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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: There will be a permanent office for the DPP in Cork and it will be fully staffed with a view to handling cases, I presume, for the Munster region. Is that the plan for dealing with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Regarding the issue of tariffs and the way forward from an Irish point of view, if that does arise and we have to deal with it in an overall context, have we evaluated the negative effects it will have on production levels and employment or does the Taoiseach believe we will be able to deal with the challenge? Has Government looked at this from the point of view of forward planning over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I want to move on to a different issue. The Taoiseach talked about the next Government action plan and we are very much focused on infrastructure. He mentioned the increasing population, and since 2000 the population has increased by 43%, with 1.6 million more people in the country. I know that we have created an extra one million jobs since 2011 but the challenge now is to do with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: It is only from September of this year that the places in Trinity College will increase from 30 to 50. In UCC the proposal is to increases places on the master's course from 12 to 24. It will still be a considerable time before they are all available, and the same applies to dentistry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: In 2023, 61 dentists qualified in UCC. Of those, 36 were not European and the position has not really changed over the last 20 years. Similarly in Trinity College, 46 dentists qualified and 21 of those were not European. I am only highlighting this issue in the sense that there are other service areas as well that we have not really focused on. The increases in population and in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I had an issue with a person who had dementia and was living on his own. More than €100,000 was taken from his bank accounts over the course of 12 months. When I filed a full complaint with An Garda Síochána, no action could be taken because the man would not be able to give evidence. How do we deal with cases like this? It is a challenge in the sense that there is clear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The witnesses accept that it is an issue and I was very annoyed over it. It could have been done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: How this money disappeared makes it very hard to track it, which is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: It is a challenge for older people with dementia, especially those living on their own. Gardaí may find that they cannot give clear instructions. It is a challenge and the question is about how people can be protected in that scenario. There are various legal issues that can be dealt with but it is a challenge that we need to deal with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: But we still do not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I will move onto the next issue of nursing homes. People are referring, and rightly so, to the RTÉ programme and the abuse that was clearly identified, but there are also two other challenges in nursing homes. One is in the gap between what public nursing homes are getting per bed per patient, which is around €1,969 per bed per week, whereas private nursing homes get something...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of foreign birth register applications that have been made from persons residing in the USA in the past five years, including this year to 30 June 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Isolation (9 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020–2025. [38451/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Page 112 of the programme for Government sets out quite clearly the implementation of the Dublin city task force report. It also refers to the need to set up a task force for Cork city. We are now 150 days on and I am wondering when it is proposed to set up this task force. I fully understand that a lot of work is being done by the city council, the business association, the chamber of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that he has engaged with both Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork with a view to increasing the number of Irish students that will be accommodated in dental training courses, in view of the fact that over 44% of training positions at the moment are provided to non-European students; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking to ensure there is an increase in qualified people coming into the workforce, in particular those required in essential services such as dentistry, dental hygienists, radiology and radiation therapists, in order to meet the needs of citizens, in view of the fact the population of the country has increased by 43% since...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a review of planning regulations in relation to a new and separate exempted development threshold for stand-alone nutrient storage, in view that the thresholds and conditions associated with the exemption are practical and enable farmers to make the necessary investment to deliver the required...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have had cardiovascular disease screening carried out on them as part of the opportunistic case finding and chronic disease prevention programme in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to the 30 June 2025, in tabular form; if any general statistics from this data will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 822. To ask the Minister for Health whether the commitment in the new National Sexual Health Strategy 2025-2035 to expand access to existing vaccination programmes in "private settings" includes pharmacy-based vaccination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37479/25]