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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Does it come in under public expenditure or would the Department of Defence have the details on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Is it not something that the Department of Finance would also carefully monitor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Would that information be available from the Department of public expenditure as regards what expenditure of the defence budget is going outside the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Then there is whole issue of maintaining neutrality but at the same time making sure we have capabilities, looking at what Finland has done. What do we need to do in that whole area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: That whole issue is being examined at the moment, am I correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: No, just the whole issue of looking at where we are sourcing our equipment and seeing if it is available through Irish companies or companies that have connections to Ireland. Is that being considered or is it just a case of putting it out to tender?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I will move on to our representatives from Europe and deal with the issue of protection of the European borders. We have had support from the United States. That seems to be changing now. Do we have any idea as to the involvement of the United States now from a European context? How reliant are we? Is this the reason we now need to make sure member states are adequately equipped if there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: We have a strong reliance on the United States, whether it is for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming here this morning. I thank them for their work over the past years. I go back to the 2018 report. I think I am the only member of the health committee who is still here. I think Ms McGrath was there in 2018 when that report was drafted. Clear proposals were set out in that report about trying to expedite the process. There has been very little change in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: If you take Germany, for example, it brings a drug onto the market, and while I know we are talking about larger volumes of patients, it negotiates the price over the following 12 months and the drug is available to patients at a very early stage. I know it can afford to do that because it has larger numbers. We might have a drug that is only suitable for 50 patients here while it might be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: On assessments, there is the whole issue of, for argument's sake, a medication that is only suitable for 50 people a year. Can we join with other countries in sharing and processing the information so that rather than Ireland looking at ten cases with 50 patients in each case, we would share information with other countries? Ireland would take two of those and another country would take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Going back to the 2018 report, I was very involved in the drafting of that report. There was a draft report done first. I was involved in redrafting it and making sure we set out a clear programme of action. However, nothing has happened on that. I am concerned that we are here talking seven years later. Will the same conversation be held in seven years' time? I am concerned about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I am not saying they are paying for everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: It is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Overall, does Professor Barry accept that we need to improve the system we have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that, but it is creating a division and it is causing a problem.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 279. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures that will be taken to progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child through the national childcare scheme; if options will be explored to cap costs for larger families, as per the Programme for Government; the timeline for this reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement his Department has had with relevant stakeholders in relation to generational renewal policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54722/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The commission on generational renewal in farming has published its report. I ask the Minister what engagement the Department has had with relevant stakeholders on generational renewal policies and whether he will make a statement on the matter.