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- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to arrange for Cork City Council to put in place temporary flood defence barriers in an estate (details supplied) in view of the fact that over 25 houses recently suffered severe flooding and this is the second occasion on which it occurred; if the necessary funding will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position of the Blackpool flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52140/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Meetings (28 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to arrange for her Department to appoint a liaison person to deal with the residents in an area in County Cork (details supplied) which suffered severe flooding recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51911/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: There is a section in the planning Act so-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: -----let us use it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: Many houses suffered severe damage as a result of recent flooding. Some people have had to spend over €100,000 in refurbishment and replacing furniture. In order to take remedial action we have been advised it may have to go through the planning process. Can the Department work with local authorities on using section 181 of the Planning Act 2000 in order to expedite flood relief...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)
Colm Burke: It is an emergency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I would like to agree with colleagues regarding the 100th anniversary of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It has had huge achievement over that 100 years, and long may it continue. We have been very good and successful with regard to both the democratic system and the management of expenditure in this country. It is a job well done over the past 100 years, and may it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: The replies we get in the appeals process seem to be someone ticking boxes. No matter what element of social welfare or Revenue I am dealing with, within 48 hours I will get a response to state the issue is being dealt with or a detailed explanation as to why a decision was made in a particular way. Here I find that explanations are not given and it is very hard for us to explain to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: To take radiation therapy as an example, the colleges tell us they need funding to employ additional people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: It is very straightforward. Trinity College has said it is prepared to increase its number of places from 30 to 50 overnight if it gets the funding for additional staff. Likewise, UCC is prepared to double the number of places overnight, from 12 to 24. Even if we do this, it will still take four years to have Trinity graduates and two years to have UCC postgraduates. At the same time the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Approximately 50% of dental places are going to students coming from abroad. Can we have something in place by September next year to deal with a lot of these issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Can we get a report a some stage during the year on what progress is made on this issue? It is a big challenge. In nursing, medicine and dentistry, we have a number of people coming in from abroad to provide a great service because we do not have the people here who are qualified. I would like a report at some stage during the year on this issue. I want to touch on another issue, which is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I am specifically talking about co-ordination between third level institutions here and in Northern Ireland. For instance, more than 40 years ago, the Washington Ireland Program was set up, whereby young people from both communities could work in Washington for a period of six or 12 months. Nothing like that appears to have been developed between our universities nor have any incentives...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: What I find strange is that I did this in respect of Shanghai 20 years and it worked. Shanghai is a long way away.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: In Cork city, we now have more than 8,000 purpose-built student units. They have all come onstream over the past ten years. Between the last six months, and in the coming 12 months at least 1,500 more spaces will come onstream. The problem is that the ownership and control of a lot of the student accommodation is with a small number of companies. The rent, therefore, that students are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: Does Dr. O'Reardon accept that if I set up a business in the morning and spend €100,000 setting it up, I can write that off against tax? If I am investing in a future career I am not entitled to do that. I am not asking that the Department pay the cost of college fees. I am saying there is an incentive there to deal with it. A number of people involved in that area presented a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: A period of time after they have qualified. In a lot of cases, as with someone doing medicine or dentistry, they are doing placements during the summer months so they are not really earning. They are not given the opportunity to earn. They are paying fees and accommodation. They do not have any income. When they finish and have spent all of this money, there is no benefit there for them....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Colm Burke: The other question was on control of rents where there is now a small group controlling between 70% and 80% of the student accommodation. As a result they can dictate high prices for student accommodation.