Results 101-120 of 11,236 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to alleviate the pressure that pharmacist staff at the HSE corporate pharmaceutical unit (CPU) are working under because of resource challenges; the total current personnel numbers for the CPU (including whole-time equivalent data) and comparative data for March 2024 and March 2023; the plans that exist to address resource challenges; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the number of businesses offering sunbeds according to the HSE National Environmental Health Service in each of the years 2014 to 2025, in tabular form. [16137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 316. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, including the geographical breakdown, of each of the businesses offering sunbeds who notified the HSE Environmental Health Service, based on the latest available data. [16138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 317. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who attended a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic nationally; including the number who were offered an appointment within the recommended timeframe, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025 to date, respectively, in tabular form. [16139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 318. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of people who received a cancer diagnosis via a pigmented lesion rapid access clinic, for each quarter from 2016 to 2025, respectively, in tabular form. [16140/25]

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

Colm Burke: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if State supports for those looking to quit nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes and vapes are being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports for travel expenses, and other related costs, available to patients, or their travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 321. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the circumstances where air or sea travel fares are covered for patients, or a travelling companion, under the treatment abroad scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 0 to 24 years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recipients of the HSE treatment abroad scheme aged 25 plus years of age who have travelled outside of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in Ireland in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; including the total number of applicants to the scheme seeking to avail of specialised cancer treatment for each of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 334. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the "pause" of mesh for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence that has been in place since July 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the pause on mid-urethral sling surgery has not been lifted even though national guidelines which were commissioned, endorsed and published by the HSE in January 2023, recommend that all women who need surgery for stress urinary incontinence should be offered this as an option alongside all other appropriate surgical operations; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if the 19 recommendations made by the chief medical officer in his 2018 report "The use of Uro-Gynaecological mesh in surgical procedures" have been addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Mesh Oversight Group has produced the report it was commissioned to complete by the end of 2023; if so, when this report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 338. To ask the Minister for Health if the current chief medical officer has provided an update on the pause of mesh for the surgical treatment of stress incontinence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16234/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the reason why women with stress incontinence are not offered mid-urethral sling surgery as an option, despite the national clinical guidelines recommending that women have a choice of procedure and that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022, providing for their legal right to make informed decisions about their health; and if she...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: I support the motion of confidence in the Ceann Comhairle. She retains my full confidence. As the democratically elected Chair of this House, she deserves the respect of all its Members. She was democratically elected. As a former colleague of hers on the Committee of Public Accounts, I know of her work rate and her commitment to fairness, due procedure and full accountability. I know...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an exemption could be made for an SEAI warmer homes scheme application (details supplied), in view that the applicant is the spouse of the person in receipt of the qualifying social welfare allowance, which is a requirement in the eligibility criteria of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme given a revised itemised cost breakdown was submitted to the Department on 18 February 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (1 Apr 2025)

Colm Burke: Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and can rapidly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The programme for government commits to ‘Increase the availability of naloxone and train relevant individuals on its use’. Naloxone services including Naloxone training is part of an integrated approach to reducing drug harm under the National Drugs Strategy. The Department of Health...