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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: We have not dealt with this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: There is.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: Yes; there is a crisis.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: The reason the crisis-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I fully support the call for a debate on this matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: It is important.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: In any future housing policy we must clearly stick to a certain percentage of local authority houses.

Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for Health for bringing forward this Bill. I thank the departmental officials and all who were involved in pushing forward this legislation. I join the Minister in thanking the Irish Cancer Society and all the organisations involved in promoting the need to be careful about our health. What has happened in the past 25 years is that conditions are being diagnosed much...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: The introduction of this Bill is welcome and long overdue. The Minister has already outlined the difficulties faced in this country and, along with my colleague, Senator Daly, pointed out that tobacco kills some 5,200 Irish citizens and 700,000 European citizens every year. It is amazing that these figures neither deter people from starting smoking nor encourage them to stop. The death of...

Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: At 2.15 p.m. on Thursday.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: This Adjournment matter concerns the drug Fampyra which is used by multiple sclerosis patients. It has been brought to my attention by a patient using the drug on a trial basis with positive effects that it is not covered by the GMS or drugs payment scheme. The patient's consultant, Dr. Brian Sweeney in Cork, has recommended that she continue using the drug, but it is costing her...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I fully understand the position of the HSE and the Department on this issue and accept that pricing is important in the context of drugs being accepted for inclusion in the community drug schemes. In this case the drug has already received approval in a number of other European countries and evidence to support its effectiveness is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Revised Implementation Measures under Haddington Road Agreement: INMO (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: My apologies for being late. Unfortunately, I had a prior engagement which was arranged more than two months ago and I could not get out of it. I apologise for missing Mr. Doran's presentation. Following on from his replies to earlier questions, on the management structure in the HSE, we have seen it happen in the private sector during the past two to three years where, for example, one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Revised Implementation Measures under Haddington Road Agreement: INMO (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: Will the spend in 2014 be €84 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Revised Implementation Measures under Haddington Road Agreement: INMO (17 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I had a question.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I concur with Senator Ó Murchú on the need to have the remains of Thomas Ceannt moved to a more fitting location. It is a matter that should be attended to within a short timeframe. On the cost of professional indemnity insurance for medical practitioners, the announcement in the past few days that in some cases the cost of this insurance has increased by 60% underlines the call I...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Legal Costs (18 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister. This is my second time in 18 months to raise this matter on the Adjournment. I stand over what I said previously and nothing has occurred since. This is about the appointment of a third Taxing Master. The current position is that if someone wins their High Court action their solicitor will want to get the costs taxed. If an agreement has been reached the matter...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Legal Costs (18 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for his response. I have got the figures on the stamp duty collected for 2012. In order to take up one's certificate of taxation, one must pay stamp duty. The total stamp duty paid in 2012 for 367 certificates was €805,000. As I said earlier, the number of certificates issued in 2011 reduced from 796, therefore, all we needed to do to pay for a third Taxing...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Catherine McGuinness (19 Jun 2014)

Colm Burke: As a fellow legal practitioner, I welcome Ms McGuinness. My question returns to what Senator Leyden said about the abolition of the status of illegitimacy. I started that campaign in 1980 as head of a youth organisation. We held public meetings and collected signatures, and although we envisaged that it would take us ten years to change the law, it took seven years.