Results 3,021-3,040 of 11,255 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: This hospital will be the length of Grafton Street.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: The cost of building a hotel bedroom is €120,000.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: I know I am over time but I want to get the truth out.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: A new hospital being built in Ontario is costing €1.608 billion-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: The Senators should check the costings on this and stop trying to delay the project.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: Fianna Fáil wasted five years on the Mater site. It wasted five years on the wrong site.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: It was the wrong place and that Government took the wrong decision.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: All of the information is available. The Senator needs to stop giving out false information.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: There is no spin, just facts.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: The Senator should check the facts.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: Where could the An Bord Pleanála decision be appealed to?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: There is no appeal except through the courts.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: It was not for political reasons. Senator Wilson should get his facts right.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: The An Bord Pleanála decision would have had to be appealed through the courts.
- Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister. The insurance industry has brought about and lobbied for a substantial change in the law. We have a situation where insurance companies still make substantial profits from premiums and we have not seen a significant reduction in insurance premiums over the years. There have been many changes, including the abolition of juries, the changes of procedures in courts and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: Members of this House raise issues of concern but it is also important to raise good news stories. I refer to the CSO figures which have just been released and which show the highest ever number of people working in this country, at 2.28 million, with the number of additional jobs created in the past 12 months standing at 50,500. Some 48,000 of the latter are full-time jobs. This means...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: I want to raise the issue of supervisors and assistant supervisors on community employment, CE, schemes. In Cork last Monday, there was a protest outside the offices of Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in respect of a Mandate decision in July 2008. There was a recommendation that supervisors and assistant supervisors would be brought in under a pension scheme. In...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: -----will proceed and will be delivered on. This is the reality. We have identified the projects which will be affected by the €100 million cut. They are clearly identified and they are set out in writing
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (26 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath for coming to the House to deal with the issue pertaining to the nursing homes support scheme, known as the fair deal scheme. As I understand it, a review was to be carried out but the representative organisation, Nursing Homes Ireland, and all those involved in providing nurse home care under the fair deal scheme were led to believe that...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (26 Feb 2019)
Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. My only concern is with the definition of "shortly". This matter has been going on since 2016. There are complex issues involved. The problem we now have is that there are complex cases in the private nursing homes sector. These homes are not being funded to the same level as HSE-run facilities. To give the Minister of State an example, I know of two units...