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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: -----and were afraid of saying anything? These were consultants who may not have been in place for too long but the senior people were totally in charge. How does the HSE now deal with that process into the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: There is an issue regarding trainees. Coming back to the patient, do we have a process in place for a patient who is unhappy but is afraid to ask questions? Are we satisfied we are giving enough information to patients so that they can raise concerns, if they have them, with someone independent of the care team who is appointed to look after the child?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: Are parents aware of that structure? Are they satisfied that their own position is not undermined by raising a concern?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: A big concern that has been raised with me by constituents over many years is that when they make a complaint to the hospital, it takes time for it to be dealt with. In some cases, people do not get answers for more than 12 or 18 months. Are we now satisfied that we have a structure that can deal with a complaint in a timely manner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: In respect of the whole process of amalgamation, there are differences. This is quite clear from what occurred with surgeries, where one hospital was doing them correctly and properly and two others provided treatment that it now appears was inappropriate. When the teams come together in one hospital, are we satisfied that we can get all of them to work together with no domination of one...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the implementation of an appeals system for the power-up scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32907/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of making fuel allowance universal for everyone over 70; that consideration will be given to implementing this change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33132/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that parents/guardians of children who are blind and in receipt of a free travel pass will also receive a travel pass in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33131/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that the parents of a child (details supplied) who is blind and in receipt of a free travel pass would also receive a travel pass in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm when the new stations under the expanded commuter rail programme for Cork, such as Blackpool, Blarney, Monard and Tivoli are due to be constructed; if there is a confirmed timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33293/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms available by which a person (details supplied) can increase the rate of their State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33421/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; that serious consideration would be granted to awarding this allowance due to the nature of their medical circumstances, which are outlined in the medical documentation provided with their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of a person’s (details supplied) disability allowance review and appeal; when a decision is likely to be reached and that serious consideration would be granted to awarding this allowance due to their medical circumstances, which are outlined in the medical documentation provided with their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 386. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the current status of SouthDoc in Blackpool, as a number of users in the northside of Cork city have stated that the service appears to be wound down, that when they call to make an appointment that they are referred to a SouthDoc service on the southside of the city which is particularly difficult for people who have limited transport options;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments taken in SouthDoc in Blackpool, Cork, in each of the past 12 months; the number of patients that were unable to be seen in Blackpool and were referred to SouthDoc in Kinsale Road, Cork from Blackpool in the same time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33241/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: The average time from when a medicine is approved by the European Medicines Agency to it being available in Ireland is 617 days. Between 2004 and 2025, 402 new medicines were approved by the European Medicines Agency, of which 71% had applications made in Ireland. In other words, for 117 medicines approved by the EMA, no licence or approval has been applied for here. It is the whole delay...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: May I just mention-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: I fully accept that the Minister of State and her Department are working very hard on this issue, but there is a crisis here. We have got to deal with it before the college places are awarded in UCC and Trinity. That is the reason why I am asking the Department to engage with them. The other issue that needs to be dealt with - and this is a case where both the Department of Health and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (18 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: The issue I wish to raise, which I am aware was raised in the House recently, relates to the number of places for dental students in Ireland. In UCC in 2023, 61 students qualified as dentists. Of these, 25 were European, including Irish, and 36 were from outside Europe. In Trinity the same year, 41 students qualified. Of these, 25 were Irish or European and 21 were non-Europeans. We...