Results 121-140 of 12,155 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the auto-enrolment pension will be classified as an occupational pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will revise the fee paid to dentists holding contracts under the dental treatment benefit scheme; the status of these plans; the timeframe for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58675/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a non-contributory pension for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be reached; if serious consideration will be given to awarding this pension due to their means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship application will be completed given it is 30 months since the application for a person (details supplied) was first lodged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58234/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-productive investment applications received under the ACRES and ACRES-CP schemes for 2023 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1521. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider granting inclusion for a centre (details supplied) in the Family Resource Centre Programme funding which was announced in Budget 2026 for ten additional family resource centres, in view of the fact there is no family resource centre in the northern side of Cork City; if she is aware that no centre in Cork was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 1630. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department has taken following the final report on the inclusion health framework (details supplied) which was submitted earlier in spring 2025; the further actions she and her Department plan to take on this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the drug payments scheme who are in receipt of insulin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2016. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons 917 applicants were not approved for reimbursement support for CGM sensors between 1 December 2023 and 31 December 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2085. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the provision of braces to a child (details supplied), as the family were informed it would be 5.5 years before they would receive this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2086. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether a child (details supplied) could apply for funding under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in order to get braces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60159/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2087. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the actions her Department is taking in order to reduce dental waiting times for children on public patient lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2088. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be funding opportunities for dental schools in Cork and Dublin to undertake primary research into the area of oral heath for schoolchildren; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 2089. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to putting an accredited Autologous stem cell transplant centre in place in Cork University Hospital; as persons with cancers such as multiple myeoloma in Cork are required to travel to Galway for this treatment at a very difficult time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60187/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: I will be very brief. I do not want to go back over what has been raised. I apologise for being late. Unfortunately, I had an event in Cork today I had to come back up from. On the EU prospectus regulation, as a result of this issue with Israel coming up, has there been any discussion at European level? This same issue could arise with another country in 12 months' or two years' time....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: The whole issue is about not having restrictions. What occurred in the country in question was appalling. It is genocide and there is no question about that. That state is able to borrow money to continue on. It will argue it was not used for the war itself but it is being used in the occupied territories, etc. Is there not now an obligation from a European point of view? The whole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: What I am asking is whether there has been a discussion on the need-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: -----in the sense that when the EU process was established, it was about bringing peace and restoring peace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: But can central banks not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Colm Burke: Yes, but can central banks not look at this from their own point of view, because the process has to come through one of their units in whichever country it is? Is there then not a role for the central banks to play their part and maybe influence people from a political point of view as well?