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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to progress the Mallow relief road project; the current status of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63270/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: What action is the Department taking to progress the Mallow relief road project? What is the current status of the project, and will the Minister of State make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. As he knows, Mallow is quite close to Cork city. There is a huge volume of traffic now passing through Mallow because it is coming from either the Killarney side, the Fermoy-Mitchelstown side or the Limerick side. It is all coming into Mallow town. We need to prioritise this project because it is really having an adverse effect on the town as regards the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (18 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: It also ties in with the Cork-Limerick road and the importance of that development. We are 20 years on and we need to make sure that project moves on in the same way as this bypass road for Mallow. With regard to the volume of traffic travelling on that road, some mornings at 5.30, as I am driving to the station to take the train from Mallow to Dublin, there is a volume of traffic coming...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: In Australia, there are high numbers of people affected by flu. Likewise, the UK is expecting the same thing to happen. Here in Ireland, the take-up of the vaccine is very low. For instance, take-up of the vaccine stands at 17.5% of healthcare workers, 53.7% of fair deal residents, 42.6% of adults 60 and above, and 11% of those aged between two and 17. As we face into the winter months,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Where I am coming from is that in the Cork area, the land bank IDA Ireland has in Ringaskiddy is now totally built on and there is very little space available for new companies to come in. Likewise, many of the private business parks have been developed, such as Blarney Business Park, which has seen huge growth in the past five to eight years and is running out of space. My question is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: There is continued expansion. I visited one company recently that was doing a €60 million expansion and a number of other companies have plans to grow. The challenge is that some of them need to move to bigger sites. I welcome what the Minister said about a land bank because it is extremely important and also because of the port facility. The Ringaskiddy bypass road is now being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regional Development (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and Enterprise Ireland are reviewing current policies with a view to expanding opportunities in areas outside of the Dublin region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62265/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Ireland has a significant number of indigenous companies that have successfully scaled €100 million in revenue and turnover and 250 employees, creating essential local employment and economic prosperity across the country, especially in rural areas. Despite the efforts of many, the majority of the current State supports treats such companies as too large to be SMEs and too small to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: This is an important matter, because these companies create a huge amount of employment locally, especially in rural areas. It is important that we help them to expand further, particularly where they already have access to markets but are restricted because they need access to finance in order to expand. One of the companies I know has more than 800 employees, is operating outside Ireland...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and Enterprise Ireland plan to introduce a growth equity fund to help scale and co-invest in large privately owned Irish companies with a view to expansion in other jurisdictions; if his Department has researched similar programmes which are operational in other European countries, such as Denmark, Finland and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Do the Department and Enterprise Ireland plan to introduce a growth equity fund to help scale and co-invest in large privately owned companies with a view to expansion in other jurisdictions. Has the Department researched similar programmes which are operational in other European companies, such as Denmark, Finland and Germany?

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank all the people from the Department and HSE, and all the other groups that are here, for the work that they have done, not just in a short period of time but over many years. Many issues that I wanted to raise have already been raised, so I will not go over them. On the supervised injection facility, the Minister of State talked about a 12-month review. I understand there were to be...

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: It appears to me that the supports are not there adequately enough. I am concerned because it is not just about the women and fathers of children who may also be addicted. In the case I am dealing with, both were addicted. A child is a totally new party who is then in that scenario where there are not adequate supports. I am a bit concerned. I thought we had progressed on that issue but...

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: On the relationship with maternity units around the country, there are 19 maternity units. Is a structure in place for a particular unit to be able to get on to the HSE to co-ordinate support for the parents of that child and to support the child?

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I am not concerned about the people in the hospitals. Rather, I am concerned about the period after the child is born-----

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: -----and what structures we have in place to deal with that.

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: It is not just about the Department of Health; it is also about social services and a whole range of areas, such as local authorities with regard to housing, etc.

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Maybe someone could come back to me on that.

Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Just on the report from the supervised injection facility-----