Results 8,401-8,420 of 11,322 for speaker:Colm Burke

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I know, but the ratio of nurses to GPs compared with other jurisdictions is much lower than it should be here. I say this because nurses can do an awful lot of the work GPs are doing but we do not have sufficient numbers of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I refer to the five-year programme for neurorehabilitation in the community. Is there a sufficient commitment by the HSE and the Department to implement it and deliver on it or is there too much pressure? There is huge pressure on our hospital system and then on the other hand - and I raised this in the Dáil with the Minister this morning - I am trying to get people out of hospital at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: Regarding funding and the difficulty in persuading the HSE to come on board, is this being put under the disability area as opposed to community care funding? Would there be a difference if a new programme of enhanced community care was developed rather than it being put under the disability area? What is the thinking on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: We are really talking about enhanced community care. I am wondering about it being compartmentalised, meaning there is a certain amount of funding for that section and a certain amount of funding for the other. Can that whole process and the thinking around it be improved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Colm Burke: The Neurological Alliance of Ireland comprises 30 organisations and brings many people together, whereas in the HSE each individual area very much operates separately, which causes its own problems. Is there a lesson to be learned from the fact that the Neurological Alliance of Ireland can get everyone to work together for a better service for everyone in the community with a particular...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made in expanding the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24392/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I ask the Minister to outline the progress that has been made in expanding the hot school meals programme and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I welcome this decision. There are quite a number of DEIS schools in my constituency of Cork North-Central. I welcome the fact that the hot meals programme will be available in all DEIS schools from September. One problem with rolling out and expanding the programme is that we started off in 2020 with 30 schools on the hot meals programme. Now it is up to 500 but the Minister believes we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I recall being involved in a pilot project which provided meals at breakfast time when the children came into school. That had a huge effect in getting children into school. Likewise I believe this programme will have a huge advantage for schools, especially DEIS schools. I very much welcome the decision. I hope that all the schools being targeted will be able to offer hot meals from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I would like to support my colleague on this matter. There was huge commitment and dedication by medical staff throughout the Covid period. There were there to do the best possible job for people who had Covid or other medical care requirements. People contracted it as a result of their commitment. We cannot ignore that some people have long Covid. They contracted it in their place of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Missing Persons (24 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for coming to the House to deal with this issue. In view of a recent meeting where coroners presented details of more than 40 remains on which they have information but who have not been identified, will the Minister give consideration to the establishment of an office of State forensic pathologist to complement and support the work of the State pathologist, coroners,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Missing Persons (24 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. My understanding is that the Coroners Society of Ireland, the Office of the State Pathologist, the Dublin District Coroner, the missing persons bureau of An Garda Síochána and Forensic Science Ireland support the proposal I am making. I presented it to the Department and the Minister of the day five years ago, but it is only in the past three weeks that we...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Chair. I thank all the officials present from the Department of Justice. I very much appreciate the presentation and the work they are doing. I have a question about the new women's prison in Limerick. I understand it is completed but not open. Will the officials clarify when it is likely to open, in view of the fact it has been fully complete for some time?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: It will be July of this year.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move to an issue I have raised a number of times on missing persons and the lack of co-ordination of information. I am aware the coroners have assembled a list of 44 unidentified sets of remains. In 2019, I proposed there be a central person appointed to oversee this. Now we have got some work done on this, is the Department going to do further work in the form of having far more...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I move the legal aid system. A review was carried out entitled Criminal Legal Aid: Overview of current system and potential lessons from an international comparison. I think there were seven recommendations in that. Have they been implemented? If not, when are they going to be?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: There have been complaints by the legal profession in relation to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: -----how the remuneration they are receiving was reduced drastically back in 2008 or 2009-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: -----and has not been reviewed. Where are we with that review now?