Results 6,881-6,900 of 11,299 for speaker:Colm Burke

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Is there information that the GPs would be able to feed back to the HSE that would be of assistance to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: On the availability of the vaccine, what is that likely to be over the next six months? Is the position regarding access likely to change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Say by the end of the March of the coming year, what numbers do the witnesses think that they will be able to make available vaccines available to? We were talking about 6,000-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Do they think that they may have been able to access sufficient vaccines to vaccinate the 6,000 by March of the coming year? Are you talking about maybe-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department plans to introduce additional funding for apprentices to support them to continue in their apprenticeships in view of the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51687/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that is being taken to support businesses with the cost of petrol and diesel, particularly those that employ drivers, in view of increased prices since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pupil (details supplied) with a diagnosis of autism who changed school and was notified transport would be provided under the school transport scheme for children with special needs service under the new school will receive this service, given their parents have been informed this service is no longer possible; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Budget 2023 (19 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: 298. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will confirm the way the €60 million announced in Budget 2023 to support community and voluntary organisations with energy costs will be allocated; the framework for assistance under same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52396/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Will we have a better idea of the numbers in six months or will it be an ongoing rolling situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: On long Covid, in her opening statement, Dr. Ní Bhriain said that between 10% and 20% of people had continuing symptoms for a number of months thereafter. What percentage are we down to six months after getting Covid? Do we have any idea at this stage of the percentage of people who continue to have symptoms six months after first getting Covid? Has any kind of analysis been done as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Have any international studies been done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: On the issue of the age profile, I know that many older people contracted Covid. However, with regard to the age group under 20, I have recently come across a number of families, including the family of a child of 11, who have had serious problems with long Covid. Have we any idea of the number of people aged under say, 20 years, who are suffering long-term effects as a result of contracting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: What kind of numbers have the six clinics that are up and running dealt with to date? Have we any idea of the weekly numbers they are dealing with? That would give us an idea of the referral rate as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: What kind of overall number would the six clinics be seeing per week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: On the GP issue, are we keeping them up to date on what they can access and where the services that are available are? Have GPs been fully briefed on all this and are they being kept up to date on new developments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Are they coming up with any percentages as to those who still have symptoms, for example, six months after initial infection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: That kind of figure would give us an idea of what we are talking about. The last thing we need is for there to be a waiting period to access those clinics. We must ensure we do not build up a waiting list as is happening in many other areas. We must be able to respond to the demand. Are we satisfied the six clinics that are set up are dealing with the demand that is currently there?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for coming in today. My apologies for arriving late but I had other meetings to attend. On the overall expenditure by the Government, part of that expenditure is funding that is provided by the relevant Departments to local authorities. Does the Department believe there is enough scrutiny of how local authorities use that money? I know they are accountable to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: Have there been cases where the Department has expressed concern in relation to the allocation of funding, and it not necessarily being used in the area that it was assigned to? I know there is a local government auditor but have concerns been raised with the Department in relation to this issue?