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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: Dr. O'Grady has given the impression that this is not the position. My understanding is under the Bill the doctor must prescribe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: Where a doctor prescribes in normal practice, is it not up to the doctor to make sure the advice he or she has given is followed through? That is what we are providing for in this legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: The doctor was not doing the supervising. That is the difference.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: There was a debate a few weeks ago on the Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016. It was agreed that it would go on to the next Stage. It was also indicated by the Minister that the Bill would not be dealt with for at least 12 months. Since that debate, I have received a number of calls from people whose family members are missing, some of them for a number of years. Often, all indications...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for bringing this legislation forward. I pay tribute to her for her five years of work in the health committee under the previous Administration. I am aware of her commitment to this issue and I appreciate the work she has done. I also pay tribute to Senator Ó Ríordáin who did a huge amount of work on this when he was a Minister of State. I thank him...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank Senator Kelleher for bringing forward this Bill. It is quite comprehensive and a lot of work has gone into it. I pay tribute to the Senator and the people who helped her because it is a very carefully drafted document, not something that was drafted in a very short period of time. A lot of thought has gone into it. It is very...

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: Second Stage (4 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "That" and substitute: "the Bill be read a second time this day six months, following the proposed publication of findings by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform arising from its review of barriers to extended participation in the public service workforce, up to and including the current age of entitlement to the contributory...

Seanad: Critical Health Professionals Bill 2017: Second Stage (4 Apr 2017)

Colm Burke: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I welcome yesterday's announcement that a new project is going ahead at a cost of €90 million to provide accommodation for over 3,000 office staff in Cork. It is the second development in a very small area. When this project has been completed, over 5,000 people will be working in the city. This shows the confidence the developers have in growth levels in Cork. It is possible that...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for being here and thank both him and the Minister of State at his Department, Deputy Finian McGrath, for bringing forward this legislation. It is an extremely important development and more than 9,800 children will benefit directly. I agree with Senator Boyhan that the issue of raising the age limit for the domiciliary care allowance from 16 to 18 must be examined. If...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Motion for Earlier Signature (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I move:That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Health (Amendment) Bill 2017 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I, too, thank Ms Cody for her presentation. I want to tease out an issue. If we bring forward a plan for the regulation of counsellors and a registered counsellor gives an opinion which he or she firmly believes is the best advice he or she can give to a woman in a crisis pregnancy, will it be difficult legally in any way to make sure receive proper advice? I am concerned that, even with...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleagues on some aspects of their criticism of the current difficulties with the Garda. There has been debate about the lack of trust but one issue that has not been highlighted is that there will now be a difficulty accepting the evidence of gardaí in courts. It is important to resolve the Garda's current difficulties at a very early stage, in particular, where...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister, and I very much welcome the Bill. I was worried when I listened to Senator Horkan of Fianna Fáil because he was so negative I thought the Bill was being introduced to abolish the charges. I reassure him that the purpose of the Bill is to introduce medical cards for people who are in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance. A significant number of people will...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: On Thursday.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: On a good news point, it is interesting that the World Economic Forum now puts Ireland in the top seven countries for strongest democracies. We are joint sixth with Canada after Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark. It is a credit to the political system in Ireland that we are now regarded as the joint seventh strongest democracy. Talking about democracy, my colleague, Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I am really concerned about this matter. I believe that if we are talking about an eight-point plan, we should have a debate in the House as regards how we restructure the HSE. Someone should say to stop this juggernaut at this stage before we end up with 19,000 people. We had 15,000 people in administration and management in December 2014. We now have 16,901. At the rate we are going,...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: We need a serious debate on this matter.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Legal Costs (21 Mar 2017)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy David Stanton, for coming to the House to deal with this matter. The issue I am raising relates to the legislation passed by both Houses on the restructuring of the adjudication system for the taxation of costs where agreement cannot be reached between a party which has succeeded in a case and a party which has lost. There were two Taxing Masters in the...