Results 10,121-10,140 of 11,279 for speaker:Colm Burke
- Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014.
- Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for bringing forward this legislation. It is extremely important that proper regulation be put in place to deal with sunbeds. The Minister said there were approximately 10,000 cases of skin cancer in 2011, which is a huge number. In discussing the health service, people tend to focus on the issues that affect them directly, not realising...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: In the three years before Fianna Fáil left Government-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)
Colm Burke: I have.
- 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.