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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an additional accommodation project application by a school (details supplied); when they can proceed to the next phase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school place for a child (details supplied) with additional needs be made available for the school year 2025/2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (8 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 802. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that consideration would be given to permitting a child (details supplied) attending an ECCE service before commencing primary school in the autumn to continue to attend a school aged childcare facility during the easter break and summer months, as the family have been informed that due to new Tusla...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 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.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 1092. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there has been any engagement between his Department and the Department of Health in respect of adopting a joint approach about the management and maintenance of burial grounds which are under the management or control of the Department of Health or HSE, with a view to adopting a joint approach as to how these burial grounds...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has now received an up-to-date environmental impact study in respect of the Blackpool flood relief scheme; the timeframe for when the public consultation will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16513/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: This question is related to Questions Nos. 102 and 103. I wish the Minister of State well in his new role in the Department of public expenditure. My question relates to the Blackpool flood relief scheme, which was initiated in 2013. In the past 12 years, little or no progress has been made on the matter. Has the Department received the up-to-date environmental impact study in respect of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for his reply but I am getting no answer to the question I raised. I asked when the Minister of State expected to have the environmental impact study back. When will we have a public consultation? When can we move on with this project? It is 12 years on and we have not made one single step forward on this project. I am frustrated. The fact is the OPW submitted the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: Can we get a timeframe for when the study will come from the OPW to the Department of public expenditure? When will we have a consultation? Have we a guideline? Will it be in three, six or 12 months' time? I fully understand the Department has to be extremely careful because it was a judicial review. However, we now have a situation where an area on the northside of the city is totally...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the small gift exemption for capital acquisitions tax from €3,000 to €5,000 from each person per year, as it has not been increased for a long number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the age related tax exemption to income tax from €18,000 per annum where an individual is aged 65 years or over, and €36,000 per annum for married couples and civil partners, jointly assessed to tax, where either individual is aged 65 or over, in view of the fact that there have been increases to the State...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has now received an up-to-date environmental impact study in respect of the Blackpool flood relief scheme; the timeframe for when the public consultation will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the up-to-date position in respect of the Blackpool flood relief scheme in view of the fact that there was major flooding over 12 years ago, that it was agreed that a flood relief programme would be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16045/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts being made by his Department to prioritise improvements in farmer mental health and well-being supports, in particular supports for rural mental health programmes, recognising the unique challenges faced by those in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13798/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: What efforts are being made by the Minister's Department to prioritise improvements in farmers' mental health and well-being supports, in particular supports for rural mental health programmes, recognising the unique challenges faced by those in the sector, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: A recent study - and there have been a number of them - by agri-mental health group Farming Minds in UCD found that 23.4% of farmers are considered at risk of suicide, 50% of farmers are currently experiencing moderate to extremely severe depression and almost 40% of farmers are experiencing moderate to extremely severe anxiety and stress. That report and other reports have been produced...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: It is important to highlight this issue, as I said, with the farming organisations but also to work with other groups in rural areas. There was a time when if you were, say, a dairy farmer, you went to the creamery and you met others at IFA meetings, Macra meetings or ICMSA meetings. However, a lot of meetings now are held on Zoom so there is not the same social contact. That is why it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: I raise the number of dental training places that are available in the universities in Ireland. It has not increased in the past 25 years, yet the population has increased by 1.5 million. The number of dentists taking part in the dental treatment services scheme has reduced from 1,492 to 810, which means 682 fewer dentists are available under the scheme. There is an urgent need to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of nicotine pouch sales recorded in the off-trade, by volume, and monetary value in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Apr 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.