Results 641-660 of 4,583 for speaker:Colm Burke in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 47. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that currently have free Wi-Fi in public areas as of August 2023, in tabular form; and the estimated cost of ensuring that every public hospital in this country has Wi-Fi available for patients. [40619/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 67. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to further restrict the sale of single-use vapes in the country, especially those aimed at children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40618/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Services Staff (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action his Department is taking to improve the number of places in healthcare and therapy areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Construction Industry (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action his Department is taking to recruit more women to construction, in view that the shortage of construction workers is one of the biggest challenges facing the building industry, with not enough skilled labour to meet the demand for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new afforestation scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40771/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to increase afforestation in view that there has been almost an 80% drop in all new forestry plantings since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine under the new Forestry Programme 2023-2027, if preference will be given to support the preservation of certain habitats over others like open hill, depleted upland bog and heathland, even if native woodland was the original habitat in a given area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to increase native woodland establishment targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department is taking to ensure that the native woodland establishment scheme is a viable options for investors, in view that the current allowable land for planting this schedule is priced above the financial return from the premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40775/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if environmental impact assessments thresholds have been reviewed before the implementation of the new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 in view that the current mandatory EIA thresholds can be extremely costly having resulted in the abandonment of potential native woodland planting applications; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given under the new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 to a comparison of the value of biodiversity and flora and fauna of native woodland verses the current habitat’s representation of number and volume of species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40777/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given under the new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 to a more compacted and applicant friendly planting licensing process, in view of the ever-lengthening licence application process for approval to attract more applicants and investors going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40778/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transfer of Entitlements (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the status of a transfer of entitlements application (details supplied) in view that it is now over eight months since the application was lodged and it has not been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40779/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 250. To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure that cancer treatment units are adequately staffed, in view that nationally there are approximately four treatment units closed, with another three capped at 50% capacity, and a number of treatment units are understaffed wherein they are usually staffed at four but now are running with three staff to keep the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 251. To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure that all CT planning scanners are operational nationally, in view that presently two CT planning scanners are not operational due to a staff shortage, and as a result patients have their start dates pushed out which is reflective in the National Cancer Control Programme national key performance indicators data;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm that consideration would be given to increasing the standard fund threshold for pension contributions of €2 million, which was set in October 2014, to €2.4 million, in view of the fact that the consumer price index has increased by 19.7% since October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 230. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider the inclusion of automobile engineering in his Department's critical skills occupations list, in view of the critical shortage of qualified automotive mechanics in the motor industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39696/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification as to the reason that parents of children attending a primary school, which would be considered a feeder school for a secondary school (details supplied), are now being advised that their children are not entitled to school transport to the secondary school; the reason that this was not explained to the parents at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that only five hours have been allocated for home tuition to a child (details supplied) when that child, who was diagnosed with autism/ASD in August 2020, has educational challenges attending school; if consideration would be given to granting additional hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40466/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2023)

Colm Burke: 620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration would be given to classifying long-Covid as an occupational illness, in line with other European countries such as France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Denmark, which have formally recognised long-Covid as an occupational disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39752/23]