Results 441-460 of 10,982 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to raising the income thresholds for the State pension (non-contributory) to take account of inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to the provision of a €5 per week digital allowance to those older persons who cannot afford digital devices or internet subscriptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish citizenship by naturalisation applications received by her Department for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number of applications which have reached a decision for each of these years; the number of applications that are still processing for each of these years; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s recently published report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine for the academic years 2022/2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1213. To ask the Minister for Health what steps he will take to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine in the school immunisation programme in consideration of the findings of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s recently published report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1214. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recently published Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s report (26/02/24) on the uptake of the HPV vaccine does not include information regarding the percentage of uptake achieved through the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up vaccination programme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health what steps he will take to address delays in diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases in light of the fact that more than a third of people with such conditions go for more than five years without a diagnosis and in recognition of the 300,00 people living with such diseases in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the up-to-date position regarding the location for the new genetics and genomics laboratory in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1336. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if the new genetics and genomics laboratory will be located at the new National Children’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1337. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm what interim measures are in place, if any, to ensure genetics testing continues to be carried out during relocation from its current home in CHI Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14229/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1338. To ask the Minister for Health when the addition of screening for SMA and SCID to the newborn bloodspot screening programme will commence given the fact that screening for SMA and SCID is not scheduled to take place at the current lab in Temple Street, but rather at the new National Children’s Hospital. As the new NCH is not due to open until at least Q2 2025, and an interim...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1339. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm when newborn babies will be screened for SMA and SCID as part of the newborn bloodspot screening programme; and where the testing for these conditions will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1340. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to the establishment of an infant feeding communication forum across departments that is, with responsibility for children, health, and marketing of commercial formula milks and the Health Service Executive to align government policy, funding and Health Service Executive practices for the purposes of increasing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1341. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to standardise breastfeeding education for healthcare professionals in maternity units and support in-service, role-specific breastfeeding education and training to enable implementation of the Baby Friendly Initiative in all 19 maternity units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to fully implement the World Health Organization Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and its subsequent World Health Assembly Resolutions in legislation and ensure that this legislation is monitored and enforced in a transparent manner independent of industry, with particular attention paid to advertising and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1343. To ask the Minister for Health to provide independent, evidence-based breastfeeding-related education and training to all healthcare professionals likely to encounter breastfeeding mothers or infants/young children in their clinical practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to provide for greater availability of breastfeeding preparation classes and breastfeeding support groups, and modes of delivery of same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1345. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop effective strategies for increasing awareness of infant and young child feeding materials within other sectors outside of the health service, for example, workplace settings, county councils, and allocate resources as required by the Health Service Executive to implement breastfeeding campaigns; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop an infant and young child feeding in emergencies preparedness plan specific to the Irish context in line with international guidance, incorporating and building on the operational guidance prepared by the Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group of the Emergency Nutrition Network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: 1346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop an up-to-date infant feeding policy for those with HIV in Ireland, in line with recent British HIV Association guidance, that would facilitate shared decision-making between healthcare professionals and service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14239/24]