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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 129. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will give consideration to providing funding to cover the cost of a drug known as adjuvant nivolumab for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the current level of the student contribution charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of support provided to further and higher education institutions to invest in capital equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6313/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited given the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 729. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to updating HSE guidelines, advising general practitioners and other medical practitioners that any programme based on fixed incremental increases in physical activity or exercise will not be recommended to those suffering from long Covid, taking into account their symptoms, organ damage, abilities and risk factors, in view of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 739. To ask the Minister for Health the progress his Department has made to date in responding to the issues raised in the Wasted Lives report published by the Ombudsman in May 2021, regarding the recommendation to move hundreds of younger persons living in inappropriate nursing home settings into a rehabilitation pathway towards independent living; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 740. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department and the HSE will engage with an organisation (details supplied) to address the issues and concerns raised in the Wasted Lives report published by Ombudsman in May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 728. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to updating HSE guidelines advising general practitioners and other medical practitioners that any programme based on fixed incremental increases in physical activity or exercise, for example, graded exercise therapy, will no longer be recommended to ME/CFS sufferers to reflect current research and recently updated...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that his Department was unable to issue the minimum 20 afforestation licences each week or since dashboards began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5900/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that ecological input is being managed by his Department in view of the number of ecology staff increasing to 27 in 2021 while during the same period his Department only achieved 55% of its target for private licences with ecological input; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5901/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 817. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences issued to Coillte and the number of licences issued to private farm owners by county in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and in January 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5902/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: 818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences issued to Coillte and the number of licences issued to private farm owners by county in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and in January 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5903/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our guests for their presentations and all the information they are providing to us. When many of the public private partnership agreements were put in place in recent years, interest rates were far higher. Given that money is cheaper now, is there any provision in those agreements to look at those costs as part of the overall agreement? We also need to look into this issue for...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Is there a clause in the contracts that allows TII to request that review rather than waiting for the people on the other side to look for the review and then come back to TII?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Is there not now a need to look at that whole issue? As interest rates are low now, it may be to our advantage to have a review. Would Mr. Masterson accept it is a fault in the system that neither TII nor anyone else has the power and only the beneficiaries do?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: Has there been any review where a company has refinanced and where there has been a benefit? Has that occurred in any case?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I refer to two projects. The route for the Ringaskiddy bypass was announced in 2014 and we are now eight years on. I know many of the delays were outside TII's control. Are there lessons to be learned on the planning processes and the entitlement to judicial review? I accept people have a constitutional right to judicial review. Does Mr. Walsh believe there can be a better way than the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: In fairness, there are some delays in courts but there is also the complexity of these cases. As it takes up quite a bit of time before all the documentation from each side is put together, that must be taken into account. I am in no way saying anyone who wants to take a judicial review should be restricted. It is a constitutional right. However, it is about the whole process. From the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Colm Burke: I return to the issue of projects that were sidelined. Take the Cork-Limerick road for instance. A decision was taken to not proceed with it. Then, when it was decided to proceed with it, it appears as though we started with a clean sheet and went through the whole process all over again. Is there a mechanism for dealing with that? If a project is parked, why must we start with a clean...