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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: Minister, can we try to stick to the designated time period?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: I referred to the 80% target for energy from renewable sources by 2030. In real terms, there has been a very slow roll-out of offshore wind. How fast can we now develop the offshore wind energy area? Its delivery needs to be expedited as well to reach the target of 80%. Are we satisfied that we have a sufficient number of people interested in developing projects? Second, have we set...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: The Minister mentioned the Port of Cork. As somebody who previously served on its board I know the board and staff in the Port of Cork are very go-ahead.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what action his Department is taking to ensure Ireland achieves its goal of 8 GW of solar connections by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10954/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister outline what action the Department is taking to ensure Ireland achieves its goal of 8 GW of solar connections by 2030? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. He must accept that at present we have 1 GW of solar power and the target is to have 8 GW by 2030. The Minister said that building of 2 GW will commence over the next 12 months but 8 GW is a substantial target to try to reach in what is really a five-and-a-half-year time period. Is the Minister satisfied, from the submissions he has received and from the planning...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: I was in Farmleigh ten years ago when the then Minister, James Reilly, started dealing with the issue of rare diseases. I am disappointed that we have made very little progress in real terms. While some progress has been made, it is not enough. I refer to the report by the Joint Committee on Health in 2018, which set out approximately 15 or 16 recommendations about access to drugs where...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I very much appreciate that work is being done in this area but I am just wondering about the timeframe for roll-out. In a discussion on an earlier question, I mentioned the growth of the older population and the need to fast-track new ways of managing both homecare and long-term care in nursing homes. I am not sure whether there has been any co-ordination between the HSE and public and...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: With regard to this subject, we need to fast-track. The private sector can deliver computerisation far faster. We seem to have a great difficulty in the HSE. Even in maternity care, a totally different area, while four or five maternity hospitals were computerised four or five years ago, the other 14 still have not been. I do not understand why, if we have a system in place in some units,...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister outline whether the Department has mapped out a pathway for the role technology can play in keeping patients healthy and in the planned statutory homecare scheme and the status of the roll-out of the planned actions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. The challenge that we now have is where the Minister of State has talked about the programme being put in place for over-75s. That is going to be a growing challenge because we have more people living longer. The Minister of State is right in that life expectancy in Ireland is one of the best across Europe. That is now going to present its own challenges....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What action is the Department taking in evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways? I ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There is still a problem when an older person ends up in an accident and emergency department for different reasons. All of us, including the Minister of State, have been contacted by people who have an elderly family member who has spent 48 hours or more in an accident and emergency and still not been assigned a bed in a ward. It is very distressing for the elderly person involved but also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. I think the answer confirms what I was saying. For instance, the Minister of State talked about 25% being provided by the private sector. My understanding is that in other areas, it is far higher than 25%. The concern I have is the fact that it is confirmed that only 25% is provided by the private sector. I said to the Minister of State that three years...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: This matter has been raised with me by families with elderly parents or relatives trying to get home care and by commercial providers of home care. They find that the number of hours being allocated and the way those are allocated means there is quite a long delay. Where someone has been looking for home care and the HSE has exhausted its efforts to find someone who has worked with the HSE...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are we doing enough work in respect of the roles that are becoming redundant in real terms? Long ago, when a person went to college and got a degree, it would last them a lifetime. Now, however, in the context of business and what is happening in the world, things are changing very fast. Are we doing enough to examine the roles that are becoming redundant? Do we have adequate training in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made to date to increase radiation therapy course places in Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9085/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Will the Minister outline what progress has been made to increase the number of radiation therapy course places at Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, and will he make a statement on the matter?