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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide data regarding the number of deaths recorded as a codeine-related overdose from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21614/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Covid bonus payment for a group (details supplied). [21693/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: I thank Mr. Gleeson for the presentation. I will focus on expenditure on the bovine TB eradication programme. My understanding is that between 2021 and 2030, it is expected the programme will cost around €1 billion in real terms, not totally from the Department but between the contribution from farmers and the Department. This is a scheme that is in place for more than 60 years at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: One of the problems is that farming units have got bigger. Where previously farmers might have had 45 or 50 cows, they could now have between 200 and 500 animals. Given that we are talking about locking up an entire herd, there are huge additional costs for the people affected. Therefore, we need to see how we can progress it further because it is having a detrimental effect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: We seemed to have had a lower rate in the late 1980s and early 1990s but it has come back up again. Is there a particular reason for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: There have been changes in that area as well. When this was raised with me I looked into it and I discovered that there is an issue in relation to genomic testing. If one does the analysis on breeding bulls, for instance, one can actually decide to take certain bulls out because the calves from those bulls can have a higher likelihood of getting TB if it enters the herd. What progress can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Does Dr. Fanning think we can fast-track that and do a lot more work on it in order to improve the situation? We have been talking about TB for 60 years at this stage. If one takes brucellosis, for example, we seem to have been able to deal with it far more effectively. It was a huge challenge for the Department and the veterinary profession but it was dealt with effectively. We do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: In terms of planning, we had fires in the Killarney lakes area. As a result, deer travelled east and then there was a huge increase in TB in that stretch from Killarney to Macroom. What action did the Department take once that issue was identified? What did the Department do to try to control that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: There is clear evidence in this stretch from Killarney, through Millstreet, to Macroom. There has been a huge increase as a result of more deer coming into that area. The view is that the deer moved because of the damage done by fires around the Killarney lakes area. What action did the Department take to deal with that issue? We now have a whole lot of farms locked up as a result of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: I want to go back to the TB issue and the progress that can be made over the next decade. Almost €1 billion will be spent between 2021 and 2030. What can we do to make better progress? Is there a clear plan set out by the Department to improve testing and address the issue of genomics and other relevant issues? On the basis of the scientific evidence that is now there, what is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Let us say the Department is back here in four years. Does Dr. Fanning believe we will have made progress on this issue? Will we have reduced the number of farms that have to be locked up on a year-to-year basis? Does Dr. Fanning honestly believe that we will have made progress on that in a four- or five-year period?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: I want to move on to forestry and the difficulties we have had in the sector. In 2021, for example, less than half of the target area was planted. What changes have we made in this area? We have significant targets to reach. What can we do to deal with the issues? There were large numbers of objections, right across the board, to applications for planting, felling licences, road-opening...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: In relation to the targets set for planting, does Mr. Gleeson believe that, over the next five years, we can achieve those targets in view of the delays that have occurred over the last five years? We have a lot of catching up to do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: One of the things that has arisen and that has landed in my office is the situation where someone has received a felling licence but they cannot get a road opening licence, and even though they have a right of way to the land, they are being refused the road opening licence. They invested in this 20 to 25 years ago - it was a pension fund - but they now find they are landlocked. There has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: They are saying the environmental issues have changed. They have been told that where the road would go in is too close to a stream, but that was not identified 25 years ago when they got the planting licence. What I am saying to Mr. Gleeson is that all of these need to be flagged up if people are investing money. They are now in a situation where they are landlocked as a result, and they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: To go back to the planting issue, in 2021, we only achieved half of the target. To take 2023 and 2024, will the targets set for those years be achieved right across the board, from the felling of timber to planting and the opening up of new investment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will the targets be reached?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Is that this year or next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will we achieve it in 2024 or 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: In fairness, the local authorities did not build the houses themselves; they got contractors in to build them. However, the whole process of getting local authorities to get work done is just a minefield. I will give the committee an example. In my constituency there was a private housing estate finished and ready to occupy recently, and it took eight weeks to get a county council engineer...