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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. One of the issues I raised concerned Barnardos and the work it is doing. These are two separate programmes, but this is about co-ordination and working together. It is extremely important that this happens. The work the Department is doing means it has now acquired a great deal of expertise. It is the same with Barnardos and what it is doing. It also has a large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the €5 million pilot programme of counselling and well-being and mental health supports for the academic years 2024-25; to provide a breakdown of the progress in Cork in particular; if there are plans to expand the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40008/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I ask the Minister for to provide an

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister and welcome the success of this scheme. I am concerned, however, about whether it will continue. On Monday last, I met with Barnardos in Knocknaheeny in Cork where a programme is based. As the Minister will know, Barnardos total budget for the year is approximately €15 million. It gets €12 million through Tusla and there is a shortfall of approximately...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, for all the work done on flood relief programmes. The problem I have with them is the time it takes from start to finish. One, the Glanmire flood relief project, is being done in my constituency at the moment. It is nearing completion and was very well managed by the OPW. I am concerned about the one in Blackpool, which started in 2013 and, 12...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The Minister spoke of funding for Irish Water. More than 500 treatment plants throughout the country were built between 2002 and 2008. Many of the developers who built them have gone into liquidation or receivership. In one case in Whitechurch in Cork, raw sewage is flying out of the treatment plant into the stream. I have taken samples from it. I have been writing to Cork County...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: With regard to records that are already in place, some, although not all, of the maternity units have computerised records. The first four involved began doing this five years ago. Can the electronic record relating to a baby born in a maternity units be passed on if that child is subsequently brought to the children's hospital 12 months later? Will such records be capable of being passed...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: There are 19 maternity units. How many operating electronic systems?

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Electronic records very much relate to mothers. I am asking whether electronic records is kept in respect of babies following birth.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

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Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The other issue I want to ask about is with regard to the number of systems. In Denmark, they were down to 25 systems about four years ago. They are now working towards having five systems. My understanding is that between all the hospitals, GPs and pharmacies, we had something like 1,700 different systems. What is the number now?

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: If we go back to the maternity services, on the basis that when a child is born and an electronic record is being kept from the start, the question is about the priority of getting every maternity unit to operate an electronic system. Mr. Tierney referred to a figure of 70%, but it is about moving forward from there. The issue is the timescale we were talking about whereby if we have 70%...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Deputy Cullinane raised the issue about cost and there is an important question about controlling costs in the development of this. However, we also need to look at savings that will be achieved by having the system there. I referred to Denmark earlier. Back in 2004, Denmark worked out that they were saving about €1.5 billion per annum because of their computerised system. I would...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Without consent? Say, for argument's sake, the person is not able to give consent.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The reason I am raising it is that I was dealing with an incident where someone who had come in from Germany had a psychiatric problem and was admitted to hospital. The person would not give their consent. He was on medication but the German authorities would not release his records. The doctors could not work out even what medication he was on, to such an extent that he had to be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase licensed taxi drivers and vehicle supply in order to support the urban, rural, and night-time economies by at least 30% by 2027 given the significant shortage of taxis in the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40022/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase licensed taxi drivers and vehicle supply in order to support the urban, rural, and night-time economies, in particular taking into account recent NTA figures which show a 4% decline in taxi driver numbers in Cork since 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40026/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to remove the current legislation that requires newly registered taxi vehicles to be wheelchair accessible vehicles in order to allow part-time drivers to enter the market, taking into account that there is a significant shortage of taxis in the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider increasing the wheelchair accessible vehicles SPSV grant scheme in order to financially support drivers to convert their vehicles into wheelchair accessible taxis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reforming the SPSV driver entry test in relation to specific geography-based knowledge, in view of the advancement in satellite navigation technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40025/25]