Results 241-260 of 11,938 for speaker:Colm Burke

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: What I am asking is whether the problem was identified when the genuine call came in for the €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I am asking how it was identified. Was it identified once the genuine call came in and it was suddenly realised that the €5 million was already paid out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: So in other words, if that genuine call was not made, it might not have been identified for a further week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: One of the issues the witnesses raised earlier was that a number of people were involved in this process. Are there too many people dealing with a particular process and confusion can arise as a result?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Moving away from that, I will discuss the payments from the State Claims Agency. If we settled every claim in the morning that was currently pending, what kind of money would we be talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Of that €5.3 billion, how much do medical negligence claims make up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Talking about medical negligence claims and ignoring all the other claims against the State, where do we stand with regard to the level of claims compared with other European countries? Are we currently ahead of the United States?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Does that €460 million include costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: All aspects of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The level of claims is at €4.3 billion. Is there now a need to look at whether we can do this in a better way? I know we did a review before. The review was to bring in savings but that has not happened. Other countries have a different structure for how they manage claims. Is there not a need now to look again at and revisit how we go forward over the next ten to 15 years? There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Is that not one of the problems, especially with regard to HSE facilities? Due to the whole medical-admin separation, there seems to be a far slower process for dealing with concerns that are genuinely raised by patients or patients' families, with delays in them getting responses, leading to frustration and a legal consultation? Have we actually made any progress on that in the last five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I think Mr. Breen accepts that if that was done at a faster pace, we might have a better outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Is it not a problem that we have a challenge whereby there is a reluctance among people to stay in the particular areas of medicine they want to focus on because of the level of claims and the risks involved?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. One of the issues I raised concerned Barnardos and the work it is doing. These are two separate programmes, but this is about co-ordination and working together. It is extremely important that this happens. The work the Department is doing means it has now acquired a great deal of expertise. It is the same with Barnardos and what it is doing. It also has a large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the €5 million pilot programme of counselling and well-being and mental health supports for the academic years 2024-25; to provide a breakdown of the progress in Cork in particular; if there are plans to expand the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40008/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I ask the Minister for to provide an

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister and welcome the success of this scheme. I am concerned, however, about whether it will continue. On Monday last, I met with Barnardos in Knocknaheeny in Cork where a programme is based. As the Minister will know, Barnardos total budget for the year is approximately €15 million. It gets €12 million through Tusla and there is a shortfall of approximately...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, for all the work done on flood relief programmes. The problem I have with them is the time it takes from start to finish. One, the Glanmire flood relief project, is being done in my constituency at the moment. It is nearing completion and was very well managed by the OPW. I am concerned about the one in Blackpool, which started in 2013 and, 12...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The Minister spoke of funding for Irish Water. More than 500 treatment plants throughout the country were built between 2002 and 2008. Many of the developers who built them have gone into liquidation or receivership. In one case in Whitechurch in Cork, raw sewage is flying out of the treatment plant into the stream. I have taken samples from it. I have been writing to Cork County...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to confirm the level of capital spending on Cork and Dublin in the years 2022 to 2024; the major capital spending plans for Cork going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40138/25]