Results 1-20 of 642 for long speaker:Colm Burke

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Colm Burke: ...communities. This campaign was rolled out across 2023 and into early 2024. Healthy Ireland has also developed a strategic action plan 2021-25, which sets out a roadmap for improving and supporting the lifelong health and well-being of the people of Ireland. Under this plan, social prescribing has been rolled out as an important initiative in minding your mood. Social prescribing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Colm Burke: I will come back to the Deputy. I wanted to say that as someone coming from a legal background I understand this, but I accept 14 years is a long timeframe and it should not take that long. Work continues on the provision of health centres in the Galway region. The primary care in Moycullen opened in April 2023. Proposed-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...for Health. I thank the Deputy for raising the matter of children on waiting lists for scoliosis surgery. The Minister acknowledges that waiting lists for scoliosis services are unacceptably long. He is acutely conscious of the burden this places on patients and their families. For this reason, the Minister for Health committed €19 million to scoliosis and spina bifida services...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...be. It is important to emphasise that. I thank Deputy Gould for raising this issue. It is important that people do have access to services in a timely manner. SouthDoc is committed to the long-term continuation of its out-of-hours services in Cork city. I reiterate that there are no plans to close the Blackpool treatment centre. The Minister for Health has made it clear that he is...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...Comhairle and the Members here today for their kind comments regarding my new role as Minister of State. I look forward to working with all Deputies. As Deputy Shortall knows, I have served a long apprenticeship in the health committee. I think I am one month short of 13 years on the health committee, so I have served a long apprenticeship. I hope it can be of benefit to me in my new...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: Why should they take a long time? For instance, in my area of Cork, Glanmire, there was a project where the OPW agreed to buy a building and it took six years to complete the sale. That is an area with a population of over 25,000, and Garda members were operating out of a station that was totally out of date. Why should an area with such a huge population not have the infrastructure? Is...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...wondering about the timeframe for roll-out. In a discussion on an earlier question, I mentioned the growth of the older population and the need to fast-track new ways of managing both homecare and long-term care in nursing homes. I am not sure whether there has been any co-ordination between the HSE and public and private nursing homes regarding computerisation. Computerisation means...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I fully accept the point about oversight, but how long will it take to set that up? Could it be done in three months if people put their minds to it?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...is for Mary, Michael or Pat to have to go into a nursing home. It is really important that we work towards getting the additional hours and getting support for people to keep them in their own homes for as long as possible.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...parents or relatives trying to get home care and by commercial providers of home care. They find that the number of hours being allocated and the way those are allocated means there is quite a long delay. Where someone has been looking for home care and the HSE has exhausted its efforts to find someone who has worked with the HSE to provide that, private contractors are contacted, but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are we doing enough work in respect of the roles that are becoming redundant in real terms? Long ago, when a person went to college and got a degree, it would last them a lifetime. Now, however, in the context of business and what is happening in the world, things are changing very fast. Are we doing enough to examine the roles that are becoming redundant? Do we have adequate training in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (27 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to adding long Covid to the list of diseases for which workers who have the required number of PRSI contributions can claim occupational injuries benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8921/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...in the HSE previously. It is not a criticism; rather it is the volume of work involved. I have seen it with respect to applications under the fair deal scheme where we are waiting for quite a long time before applications are fully assessed. I am concerned. The old procedure, as I understand it, was they went to the provider, they filled out the forms there, the prostheses or bras were...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...investigation, that goes on for a significant period. The figures in that regard have been provided. Mr. Hume is saying many of the cases are now dealt with in two years, but it is still quite a long period. Is GSOC under pressure in the context of the possibility that a person could claim it is taking an unreasonable period, such as two years, to carry out what might be a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The question I am asking is why is it so long. Take social welfare, for example. In 2022, it issued 302,000 PPS numbers to people from 202 different countries but we cannot do this in health. We have our medical cards computerised and all of that done but we have not computerised our medical records or patient records so that you we not have this crazy waste of time that is going on at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does that mean that the project of the elective hospital has been put on the long finger?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...Union has made huge strides in those 70 years, yet we now have countries in the Middle East that are at a standstill. As regards the problem in Gaza, this relates to a strip of land 21 km long and 10 km wide. In terms of my county, it equates to the land between Cork city and Youghal. There are 2.1 million people living there. In the past four months they have been moved to totally...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...sector eligible for funding equivalent to the better energy warmer homes scheme for low-income tenants and their landlords, based on a tenant receiving the housing assistance payment and having a long term lease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the necessary funding to increase the capacity of early intervention in school aged teams to address issues relating to long waiting lists and inadequate service provision for children with additional educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56656/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...scheme, 736 houses have been delivered over 13 years. That works out at 56 houses per annum. Under proposals for development, the Department is talking about 12 sites. Why is it taking so long to get proposals for development? In fairness, 13 years is a long time to get to that point. If a private developer acquires land and does not have it developed 13 years later, that developer...