Results 1-20 of 273 for long speaker:Peter Burke

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Student Accommodation (20 Mar 2024)

Peter Burke: ...been challenging. That is why the Department of further and higher education is working on a number of projects to activate on-campus accommodation. The University of Galway has submitted a proposal for a long-term student accommodation leasing project. This proposal is currently being examined by the Higher Education Authority, HEA, as part of the due diligence assessment. A number...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Student Accommodation (20 Mar 2024)

Peter Burke: As the House will be aware, the Minister, Deputy Harris, secured Government support for his Department's long-term student accommodation policy in January. The policy sets out a number of measures to increase the supply of accommodation through all forms of tenure, recognising the differing regional needs. The aim of the policy is to increase the supply of student accommodation and to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Historical Artefacts (20 Mar 2024)

Peter Burke: ...in 2024. The chair is of significance because John Devoy used it while writing his memoir, Recollections of an Irish Rebel. This memoir was first published in 1929 and is an account of John Devoy’s long career as an Irish nationalist republican revolutionary from the 1850s until the 1920s. This important historic record is his narrative account of the Fenian movement and its...

Seanad: Second Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Statements (22 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...EU reforms in such extraordinary circumstances. It offers the prospect of a brighter future for the Ukrainian people. lreland is very much committed to supporting Ukraine as it progresses along its European path. Senator Byrne referred to the accession of ten countries, the anniversary of which we will celebrate this year. At that juncture, Ireland held the Presidency of the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...Council. It re-presents the argument that, in the accession process, so many thresholds require unanimity. Take North Macedonia for example. It had to change its name. That process took a long time. Now Bulgaria is raising issues with minorities, which again took a huge amount of diplomatic pressure. Citizens in that country are wilting because of all those issues. It is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...in the Dáil to talk about the European Council, he has been there asking pertinent questions about the European context and the issues facing Europe. I wish him well, although I hope there is a long time to go yet in this current Dáil and look forward to working with him into the future. On the Deputy's second last question, which was about Israel, we spoke about that issue...

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

Peter Burke: ...circumstances and the need to keep candidate countries on a clear EU path. The Commission will provide further a report in March, which it is hoped will facilitate additional steps. Ireland has long supported a merit-based enlargement process and the Commission's 2023 enlargement package highlighted the work that is going on across candidate countries to ready themselves for EU...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...current situation. The Tánaiste will continue to argue that calling for an immediate ceasefire should be the common position for the whole of the EU as it is for the majority of member states. Ireland, along with a number of like-minded member states, is advocating for greater leadership on the part of the EU that better reflects the views of member states, of the global...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...7 October and the disproportionate response we have seen coming from the Israeli Government in the intervening period. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. It is 41 km long and only 6 km wide. A total of 1.9 of the 2.1 million residents have been displaced, with over 25,000 people killed, 70% of whom are women and children. I condemn Israel for its collective...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: 1773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips (insulin and metformin) to all women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy; if he agrees with the decision to remove them from the scheme and if he will now reverse that decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1804/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Pensions (5 Dec 2023)

Peter Burke: ...xc9; Group is actively engaged in introducing changes to its pension schemes aimed at rectifying the significant deficit in order to meet the statutory minimum funding standard, and that these changes also aim to sustain the pension schemes into the long term. In respect of the regular wages scheme, I am advised the Minister for Transport signed three statutory instruments related to...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "agrees that: — the Government reiterates Ireland's longstanding policy of military neutrality; — Ireland's neutrality is characterised by non-membership of military alliances or common or mutual defence arrangements; — the Government has no plans to...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Peter Burke: ...eyes in the Middle East. It is horrific to see some of the pictures, scenes and videos coming from the Gaza Strip. It is an area that is exceptionally densely populated. It is just over 40 km long and 12 km wide at its widest part. Israel has been bombarding the area since the original attacks in early October. The scale of the attacks in an area that is so densely populated beggars...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...of stress-testing, debating decisions and trying to form consensus, for which we have always been a catalyst. I would take it as just a report by experts that will be discussed at length in a long process. There are huge discussions at every meeting we are at on enlargement and what it would look like. We have to continue to work from an Irish perspective on that and look at our history...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...ensure it gets access to the finance it needs and enhanced loans and grant support. If we look at the trajectory and the time it took to agree the current strand of the MFF to 2027, it was a very long negotiation process. It took significant time and effort to reach that agreement. The budget is coming under pressure in a number of areas. Interest rates have increased so interest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...as a Government is that if we increase funding, it is going to cost more for us as a State. Not only that but we are focused on trying to exhaust the current provisions of the budget because it took a long time to negotiate the current multi-annual financial framework and we do not want to go back into a major negotiating process when we have various lines that have not been exhausted...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Peter Burke: ...help borrowers in mortgage arrears. The Government recently decided to extend the scheme for a further four years. The scheme has proven critical in terms of supporting families who find themselves in serious long-term arrears and are at risk of losing their homes. More than 26,400 households have been supported since the scheme was set up in 2016. The scheme is delivering real benefit...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Nursing Homes (12 Jul 2023)

Peter Burke: ...needs of our growing and ageing population. A key focus of our Sláintecare reform programme is recognising the need to enable older people to age well at home and in their communities for as long as possible with the correct wraparound supports. Older people want to age well at home and it is important the supports they need are in place, including wraparound services like home...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

Peter Burke: Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022 to 2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities and approved housing bodies. In light of the number of landlords exiting the market this year, the Government has...