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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: There is additional cost.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: One of the problems is that there is that variation in cost.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: This argument about HSE public nursing homes having to provide a higher level of care because there are more challenges does not always wash. In the case of a patient who was admitted with minor issues but encounters greater challenges as they get older, there is no increase in the provision to the private nursing home even though the level of care that is required has increased...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: How many additional nursing home beds will come into place? Remember now-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Over the next ten years, there will be a population increase among people over 65 or 66 years of age from approximately 860,000 at present to over 1 million. I am not saying that nursing homes are the answer for everyone. Obviously, home care is the ideal scenario but a certain element will require full-time nursing home care. Are we doing enough forward planning in this whole area? We...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Does the Minister of State accept that there is a challenge with gap between the private sector-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: There is a difference of €700-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to progress the Mallow relief road project; the current status of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63270/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: What action is the Department taking to progress the Mallow relief road project? What is the current status of the project, and will the Minister of State make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. As he knows, Mallow is quite close to Cork city. There is a huge volume of traffic now passing through Mallow because it is coming from either the Killarney side, the Fermoy-Mitchelstown side or the Limerick side. It is all coming into Mallow town. We need to prioritise this project because it is really having an adverse effect on the town as regards the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: It also ties in with the Cork-Limerick road and the importance of that development. We are 20 years on and we need to make sure that project moves on in the same way as this bypass road for Mallow. With regard to the volume of traffic travelling on that road, some mornings at 5.30, as I am driving to the station to take the train from Mallow to Dublin, there is a volume of traffic coming...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update regarding the expression of interest by a school (details supplied) in the Safe Routes to School Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63081/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the provision of safety information to the general public regarding electric vehicles with electronic door handles which have a hidden emergency mechanical release mechanism, in view that if the electronic door handle fails during an accident the occupant may not know how to get out of the car; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the provision of safety information to the general public in relation to electric vehicles, in view that electric vehicles may have different operational features to non-EV vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63274/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to extending a bus service to include an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63080/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update regarding the need for specialised training of fire fighters for electric vehicle fires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1068. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if consideration will be given to providing an urgent appointment to a person (details supplied) who urgently requires hip surgery, has received a referral and an updated urgent status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1122. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to reviewing the case of a person (details supplied) who has been informed they have to make a repayment of a specialty allowance in the HSE, which was due to an administrative error; if the request for repayment of the allowance to date will be withdrawn due to the fact that this error was not on the part of the worker in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: In Australia, there are high numbers of people affected by flu. Likewise, the UK is expecting the same thing to happen. Here in Ireland, the take-up of the vaccine is very low. For instance, take-up of the vaccine stands at 17.5% of healthcare workers, 53.7% of fair deal residents, 42.6% of adults 60 and above, and 11% of those aged between two and 17. As we face into the winter months,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Where I am coming from is that in the Cork area, the land bank IDA Ireland has in Ringaskiddy is now totally built on and there is very little space available for new companies to come in. Likewise, many of the private business parks have been developed, such as Blarney Business Park, which has seen huge growth in the past five to eight years and is running out of space. My question is...