Results 201-220 of 11,938 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department in examining a mechanism to engage with stakeholders on the design of national agriculture schemes, in particular the next Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44135/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Information and Communications Technology (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department are taking to improve and accelerate IT capabilities in his Department in order to enhance systems and to avoid payment delays, as experienced by ACRES applicants in the current CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44136/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department for Health in relation to examining the fair deal scheme to ensure it does not impede succession planning and recognises the distinctive position of agricultural land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department in relation to a review of the eligibility criteria for the succession planning advice grant to ensure better up take of the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on his Department’s progress to date in relation to the delivery of a scheme that recognises the category of farmers known as the “Forgotten Farmers”; when it is envisaged that this scheme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date by his Department in relation to the introduction of a national framework for carbon farming to guide the development of a carbon farming scheme to strengthen farm incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action being undertaken by his Department to support women in agriculture, in particular in relation to female farm succession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the implementation of the National Women in Agriculture Action Plan, to support gender equality in the agriculture sector, in particular in relation to female farm succession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2498. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if an annual €3 million funding uplift can be provided to an organisation (details supplied) starting in 2026 on the grant register to address their current funding deficit position and stop the escalating financial losses on funded services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43893/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2499. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider putting in place an annual inflationary increase on section 56 funding as was the practice prior to the 2008 financial crash which would assist certain organisations that support children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43896/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2501. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm that consideration would be given to reforming the core funding model for childcare centres, to provide additional funding for the scheme, to remove the cap on funding for childcare providers which has been reduced from €500,000 to €450,000, which may discourage childcare providers from continuing in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2536. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to reintroduce a vocational training programme for graduate dentists to support the transition into the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44019/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2537. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided in 2025 for the provision of an integrated homeless health hub in Cork city day centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2721. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can receive funding from the HSE for fertility treatment for a second child utilising the frozen embryos from the initial round of HSE-funded fertility treatment for their first child, rather than undergoing a new round of IVF, given that utilising the frozen embryos would be more cost effective (details supplied); and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1763 of 19 March 2025, the detailed breakdown of what precisely the amount of €145.5 million is spent on, in particular the costs related to fixed unit costs and other costs incurred as per the HSE Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40972/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2744. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the current levels of funding allocated to oral health promotion initiatives; if she will consider increasing support for organisations (details supplied) in recognition of their vital role in delivering preventive oral health programmes nationwide, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2745. To ask the Minister for Health the evaluation that has been undertaken regarding the impact of existing oral health promotion programmes and the potential to enhance oral health in communities delivered by community-based organisations (details supplied); if these findings will inform future funding decisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41812/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2746. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider ringfencing additional funding in budget 2026 to support community-based oral health promotion programmes that target at-risk and underserved populations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41813/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The Department provides in the region of €28m in funding to community drug and alcohol projects under the ambit of drug and alcohol task forces on a recurring basis.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: In 2022 and 2023 the Department of Health provided €1.35m in recurring funding for a HSE-led initiative to reduce the health-related harms associated with the use of cocaine and ‘crack’ cocaine. The funding supported models of best practice in cocaine treatment, including the development of training programmes for addiction service staff nationally. It also established...