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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: A recent study - and there have been a number of them - by agri-mental health group Farming Minds in UCD found that 23.4% of farmers are considered at risk of suicide, 50% of farmers are currently experiencing moderate to extremely severe depression and almost 40% of farmers are experiencing moderate to extremely severe anxiety and stress. That report and other reports have been produced...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: It is important to highlight this issue, as I said, with the farming organisations but also to work with other groups in rural areas. There was a time when if you were, say, a dairy farmer, you went to the creamery and you met others at IFA meetings, Macra meetings or ICMSA meetings. However, a lot of meetings now are held on Zoom so there is not the same social contact. That is why it is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has now received an up-to-date environmental impact study in respect of the Blackpool flood relief scheme; the timeframe for when the public consultation will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16513/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: This question is related to Questions Nos. 102 and 103. I wish the Minister of State well in his new role in the Department of public expenditure. My question relates to the Blackpool flood relief scheme, which was initiated in 2013. In the past 12 years, little or no progress has been made on the matter. Has the Department received the up-to-date environmental impact study in respect of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for his reply but I am getting no answer to the question I raised. I asked when the Minister of State expected to have the environmental impact study back. When will we have a public consultation? When can we move on with this project? It is 12 years on and we have not made one single step forward on this project. I am frustrated. The fact is the OPW submitted the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: Can we get a timeframe for when the study will come from the OPW to the Department of public expenditure? When will we have a consultation? Have we a guideline? Will it be in three, six or 12 months' time? I fully understand the Department has to be extremely careful because it was a judicial review. However, we now have a situation where an area on the northside of the city is totally...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an exemption could be made for an SEAI warmer homes scheme application (details supplied), in view that the applicant is the spouse of the person in receipt of the qualifying social welfare allowance, which is a requirement in the eligibility criteria of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme given a revised itemised cost breakdown was submitted to the Department on 18 February 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and can rapidly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The programme for government commits to ‘Increase the availability of naloxone and train relevant individuals on its use’. Naloxone services including Naloxone training is part of an integrated approach to reducing drug harm under the National Drugs Strategy. The Department of Health...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of nicotine pouch sales recorded in the off-trade, by volume, and monetary value in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource challenges; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of businesses offering sunbeds according to the HSE National Environmental Health Service in each of the years 2014 to 2025, in tabular form. [16137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 316. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, including the geographical breakdown, of each of the businesses offering sunbeds who notified the HSE Environmental Health Service, based on the latest available data. [16138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 317. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who attended a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic nationally; including the number who were offered an appointment within the recommended timeframe, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025 to date, respectively, in tabular form. [16139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 318. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who received a cancer diagnosis via a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form. [16140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if State supports for those looking to quit nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes and vapes are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports for travel expenses, and other related costs, available to patients, or their travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 321. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the circumstances where air or sea travel fares are covered for patients, or a travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 0 to 24 years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those...