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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the safe routes to schools programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of recipients of the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme since the year of its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11967/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the support from his Department to help make all public transport services accessible, in particular public transport outside the capital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11968/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when transatlantic flights will resume from Shannon Airport; the supports which have been provided to the Shannon Group to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11969/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date in respect of the development of drone policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11970/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of heavy goods vehicle driving tests provided; the pass rate from 1 September 2021 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna for persons suffering with inherited retinal diseases (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if he will correspond with the HSE Executive Management Team to request it to reconsider the decision regarding the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if consultations have taken place in order to improve the cost effectiveness of the gene therapy treatment luxturna (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the reimbursement of the gene therapy treatment luxturna which complements national policy objectives as set out in the Programme for Government to update the Rare Diseases Plan and the promotion of research particularly clinical trials which are key to improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by his Department to date in respect of the reduction in public transport fares by approximately 20% as part of measures to help with the cost of living; the timeline of when this measure will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date in respect of the process to procure up to 80 double-deck battery electric buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11947/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I will move to the junior doctor issue, which has been raised. There is a problem with getting junior doctors in many smaller hospitals such as Letterkenny, Mayo, Drogheda or even Clonmel. Going outside the major centres such as Cork, Limerick, Galway and Dublin, many of the hospitals are finding it difficult to get junior doctors. In previous schemes there may have been a rotation of...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I am aware of that but this relates to staffing.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I have raised the stamp 4 matter over the past two months. Everybody is telling me it is progressing but nobody is telling me the timeline. Are we talking about the end of June or July? Are we talking about next December? There are many people staying here in the hope they can get sorted out but they are finding if this is not sorted by July, for example, when they are applying for the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I just wanted to raise with the Minister the concern I have on the people in the HSE, in particular the consultants who are due to retire. There does not seem to be a mechanism in place, because the complaints I am getting back from hospitals around the country are that nothing is done about recruitment of the replacement until the person has actually physically retired. That will be a huge...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: It is not happening. It was happening 20 years ago and for some reason there was a different structure for recruitment 20 years ago. The structure was totally changed. I have come across consultants who, two years after they retired, are still inside the facility as a locum because no replacement has been identified or put in place.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: In fairness, in my own constituency, for instance, there is a new extension being built to Heather House, which will provide accommodation for 60 extra beds. Likewise, we bought the golf links hotel at Blarney, and as I understand an extra 50 beds will go in there. The question is when will those facilities be ready to take the step-down patients and can those two projects be fast-tracked....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for being here. There has been a lot of focus on the drawdown of funding. I am interested in the structure to protect the organisation with regard to securities, etc. What checks and balances are in place to make sure there is adequate security? We had a problem with the banks in the past. Representatives from the National Asset Management Agency were before the...