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Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: When Senator Byrne's Government had money-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Housing for People with Disabilities (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: The motion I have submitted relates to funding from the Department to the local authority to enable it to adapt local authority houses to accommodate people with physical or intellectual disabilities. I wish to raise one case, in particular. A family with a daughter who has physical and intellectual disabilities applied to Cork City Council to have their house adapted because the child had...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Housing for People with Disabilities (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. I accept how funding is allocated. My issue is with who is responsible for delivering. Ten days ago I spent an hour on the telephone, going from one person to another within the city council. I went from the official who had inspected the house to the official in charge of finance to the architects' department and back to finance....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I join with colleagues in welcoming the decision by Apple to develop the facility near Athenry.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I too welcome the decision by Apple to develop the facility near Athenry. It is important to give recognition to Apple for the contribution it has made to economic development of Cork where it currently employs more than 4,000 people. It is a huge employer and has played a major part in the Cork region. I want to kill the rumour that it moved to Athenry because we overheat in Cork from...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. I thank him for bringing forward this Bill which is a major step in providing redress for the women who were in the Magdalen laundries. Nothing was done for them, even though they had suffered for decades. The Government has now faced up to the issue and the Bill should be seen in a positive light and as a good...

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: Does Senator Leyden have much experience of that?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I am pleased to announce this morning that the Minister for Health is establishing the national rare diseases office. Both Senator van Turnhout and I have been raising this for some time. The Minister confirmed in a reply to a Commencement matter I raised this morning and in a reply by letter that €100,000 has been provided this year for setting up the office, and €200,000 for...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: It is fine to talk about it; we actually act, not talk. We deliver.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: We are delivering in that area. The Senator should keep that in mind the next time he criticises the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I have raised the matter of children dropping out of the education system with the Minister previously and understand that this falls under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills. However, I had a consultation yesterday with the people providing a centre in Cork which now has 45 children who have dropped out of education attending it. Schools are getting the capitation grant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: Nine of the children this year have sat the junior certificate and two sat the leaving certificate applied. That was because of one-to-one education being provided on a voluntary basis by people up there, people who are either studying for their higher diploma or are retired teachers. They are doing the work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: VHI: Chairman Designate (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: Mr. Downey is welcome. I apologies for being late, I was in the Seanad dealing with a health issue. I have read Mr. Downey's presentation, in which he refers to 29 areas in which the VHI has changed the cover it provides from inpatient to outpatient. This is something I have raised on a number of occasions over the last three or four years. Is this process going to continue and does Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: VHI: Chairman Designate (19 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: Thank you.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I agree with my colleague Senator Mooney about IBEC and the US Chamber of Commerce. My message to IBEC is clear. We are spending €260 million a week in health care in this country. That budget will continue to increase because of the requirement for us to deal with the issues that arise as a result of people smoking. If they want to increase taxation, let them come out and state...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for responding to question No. 24. It is the same question that I submitted last September and it is unfortunate that it took six months to get the information I wanted on consultant vacancies. It appears that there are 325 vacancies in real terms. My question relates to subsection (f) of my question which is about the number of retirements expected in 2015. Again,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: My apologies. Has a review been carried out in respect of those appointments? The HIQA report on the ambulance service clearly identified that a number of staff appointed did not feel they had the skills to do the job. I do not accept the reply here that 1,527 people were appointed without interview, and that none of them has been identified as not having the skills. I ask that we get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Colm Burke: My question is on the HSE appointment of locums. It goes to the issue of a number of investigations which are under way. If someone is working in a hospital as a locum and an error is made, nothing prevents that person from being re-employed in another hospital. There is no mechanism to record issues. There is an issue arising where a hospital is short a doctor on a Friday, for example,...