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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the progress of the northern distributor road, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34133/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to progress the North Ring Road in Cork city; the level of funding will be allocated for the coming year in view of the large volume of traffic forced to travel through Mayfield, including traffic heading for the port facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34134/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a person’s (details supplied) invalidity pension appeal; when a decision will be reached given that it has been lodged for nearly a year and that serious consideration would be given to granting this allowance due to the applicant’s circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications submitted to the South African visa desk in the Dublin Visa Office, for each month, from July 2024 to 31 May 2025; the number of applications which have been processed in the same timeline, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34218/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action his Department is taking to ensure that target processing times of visa applications to the South African visa desk in the Dublin Visa Office are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 749. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the options available to women who have cancer and require breast surgery as regards their access to support services including breast protheses, and, in particular, whether they can attend any facility which is approved by the HSE regardless of where they are located; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 751. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of the new Obesity Policy and Action Plan, due to be published in early 2026; whether a public consultation on the new iteration of the policy and action plan will be conducted in the coming months, in advance of publication; if so, the timing for that consultation; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the current Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland Framework (Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025). OPAP covers a 10-year period up to 2025 and the overall aim is to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications, and reduce the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Appointments (24 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 806. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can progress with cataract treatment; when an urgent appointment will be made available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33934/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the further steps the Department is taking to support small and medium enterprises to reduce the cost of energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32906/25]

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

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the work they are doing. I know it is a very challenging time because there is also the whole amalgamation going on with the new children's hospital. On the current waiting issue, the HSE states that 65 cases are suspended. Do we have any idea of where those patients are now? Have they gone to other hospitals? Have they gone to other...

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

Colm Burke: Yes.

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

Colm Burke: Of the 65, where the treatment is suspended, where are we with that 65 now? Are they just left sitting there waiting for further decisions to be taken or are they being provided with the level of care they require and is it being provided 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: Is monitoring taking place to make sure? Will there be support for them once a procedure is provided?

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

Colm Burke: I come back to the issue where a surgery was carried out on a child and the procedure that was carried out was deemed not the best way of managing that patient. Obviously, there is a team with senior registrars, registrars and consultants. You now have, say, a senior registrar who has now become a consultant. In instances where families do not want any part of that team being involved in...

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

Colm Burke: If, for argument's sake, a senior registrar who was on the team when a surgery was carried out and the family, who were aware of who was on the team, are now concerned that they are being referred back to that person, who is a consultant now-----

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

Colm Burke: Are there processes in place to make sure that where concerns are raised by families regarding the care provided previously, they are not ending up back with any part of that previous team?

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

Colm Burke: I will move on to something totally different. I refer to the findings of a high attrition rate among support staff due to bullying issues and the whole issue about people in training finding it very difficult. Anyone who is in training - a senior house officer, a registrar or a senior registrar - will depend for references into the future on the person they are under. For that reason,...

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

Colm Burke: Does Ms Nugent accept there is an issue? Among trainee doctors, there is a fear of raising a concern because it may affect their future promotion prospects or even jobs within the particular hospital.

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

Colm Burke: Does Ms Nugent accept there was evidence that people were concerned about the processes taking place-----