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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the management of co-operation projects as part of the new CAP’s national agri-environmental climate measure has been tendered out; and if so, the body it has been tendered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19913/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that co-operation teams will be paid as part of the new CAP’s national agri-environmental climate measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19914/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of co-operation teams; the total number of individuals who require to be employed in the management of co-operation projects as part of the new CAP national agri-environmental climate measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19915/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the level of fees which will be incurred by farmers for co-operation teams services as part of the new CAP’s national agri-environmental climate measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19916/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to amending the current BEAM criteria by allowing farmers to repay BEAM money over a greater timeframe to improve their cashflow situation in the short-term, in view of the recent unprecedented inflation costs of fertiliser, fuel and feed in the agricultural sector; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Telecommunications Infrastructure (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1962. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress that has been made between her Department and Cork County Council on the roll-out of WIFI4EU in County Cork; if submissions have been received from the council; the number of access points that have been applied for in the county; the reason that Cork County Council has not availed of the programme to date; and if she...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Telecommunications Infrastructure (26 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: 1963. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the closing date that the European Union has set out for the receipt of applications from local authorities for the roll-out of WIFI4EU projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20732/22]
- Topical Issue Debate: Medical Register (7 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: I fully accept what the Minister of State said. It has to be carefully managed. It is important the people we allow to practise have the skills. In respect of An Bord Altranais and the Medical Council, is there any one person assigned to deal with this issue? The medical doctor I have been working with is from Lithuania and is working in Dublin. Is there someone he can speak to in the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Medical Register (7 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: This issue concerns doctors and nurses from Ukraine who have arrived here. I understand that more than 165 doctors are here now who are qualified and who have been practising in Ukraine for several years. I do not have the number for nurses, but I understand many are here also. A register of these medical professionals is being compiled by a doctor working voluntarily. Originally from...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health yesterday, the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, confirmed that it is not intended to appoint a new chair to the medical consultants contract negotiations. The chair who was there, Marguerite Bolger, was appointed to the High Court last September. Seven months later, we still have no chair. There are 838 consulting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for the work they are doing for all the people working in their organisation. I refer to the details on queries handled. One of the issues I noticed is that in 2019, some 290 people came into the public office. In 2020 it was 51 and in 2021 it was down to 11. Is there any particular explanation for that sudden-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: If it is down to a figure of 11 meetings in the public office in 2021, then surely investigations were delayed as a result.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: That is a huge drop from 290 in 2019 down to 11 in 2021. Was Covid used as the excuse for not meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I am confused. Is Mr. Hume saying that 290 people met in the public office in 2019? Does that mean those people were still communicated with in 2021, even though they might not have been met in the public office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: The figures are getting confusing and the way they are presented sends up alarm bells. Is that a true and accurate presentation of affairs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I refer to complaints that GSOC is investigating. Is there any litigation pending where applications have been made to restrict GSOC from carrying out an investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: An investigation can be started but is there any litigation pending where someone has made an effort to restrict GSOC from carrying out an investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: It could be indicated to a person that an investigation was going to be started. Has there been a scenario where someone has gone to the courts looking for GSOC to be restrained from carrying out a further investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: But are there current applications pending?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: Can the witnesses give me the number of those currently pending?