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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a review of the way that Huntington’s disease is included in national strategies in view of the disease being a condition with multiple dimensions which does not sit neatly within one strategy whereby building links across strategic frameworks could help to improve the way services are delivered; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 517. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the development of a new work stream within the current National Clinical Programme for Neurology to establish the details of a model of care for Huntington’s disease affected families in Ireland that would fit within the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy and Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 539. To ask the Minister for Health the way capacity challenges at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics can be addressed to avoid significant delays in the evaluation process of oncology medicines in Ireland through the reimbursement pathway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12596/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 540. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to establishing an oncology-specific managed access fund enabling access to new oncology medicines while clinical uncertainties are being addressed through evidence development and the criteria for routine reimbursement is satisfied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12597/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 541. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to multi-year-multi-indication agreements with regard to oncology medicines in Ireland during the reimbursement pathway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the next agreement with an organisation (details supplied) to include a forward-looking funding framework over a rolling four-year period for new medicines to improve the reimbursement system in helping to deliver faster access for patients and greater budget predictability for the Government; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the development of a clear budget structure for medicines that includes minimum annual funds necessary to support access to new medicines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12600/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for the completion of the relevant draft regulations with regard to section 12 and 13 of the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018 including the revision of same by the Office of the Attorney General; the estimated timeframe for the submission of and assessment by the European Commission of the draft regulations to; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to putting in place a mechanism to allow for greater transparency along the entirety of the Irish food chain through the establishment of a regulator with sufficient powers such as a national food ombudsman (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12573/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to date in respect of the establishment of the new office of the national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated in Budget 2021 and additional funding which had been allocated to date for the establishment of the new office of the national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if calves born after the cut-off date for the beef dairy calf programme in 2022 will be eligible for inclusion in the 2023 dairy beef calf scheme in view of a retro-eligibility measure being undertaken by his Department to facilitate those with calves born after 1 July 2021 to be included in the 2022 dairy beef calf scheme; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an annual review will be carried out by his Department to determine the funding allocation for the beef dairy calf programme over the duration of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: 772. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received by his Department for the dairy beef calf scheme in 2021 by county in tabular form; the number of payments that have been issued to farmers to date; if additional funding was required to meet demand for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12893/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for being here. There has been a lot of focus on the drawdown of funding. I am interested in the structure to protect the organisation with regard to securities, etc. What checks and balances are in place to make sure there is adequate security? We had a problem with the banks in the past. Representatives from the National Asset Management Agency were before the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Is the person drawing down the funding already the owner of the property or is some of the funding going towards the purchase of the property?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Alger would accept that one of the problems that occurred when the crash came in 2008 was the exposure of the banks that had inadequate security. Have any particular problems been highlighted in that regard? Have alarm bells been set off because of issues that occurred previously?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: When money is drawn down, what is the structure for repayment? What time period is normally granted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: I will ask about projections of dates of sales, etc. I know construction was closed for part of the pandemic. Are our guests satisfied that the targets and timelines set are being reached or are the timeframes now longer for the delivery of the end product?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: The HBFI lends money to developers who must show they have had difficulty in getting the required borrowing from the financial institutions. What is the difficulty about the financial institutions providing lending at this stage? Never before has there been so much money on deposit in the main banks in this country. Why is there a reluctance in the financial sector to provide funding?