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Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: It has happened where people from the Opposition have been invited to technical briefings and people on the Government side have not.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (21 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: It has on a few occasions.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the safe routes to school programme in Cork, in particular setting out, in tabular form, the number of schools that will be included in the programme; to provide a status update on the roll-out of these projects under round 1 schemes and round 2 schemes in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what engagement has taken place between his Department and the DAA, with a view to having the appropriate level of car parking spaces available in Dublin Airport and Cork Airport ahead of the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30116/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given to permitting those who retired early from the public service or State agencies to take up employment again in the public service or State agencies without losing their current public service or State agency pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Water Services (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given by his Department to engaging with Uisce Éireann with a view to reducing the cost of connection charges for first-time purchasers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a family reunification application by a person (details supplied) will be prioritised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out in detail the evaluation criteria used for the decision-making process for the granting of tree planting licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30294/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if under the new forestry programme 2023-2027, it is intended to maintain the heathlands that emerged following the deforestation of our ancient woodlands or native woodland re-establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 289. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department will take to ensure greater funding is provided for parents under the national childcare scheme to reduce the cost of childcare and ensure greater availability of full-time places in childcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30287/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clarify the current position of the Blackpool flood relief scheme; when work will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31046/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average waiting time for driving tests; what progress has been made to date in reducing the five-month waiting time for driving tests experienced by applicants earlier in the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31235/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clarify the current position with the An Post pension fund which was set up in 1983, wherein there has been no increase in payment since the economic downturn in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30521/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status for an application for emergency works (details supplied) for toilet facilities; when a decision is likely to be made in this case in view of the fact that these are urgently required to accommodate 42 children enrolled for September in the school which has recently become co-educational, that a delay in this project could...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the Ireland-New Zealand Joint Research Mechanism pilot research initiative; the progress that has been made to date on the four projects funded under the initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 636. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that funding will be put in place to enable the new dental hospital to be built in Curaheen, Cork, given planning permission was granted for this project over three years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific timeline which he and his Departmental officials have given to HIQA to complete its HTA regarding the provision of an enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s age cohort; if he will outline the scope of this HTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to expediting the conducting of a HTA to be carried out by HIQA into the provision of an enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30831/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (27 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify if he has engaged with the universities with a view to increasing the number of Irish students who can access dentistry courses in view of the fact that there is a substantial increase in the population and also taking into account the number of dentists who will be retiring over the next five years; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Endometriosis Association of Ireland for its presentation here this morning and for all the work it is doing in this area. I was in contact with someone before this meeting. A patient of theirs attended at an accident and emergency department over the weekend in severe pain. The person had already been diagnosed with endometriosis. She had already been diagnosed but medical...