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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: When cigarettes, say, are confiscated, what route is subsequently taken? When alcohol or cigarettes are seized, how are they disposed of?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: The issue I have about goods that are seized is that some of the cigarettes would be of a low standard, and that would be a health issue.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: The other issue was the online shopping that is coming through. What is the situation as regards goods that come in through the postal service or by other means which are purchased online? How is that monitored from a Revenue point of view, or is it monitored from a Revenue point of view?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: What about the arrangement with the UK?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: Have we put in additional mechanisms in place to deal with that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: I very much thank everyone who voted for me. I also thank my competitor. He has huge experience in the medical area and I look forward to working with him. As I said at the previous meeting, I was on the health committee from 2011 to 2024. I certainly want to use that experience to help the Chairperson and all the other members of the committee. I look forward to working with all of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further steps that are in place to ensure his Department delivers sustainable housing to promote renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further steps that his Department is taking to increase the number of social houses built across the country as outlined in the Housing Commission Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27896/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government that further steps that his Department is taking to support homeownership for people under the age of 30; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: The National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023-2026 sets out the policies and actions which will reduce the risks associated with skin cancer for Ireland's population. The Plan's aims include a focus on increasing awareness of the importance of skin cancer prevention and promoting the adoption of skin cancer preventative behaviours. A number of pilot programmes run by the National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: The new community care facility for people who are homeless is collaborative project between Government and the Dublin Simon Community to improve access to healthcare services. The facility includes step-up and step-down beds for acute services, and inpatient treatment beds for drug stabilisation, detoxification and recovery. The Department of Health has provided an additional...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: On the issue of increase in numbers, that is because there are dentists coming in from abroad.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I would like clarity on the RCSI. Will those students be fee-paying students or is will they come under the education system and be the same as any other students? I always thought that RCSI was full of fee-paying students. Second, an extra 20 places is not sufficient and the figures show that. The number of dentists now offering public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State and I am sorry that we are dealing with this so late in the evening. What action is the Department of higher education taking to increase the number of dental training places in our universities? This is in view of the fact that no increase has occurred in the past 25 years while the population of the country has increased by 1.6 million people. Moreover,...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for coming to the House to deal with this issue. This is a really difficult time for children but, in particular, for parents because children place their trust in their parents. The parents in this case placed their trust in the consultants and took their advice in coming to a decision about the best way of managing the medical care required. Simon Thomas, who has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 29 April 2025, the reason a Garda must witness the form RF111A being signed at a Garda station given there is no onus by the Garda to inspect the vehicle; if Peace Commissioners or Commissioners for Oaths could also fulfil this role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26858/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocation for 2025 from his Department to address road-related noise issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (27 May 2025)

Colm Burke: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.