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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms available by which a person (details supplied) can increase the rate of their State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33421/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; that serious consideration would be granted to awarding this allowance due to the nature of their medical circumstances, which are outlined in the medical documentation provided with their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of a person’s (details supplied) disability allowance review and appeal; when a decision is likely to be reached and that serious consideration would be granted to awarding this allowance due to their medical circumstances, which are outlined in the medical documentation provided with their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 386. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the current status of SouthDoc in Blackpool, as a number of users in the northside of Cork city have stated that the service appears to be wound down, that when they call to make an appointment that they are referred to a SouthDoc service on the southside of the city which is particularly difficult for people who have limited transport options;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments taken in SouthDoc in Blackpool, Cork, in each of the past 12 months; the number of patients that were unable to be seen in Blackpool and were referred to SouthDoc in Kinsale Road, Cork from Blackpool in the same time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33241/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: The average time from when a medicine is approved by the European Medicines Agency to it being available in Ireland is 617 days. Between 2004 and 2025, 402 new medicines were approved by the European Medicines Agency, of which 71% had applications made in Ireland. In other words, for 117 medicines approved by the EMA, no licence or approval has been applied for here. It is the whole delay...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: May I just mention-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that the Minister of State and her Department are working very hard on this issue, but there is a crisis here. We have got to deal with it before the college places are awarded in UCC and Trinity. That is the reason why I am asking the Department to engage with them. The other issue that needs to be dealt with - and this is a case where both the Department of Health and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: The issue I wish to raise, which I am aware was raised in the House recently, relates to the number of places for dental students in Ireland. In UCC in 2023, 61 students qualified as dentists. Of these, 25 were European, including Irish, and 36 were from outside Europe. In Trinity the same year, 41 students qualified. Of these, 25 were Irish or European and 21 were non-Europeans. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today and for their presentation. In starting, I wish to say that I have been in Gaza. I was there in 2009. The warnings I gave when I was a member of the European Parliament at that time have come home to roost in the sense of the dangers. It was during the changeover of the American Presidency between 27 September 2008 and 18 January...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: It is a general question. I will come back to the Central Bank issue. I wish to tease this one out because the impression being given is that the Irish Government has done absolutely nothing on this issue. That has been the presentation here. It is important we get it balanced. I will come back to the issue of the Central Bank, but I am asking another question. Do the witnesses believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: Has the Irish Government fallen down in any area in dealing with the UN or at a European level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I said I would come back to the Central Bank. I am asking Ms Mahony a specific question. Does she believe Ireland has fallen down at any level, from a European point of view, outside of the Central Bank issue, which I will come back to? At both European and UN level, has the Irish Government fallen down in any way in its role as a State in highlighting the atrocities that are occurring in Gaza?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: In what sense?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I am talking about working-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: -----at an international level. At international and UN levels, does Ms Mahony accept the Irish Government has highlighted all of the atrocities and the wrongs that have been done in Gaza? Does she accept the Irish Government has done that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: It is a straight question. It is a yes-no answer. Does Ms Mahony accept that the Irish Government has done everything possible at UN and European Union levels on the issue of Gaza?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: It is a yes-no answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: What more could have been done at an international level, specifically from a UN point of view?