Results 41-60 of 273 for long speaker:Peter Burke

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (1 Mar 2023)

Peter Burke: ...rapid improvements and services in the region. These measures include a renewed focus on hospital avoidance, patient flow and discharge planning, and regular and frequent assessments of patients with long stays in hospital. Reform of service delivery, as outlined in Sláintecare, is vital to deal with the demand. This includes the expansion of community care and other measures,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (1 Mar 2023)

Peter Burke: ...matter on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, who has been concerned for some time about the congestion experienced in the emergency department at UHL, which has led to long patient experience times and patients waiting on trolleys for admission. According to the HSE’s TrolleyGAR, there were 470 patients counted on trolleys at 8 a.m. in February 2023. This...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Burke: 433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a long-standing offer of accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Peter Burke: 857. To ask the Minister for Health when cardiopathy will be listed and covered under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7358/23]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Peter Burke: ...crime. The second is competitiveness. While urgent political attention is necessarily devoted to the war in Ukraine and its immediate economic impacts, strengthening Europe's economy to meet our long-term challenges must also remain an important focus. Europe's strength and global standing depend on our economic resilience, building on the dynamism of the Single Market and its...

Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: ...unacceptable. I am also happy that we have our suite of measures for sick leave, which is very important in the support of local authority members as they discharge their functions. We have a long, incremental journey of work to continue the reforms for local authority members. In the first instance, maternity leave and the Moorhead proposals have been introduced, which have made a...

Seanad: Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: ...total. In addition to the four ordinary members who are the subject of the motion, two ex officiomembers, namely, the Clerk of the Dáil and the Ombudsman, will also sit on an coimisiún. The holders of these senior public offices have for a long time been involved in the functions which an coimisiún is taking on, for example, constituency commissions and referendum...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authorities (8 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: ....  There is some variation with regard to regional distribution, which means that the outcome is closer to the 'business as usual' as opposed to the NPF projection scenario, but this is unsurprising after only 4 years of a long-term strategy. Notwithstanding population growth and distribution, the Housing Supply Target (HST) methodology remains valid for development plan purposes....

Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: ...AILG, LAMA and the Office of the Planning Regulator to get more training seminars for councillors in order to assist them in going about their daily duties. They absolutely need that support. As long as I am in this job, I will keep working to try to enhance the role of local councillors. I want to make it more meaningful and ensure that they have more devolved powers. That is what we...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: ...coming months. Analysis suggests this could prevent more than 2,000 tenancies being terminated. This emergency measure is necessary and will provide assistance in the short term. However, over the long term the answer remains an increased and sustainable supply of new housing. We will be adding significant social housing to our stock in 2022. The quarter 2 construction status report...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...upon its enactment until the winter is over, and until 18 June for some tenancies. The broad consensus of Deputies across the Opposition is that five months of enhanced protections is not long enough and these essential protections should be extended for up to 17 months. The efforts by Government through Housing for All in delivering supply at scale over the coming months aim to...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...the national community welfare office, which will direct callers to the appropriate office. The housing assistance payment, HAP, is available as a social housing support from local authorities for people who have a long-term housing need. Any household assessed as eligible for social housing is immediately eligible for HAP. Where the circumstances of rent supplement or HAP recipients...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (25 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...very specific space requirements as a result of their disability or illness. By way of clarification, the CEUD recently advised my Department that “UD Home ++ is a more person-focused approach to home design and construction. A UD ++ home may be provided for a person with a long-term illness or disability. The home would be planned and designed with the end user’s needs in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...colleagues in the HSE to ensure that these payments are made as soon as possible. Funding will be allocated through the established mechanism of the temporary assistance payment scheme to providers of long-term residential care who participate in the nursing home support scheme. This will ensure that payments can be made quickly and I have no doubt that this will be very much welcomed...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...leave the current access arrangements as they stand. That is, access is restricted to the parents of the child recorded in the register and staff of the GRO. A second option is to provide full public access along the lines of other registers held by the GRO. A third option would fall short of full public access but would provide access to a wider cohort of family members and family...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Registration (4 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: ...Regulations 2019, which came into effect on 1 July 2019. The aim of the legislation was to return much-needed accommodation being used for short-term letting purposes in the designated RPZs to the long-term rental market, thereby increasing supply in the long-term rental market and helping to stabilise rents in those areas. Given that short-term letting accommodation is technically...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Registration (4 Oct 2022)

Peter Burke: -----for having the robust controls which will ensure a balance in the long-term residential rental market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Peter Burke: ...Ryan. We will raise those issues of affordability with him. We know that there is a very significant effort being made to try to transform our economy into a net zero carbon economy. This is a long journey we are embarking upon and it is going to take significant capital funding to unlock many of those communities. Where I am from, in very rural areas like Longford and Westmeath, one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Peter Burke: ...they may have on the environment and on the wider society at large. That, in itself, was a large body of work. I am confident that those exemptions have been assessed already as it has taken so long to get through this process, between negotiating with the various different safeguarding actors who have responsibility for glint and glare and for our aerodromes, as well as going through...