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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Colm Burke: That worries me slightly because I have asked for a similar situation to be set up regarding elderly care where all the stakeholders would be brought together, from GPs, to geriatricians and private providers of elderly care and it has not happened. I have asked the Department on numerous occasions that it would happen. I am concerned that there will be co-ordination on this by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Colm Burke: In view of what has been said here today, I propose that the committee formally write to the Department of Health to ask it to convene a meeting of all parties involved in this matter. It is important that everyone sits around a table at a very early stage. The Department may claim it is waiting for the legislation to be published. However, if it called a meeting today, it would be two...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I raise an issue following on from the passing by this House of all Stages of the Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016. The Bill will now go to the Dáil for debate. As a result of the Seanad debate, I have been contacted by a number of people who raised circumstances in which a body is found in Ireland but the remains are not identified. It appears that there is no centralised...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Residential Care (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I do not agree with what has occurred in the past few minutes. In my Commencement matter I call on the Minister for Health to establish a forum on long-term residential care. I recall that I made such a proposal about two years ago owing to increasing pressure on the State to provide long-term residential and respite care. One of the proposals made called for the setting up of a biannual...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Residential Care (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: The reason I am raising this issue is that Nursing Homes Ireland and some of the other organisations constantly contact me about situations where they go to the Department of Health and the standard response is that it must go and talk to the HSE. Likewise, when they go to the HSE, the response is that it must go and talk to the Department. Their view is that even if such a forum was to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for their work. In the past three years, since January 2015, we have taken on more than 11,000 additional staff in the HSE. I understand that the numbers have gone from 99,000 to more than 110,000. However, that increase in staffing levels does not seem to have delivered any additional capacity. What are the witnesses' views? Was there a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I have to go the Seanad because there is a health matter I have to speak on. I will be absent from the meeting for about 20 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: My apologies for not being here when they gave the replies. Unfortunately, I was in the Seanad dealing with a health issue. On the 11,000 additional staff in the HSE, if there are to be improved levels of employment where we are already talking about over 450 consultants who are not in place and nurses not being in place, within the HSE we still do not appear to be prioritising the...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: Yesterday, despite all the votes taking place in the House, and I was here for most of them, I was still able to attend a conference in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland where Professor Ian Frazer, who developed the human papilloma virus, HPV vaccine, gave a lecture. It is sad that there were protests outside the college and outside the Dáil by people who were alleging that the...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Order for Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I thank him for bringing forward this important legislation. The 2016 census recorded 195,000 carers in this country, providing more than 6.6 million hours of care. That highlights the extent to which care is being provided within the community. In a lot of cases they are not getting all of the necessary supports. One thing about carers is...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: Now.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for bringing forward this legislation. It is important to give recognition that it is a step-by-step approach. One thing about the turnaround in economic circumstances is it is important to use wisely that increase in moneys coming into the Revenue Commissioners but that in particular, it is used for people who need that additional support. They provide a huge...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I welcome a debate on this matter as it is important that there is open disclosure of any adverse events occurring in medical practice, whether in a hospital, in a voluntary hospital or any medical facility. It is important to recognise we have come a long way. The problem is that our judicial system is an adversarial system and that is not helpful or conducive to all information being...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: Not agreed.

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: Not agreed.

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: I am sorry, Acting Chairman. That is not agreed.

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: It is not agreed. That is my instruction.

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: My understanding is I said, "Not agreed".

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Colm Burke: My understanding is that we are not agreeing to the Bill going to the next Stage. The Minister has announced that he is doing a new Bill and he is bringing it to the Cabinet tomorrow.