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Committee on Drugs Use: Addiction, Sport and Well-being: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses and their organisations for the work they are doing. Without those organisations we would not have the sports infrastructure we do. One of the things that strikes me is that something like 90% of the people before the juvenile District Court at any time are not involved in any sports organisation, physical activity or any club. Something that came across to me...

Committee on Drugs Use: Addiction, Sport and Well-being: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Do we need to identify areas where there is not the expertise to deal with it and provide that support? It occurred to me very much in relation to Merchants Quay, where we had a local school with more than 180 children with very little access to any kind of sports facilities at all and no mechanism for helping that. I am concerned we are not doing enough in that area and that we all need to...

Committee on Drugs Use: Addiction, Sport and Well-being: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: What is the target date for having something in place to deal with that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Addiction, Sport and Well-being: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I will ask one another question in relation to clubs, and it is a totally different issue. Where clubs know there is a member who is actively dealing or providing access to drugs to other members of a club, have clubs been trained as regards how to carefully manage a situation like that in order to steer the person who is involved in that in the right direction? It is obviously a very...

Committee on Drugs Use: Addiction, Sport and Well-being: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Leavy think more work should be done in this area to help people who are involved at a voluntary level in clubs and organisations?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on improvements to pay and conditions for members of the Permanent Defence Force arising from the €485 million allocation for defence pay in budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60415/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Business Supports (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the business energy upgrade scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50831/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 387. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 846 of 14 October 2025, the action her Department and the HSE are taking in view of the statement of the Chief Operation Officer of St James’s Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 388. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 846 of 14 October 2025, the action her Department and the HSE are taking in view of the statement of the Chief Operation Officer of St James’s Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken by her Department and the HSE to deal with the alarming increase in paediatric TB cases occurring since 2017, with the age-specific incidence rate for children having risen from 0.8 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024, in particular taking in to account that the number of TB cases in children under one year of age in 2024 equalled the total cases...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the action her Department and the HSE are taking to deal with the challenges which the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James’s Hospital is facing, which supports TB diagnosis nationally, is now at full capacity and unable to meet the growing demand for rapid diagnostics, especially for drug-resistant TB; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the action the Department and the HSE are taking in view of the fact that Ireland is not on track to meet WHO End TB Strategy targets, and current resourcing falls short of national guidelines requiring immediate assessment of suspected TB cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the action her Department and the HSE are taking to deal with the rising incidence of TB which increased by over 30% in 2024, with a fourfold rise in MDR-TB cases and a significant increase in paediatric TB; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60529/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the action her Department and the HSE are taking to deal with the capacity issues in dealing with TB cases, in view of the fact that emergency reviews have doubled from 2023 to 2024, which said reviews are used to prevent hospital admissions and to start treatment urgently thus preventing onward transmission; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: In Scotland, the RSV vaccination programme has resulted in a 62% reduction of people in the age group 75 to 79 being admitted to ICU. RSV is a respiratory virus that, despite being very common, can cause serious complications. We have a growing elderly population. The vaccination programme can help keep people out of hospital. Will the Government give serious consideration to introducing...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: If Deputy Timmins wants to come in then I will leave him in at this stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: While people say that we do not have a property tax, in real terms it is taxed when a person passes away, as there is an inheritance tax. We have very low thresholds before a person gets into paying inheritance tax compared with the UK. It is €40,000 for a nephew or niece, which is very low in real terms. It is €400,000 for a child. I may be wrong on the figures but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and for all the work that is being done. I will focus a bit on my own area in Cork and long-term planning there. We have a substantial increase in population in Cork, and the Cork-Kerry region has increased substantially, but we have not had any increase in the number of hospital beds in the last 20 years in real terms. Where are we now in...