would return unused portions of the PAYE tax credit to low-income workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance what action his Department is taking to appoint a board for the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal to deal with appeals under the disabled drivers and passengers tax relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56696/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 330. To ask the Minister for Finance if due consideration will be given in coherence with Food Vision 2030, to the review and optimisation of the tax treatment of investment by agtech companies in research and development for products and services which can support sustainability goals at farm level,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56899/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 343. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of the number of seizures of illicit fentanyl by the Revenue Commissioners for each of the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the estimated street value or worth of those seizures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 345. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of the number of seizures of ketamine by the Revenue Commissioners for each of the years 2018 to 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; the estimated street value or worth of those seizures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 454. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the increased cost of business scheme announced as part of Budget 2024 will be made available to businesses along with the criteria for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1932/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her guidelines for primary school teachers in respect of homework; if there are plans to re-examine this policy or make any changes in the coming years; whether investigations have been carried out as to whether this workload should be reduced and the benefit this would have for children in the area of creativity; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take the necessary steps to develop and extend the pilot Programme of Counselling Supports for Primary Schools into all primary schools and post primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56630/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expand the programme of counselling and well-being/mental health supports to post-primary schools targeting pupils at key transition stages in education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56661/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give due consideration to delivering free schoolbooks to second level students, beginning with a pilot programme in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56642/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ring fence dedicated funding to enable children suffering from economic disadvantage to participate in in-school activities such as drama, music, educational and cultural school trips; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56644/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set aside funding for the purposes of expanding mental health and wellbeing supports for secondary school students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56650/23]