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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 580. To ask the Minister for Health when there will be full return of adult disability day services in the Cork north Lee area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54127/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (9 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare services, including adult disability day services and respite services, that have resumed at full service level in the south and south west HSE area to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54128/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role that his Department is playing in the development of a low-cost loan scheme to support households to undertake retrofitting programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement his Department has had with other Departments on possible supports for householders in private accommodation for retrofitting to complement the social homes retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46329/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which it is planned to improve the efficiency and regularity of the current Bus Éireann bus service in and around Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date of programmes to retrofit vehicles in order that public transport infrastructure is more accessible to persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53553/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will put in place to ensure that Cork Airport is supported during its current closure and following its reopening in November 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home tuition applications are only accessible from mid-summer each year when educational welfare officers, CAMHS and schools management are on holidays given that this greatly hinders submission of comprehensive applications in time for the beginning of the school year; if this can be brought back earlier in the year to spring; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department will take to reduce and ultimately eliminate the backlog in processing applications for home tuition which results in students missing part of the school year and tutors being unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will institute a process to replace time lost through delays in processing home tuition applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will designate home tutors as employees of her Department given that there is a long-term educational relationship between tutors and their students in a large number of cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53786/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home tuition has not yet been sanctioned for a pupil (details supplied); when it is likely to be sanctioned given that this tutorage is essential for the pupil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 356. To ask the Minister for Health if a business (details supplied) is regarded as a casino for the purposes of Covid-19 restrictions which were not permitted to open during Covid-19; the exact date that casinos were entitled to reopen under public health guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53789/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of introducing an automatic entitlement to a medical card for all persons over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the weekly gross income limit for the over 70s medical card for single persons and couples by €50, €100, €150 and €200, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53490/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: I thank the Chairman. My apologies for the delay in joining the meeting. To follow up on Deputy Durkan's remarks relating to packets of cigarettes, there is legislation stating that cigarettes may not be sold in packets of fewer than 20 but there is no law in respect of an upper limit. For instance, 30% of cigarette packets sold now contain more than 20 cigarettes. Those are the figures I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: The point I am making is that 30% of cigarettes now sold come in packets of more than 20 cigarettes. If there are 27 cigarettes in a packet, they are costing the purchaser less per cigarette compared with a packet of 20 cigarettes. By allowing there to be packets with more than 20 cigarettes, are we not encouraging people to smoke 10%, 15% or 20% more than the number they might smoke if we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: Yes. The figure I provided related to the increase in the sale of tobacco products from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. I do not have the exact figure here, but there was an increase in sales of over 150 million. It is being put down to the fact that people were not able to travel, therefore, less product was bring brought into the country by individuals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: They have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Department of Health (3 Nov 2021)

Colm Burke: The point I am making about the warning is that in Finland, you cannot bring cigarettes into the country unless the warning is both in Finnish and Swedish. If you want to bring in a product that contains a warning that is only in English or Spanish, for example, you will not be allowed to bring it in. They have limited the number of cigarettes that can be brought in to 200 per person. ...