Results 181-200 of 12,209 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1630. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department has taken following the final report on the inclusion health framework (details supplied) which was submitted earlier in spring 2025; the further actions she and her Department plan to take on this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the drug payments scheme who are in receipt of insulin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2016. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons 917 applicants were not approved for reimbursement support for CGM sensors between 1 December 2023 and 31 December 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2085. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the provision of braces to a child (details supplied), as the family were informed it would be 5.5 years before they would receive this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2086. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether a child (details supplied) could apply for funding under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in order to get braces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60159/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2087. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the actions her Department is taking in order to reduce dental waiting times for children on public patient lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2088. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be funding opportunities for dental schools in Cork and Dublin to undertake primary research into the area of oral heath for schoolchildren; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2089. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to putting an accredited Autologous stem cell transplant centre in place in Cork University Hospital; as persons with cancers such as multiple myeoloma in Cork are required to travel to Galway for this treatment at a very difficult time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60187/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I will be very brief. I do not want to go back over what has been raised. I apologise for being late. Unfortunately, I had an event in Cork today I had to come back up from. On the EU prospectus regulation, as a result of this issue with Israel coming up, has there been any discussion at European level? This same issue could arise with another country in 12 months' or two years' time....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The whole issue is about not having restrictions. What occurred in the country in question was appalling. It is genocide and there is no question about that. That state is able to borrow money to continue on. It will argue it was not used for the war itself but it is being used in the occupied territories, etc. Is there not now an obligation from a European point of view? The whole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: What I am asking is whether there has been a discussion on the need-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: -----in the sense that when the EU process was established, it was about bringing peace and restoring peace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: But can central banks not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Yes, but can central banks not look at this from their own point of view, because the process has to come through one of their units in whichever country it is? Is there then not a role for the central banks to play their part and maybe influence people from a political point of view as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Would it be worth the Irish Central Bank raising it at EU level to have this whole issue looked at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Is there not a need for feedback because of what occurred here? We were signing off on the approval so the moneys could be borrowed and the loans made available. I know quite clearly Israel is saying the money is not being used for the war effort but at the same time it is being used to sustain the economy so the war effort can continue. What I am asking the Governor, therefore, is whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Specifically, has the bank contributed on this particular issue of the obligation on central banks at a European level to sign off on a prospectus when they have very serious concerns even though, as I said, the money is not being-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The bank is part of the feeding-in of information to the decision-makers, however. Is it not time to start that feeding-in of information, with a stricter set of rules put in place to address states carrying out these acts? As the Governor pointed out, we were able to do it with Russia but we were not with Israel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The Governor will accept there is very little difference between what Russia did and what Israel did. In fact, there is no difference. What is worse in the whole Gaza effort is that there is no national army, there is a terrorist organisation, which is fighting against a really well-equipped army, but no effort being made to protect the innocent civilians in that process. Therefore, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: It has been a huge achievement over the last 45 to 50 years, but it is then about trying to convey that to other parts of the world. Part of that process would be making sure the countries that are carrying out these atrocities do not use the EU or its member states to avail of funding and avail of people who are prepared to invest.