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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: And in obstetrics and gynaecology?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: We need to set clear targets on this because we have been making very little progress over the last ten years. I am concerned that we now face major challenges here particularly because it is an area in which there is major litigation. Our chances of reducing the problem are poor unless we have the consultants in place.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I would also like to be associated with the expression of sympathies to the families of the three people who died in the past few days. They suffered a tragic loss. It is important to commend all the work done in the past 72 hours, at national level down to local community level, where people put their shoulder to the wheel to ensure those people who had to travel could travel safely. The...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Government amendment No. 14 is also in the names of Senators Daly and Clifford-Lee.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I am sorry, but this is amendment No. 14.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Recommittal is necessary in resect of Government amendment No. 15 as it creates a cost on the public revenue. Amendments Nos. 15, 19, 21 to 39, inclusive, and 46 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Amendment No. 17 is out of order.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Amendments Nos. 18, 20, 44 and 45 are related and may be discussed together.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Amendment Nos. 40 and 41 are related and will be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Senators Conway-Walsh, Kelleher, Boyhan and Warfield wish to speak.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I will not be limiting the Senator's time in any way.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: It has already been discussed with amendment No. 2.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I join colleagues in thanking everyone involved, including Senators Mark Daly and Lorraine Clifford-Lee, the members of the deaf community and those who have lobbied over the years. I thank the Members who have worked very hard on this important Bill as well as the Minister of State and his departmental officials for getting involved to make it possible to bring forward what is...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (12 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I raise the issue of the delay in the processing of claims before the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal which was set up to deal with claims by people who have suffered injury as a result of an assault or a crime committed against them. It came to my attention as a result of a number of colleagues in the legal profession in Cork writing to...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (12 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I do not think the reply is good enough. I have been talking to legal colleagues who are frustrated at this. In the case to which I refer, the perpetrator was sentenced in 2012 and is now in comfortable accommodation while the victim is still waiting, not for compensation but to be put back into the position they were in prior to suffering the assault. This person suffered brain injury and...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I am concerned that, in light of comments made in the House this morning, we seem to be going back to the blank cheque attitude regarding budgets. It is important to remind people of where we have come from. Between October 2008 and December 2010 some €12.5 billion was taken out of the budget because the money was not there and an extra €3.8 billion was imposed on taxpayers in...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. The issue of consent is a complex one and it is important we get it right. There has been a great deal of reform in the mental health services in the past 20 years and it is important that those reforms continue. On the broader issue of the health services in general, I am concerned that there is a view being given out, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: I would like to thank Ms O'Riordan very much for the presentation and the work she and her colleagues are doing in this area. Last week we discussed this whole area of forward planning. We still do not seem to have gotten the message out there about the need for forward planning. I am coming from a legal background. What we find helpful are enduring powers of attorney, and having people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Colm Burke: Could we go back to the issue, which arises, where a problem is identified in a service? An agency might identify the problem but there is no co-operation before the service is cut, and in terms of an alternative replacement for it being identified. That is what I am concerned about, and the issue is beginning to grow. There are clearly defined lines in terms of the role of agencies, with...