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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (16 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I fully accept the answer the Minister of State has given in the sense that cost-effectiveness is also an important issue in relation to any new medicine that is made available under the drugs payment scheme. What I am saying, however, is that I understand that after the decision of July 2024, there were further negotiations but, again, no progress was made. While there was a considerable...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (16 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: This comes issue under the Department of Health. My question on whether consideration will be given to putting in place a shingles vaccination programme to be made available to people over 65 or to immunocompromised patients in view of the fact that shingles vaccination is recommended by NIAC for those over 65 and for those who are immunocompromised and aged between 18 and 65. Shingles...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I welcome the reduction in VAT from 13.5% to 9% in the building industry. I understand there is a technical issue, however. If a housing agency owns the land and engages a contractor to build apartments, the builder will have to collect 13.5% rather than 9%. This will have an adverse effect on a number of projects in the Taoiseach's constituency, with which he and I are familiar. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I can give the Taoiseach a copy of the letter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming here this morning. I thank them for their work over the past years. I go back to the 2018 report. I think I am the only member of the health committee who is still here. I think Ms McGrath was there in 2018 when that report was drafted. Clear proposals were set out in that report about trying to expedite the process. There has been very little change in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: If you take Germany, for example, it brings a drug onto the market, and while I know we are talking about larger volumes of patients, it negotiates the price over the following 12 months and the drug is available to patients at a very early stage. I know it can afford to do that because it has larger numbers. We might have a drug that is only suitable for 50 patients here while it might be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: On assessments, there is the whole issue of, for argument's sake, a medication that is only suitable for 50 people a year. Can we join with other countries in sharing and processing the information so that rather than Ireland looking at ten cases with 50 patients in each case, we would share information with other countries? Ireland would take two of those and another country would take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Going back to the 2018 report, I was very involved in the drafting of that report. There was a draft report done first. I was involved in redrafting it and making sure we set out a clear programme of action. However, nothing has happened on that. I am concerned that we are here talking seven years later. Will the same conversation be held in seven years' time? I am concerned about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I am not saying they are paying for everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: It is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that, but it is creating a division and it is causing a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Overall, does Professor Barry accept that we need to improve the system we have?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement his Department has had with relevant stakeholders in relation to generational renewal policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54722/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The commission on generational renewal in farming has published its report. I ask the Minister what engagement the Department has had with relevant stakeholders on generational renewal policies and whether he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. As he will be aware, the report clearly sets out that only something like 4% of farmers are under 35 and 37% are over 65. This means we have a major challenge. It is also about the demands of farming. In dairy farming especially it is a seven-day week and people are on call all the time. There are jobs outside the agricultural sector that are very attractive. Only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Succession Act (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I am a solicitor and if we go back 25 years there was a lot of succession planning, whereas I find the same level of planning is not there now. I am wondering how we can encourage that, talk openly about it and ensure there is a plan in place. In one case, in order to do a proper transfer of land we had to transfer the land to the daughters-in-law because that was the only way we could do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I will be brief. I thank the Minister, the Department, the vets and all involved in this for all the work they are doing. One issue that has come to my attention is the additional compensation that is available. It is available on the basis that the total number of reactors is 9.5% or above. That is fine in a situation where it is 9.5% of 50 animals but if it is 9.5% of 300 animals and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in relation to examining a new farm income volatility taxation measure to safeguard farmers from markets rising and falling, as per the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54721/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to amending the current eligibility criteria for solar PV grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (14 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will review the current eligibility criteria for the solar PV grant scheme, in particular the stipulation that the applicant must be the owner of the home built and occupied before 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54911/25]