Results 10,101-10,120 of 11,255 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I welcome the announcement yesterday that the Government is proposing €30 million as a grant towards the rebuilding of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork? It is a €70 million project. I also welcome the additional money being provided to local authorities to refurbish vacant houses. Over 800 additional vacant houses will be refurbished. My question for the Leader concerns...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: In response to Senator White, in the three years before Fianna Fáil left office, 7,000 jobs were being lost every month. We are now creating ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: We are now creating 5,000 jobs a month ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: --- or over 1,000 jobs per week.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: That is what this Government is now doing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I do. Yesterday the Government announced funding of €10 million for cycle green ways and a number of other projects in rural areas, including €2 million for Lough Derg development ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: In the three years before Fianna Fáil left Government ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Some 125 reports - Fianna Fáil must be very proud of this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I want to open up the debate on health care because it is important to state the position. There are 11 maternity units in the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: There are 11 maternity units throughout the country, each of which employes three medical consultants, including an obstetrician and a gynaecologist. I have spoken to a medical practitioner who attended a conference recently at which it emerged that 20 medical consultants were employed at a unit in Denmark at which 3,000 babies were delivered each year. That is one consultant per 150 babies...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: In Ireland-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----there is one medical consultant to every 500 to 750 babies delivered.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: That is the basic position. If the Senator wants to discuss reports-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----he should remember that his party's leader, when serving as Minister for Health and Children, commissioned 125 reports. I do not understand, therefore, why he is referring to one report-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: -----when his party leader commissioned 125 reports and did nothing about any of them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I do have a question for him. Let us have a debate about health care. Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I wish to comment on the fact that someone referred to the cost of drugs.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction, the cost of drugs to the taxpayer increased. It is the taxpayer that pays for drugs, not the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)
Colm Burke: Under Fianna Fáil's jurisdiction, the cost of drugs increased from €560 million per year to €2 billion.