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Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
568. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the last time the European Union Pharmaceutical Strategy was discussed at an EPSCO Meeting; if Ireland contributed to that discussion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38789/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
569. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Department of An Taoiseach in relation to formulating a Government position on the European Union Pharmaceutical Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38790/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
570. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to formulating a position on the European Union Pharmaceutical Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38791/22]
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
571. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in relation to formulating a Government position on the European Union Pharmaceutical Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38792/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Telecommunications Infrastructure
Colm Burke
228. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration will be given to using a portion of the funds to the Exchequer to invest in collaboration with the telecoms industry on a shared rural network, including all three operators to address coverage black spots that have occurred in other jurisdictions in the context of the next spectrum auction for the telecoms sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37128/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Energy Prices
Colm Burke
244. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if additional support will be provided to people to support them with the cost of rising electricity and gas, particularly those on social protection payments and pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37805/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Tax Code
Colm Burke
325. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reducing VAT on deep retrofit works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37801/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Tax Code
Colm Burke
326. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to including the cost of VAT under the deep retrofit grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37802/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Public Sector Pay
Colm Burke
338. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether there should be a reversal of the cuts imposed by a Government decision that took place at the same time as the financial emergency measures in the public interest cuts were applied to public sector employees given the review carried out in July 2018 by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Department of Justice in relation to the work undertaken by criminal barristers (details supplied); his plans to address the professional fees of criminal barristers that are at 2002 rates given the 28.5% to 69% cuts introduced by the Government decision that took place at the same time as the FEMPI cuts were applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37035/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Public Sector Pay
Colm Burke
339. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if parity will be restored in respect of payment to criminal barristers in the same way that it has been restored to all other justice stakeholders given the review carried out in July 2018 by the Department of Justice in respect of the work undertaken by criminal barristers and the conclusion in relation to same communicated to his Department that the flexibilities in work practices undertaken by criminal barristers were akin to the flexibilities in work practices by public sector employees and State solicitors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37036/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Public Sector Pay
Colm Burke
340. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will restore parity to the fees payable to criminal barristers in the same way that it has been restored to all other public sector employees given the review carried out in July 2018 by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Department of Justice in respect of the work undertaken by criminal barristers and the conclusion in relation same communicated to his Department that the flexibilities in work practices undertaken by criminal barristers were akin to the flexibilities in work practices by public sector employees and State solicitors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37037/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Colm Burke
366. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the way that her Department plans to engage with RTÉ to explore measures for reducing the State broadcaster’s dependence on Exchequer funding considering it has been increasing in recent years; if her Department will ensure that any liabilities owed to the Exchequer by RTÉ would be financed through the broadcaster’s commercial revenue streams or savings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37806/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Television Licence Fee
Colm Burke
367. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department would be in support of replacing An Post by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as the collection agents of TV licence fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37808/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Colm Burke
642. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if children over the age of 16 years who are in receipt of a disability allowance payment and still attending second level education, are entitled to a back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance; if they will also benefit from the waiving of school bus fares for the 2022/2023 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37799/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Disability Services
Colm Burke
687. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a specialist speech and language therapist will be provided to a child with a diagnosis of ASD (details supplied) in the pre-school setting in order to assist with this child’s educational development; the further measures that will be taken to support their child through their early years in education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37800/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Legal Services Regulation
Colm Burke
720. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice if she will meet with a representative body (details supplied) given the review that was carried out in July 2018 by the Director of Public Prosecutions and her Department in relation to the work undertaken by criminal barristers and its conclusion that was communicated to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that the flexibilities in work practices undertaken by criminal barristers were akin to the flexibilities in work practices by public sector employees and State solicitors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37034/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Health Services
Colm Burke
831. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the drug reimbursement decisions that have been made by the HSE drugs group and executive management team respectively in each of its meetings from January 2018 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37271/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Hospital Staff
Colm Burke
969. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the action that will be taken by his Department and the HSE in respect of the employment of 20 additional clinical nurse specialists to assist those waiting for a neurology outpatient appointment as advocated by Neurological Alliance of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37796/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Hospital Services
Colm Burke
970. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to support eye care services in Cork, particularly to ensure that there is greater capacity for services in Cork to assist those with serious conditions such as glaucoma to have more regular care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37797/22]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
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Hospital Appointments Status
Colm Burke
971. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a glaucoma patient (details supplied) will receive an ophthalmology appointment with a specialist in Cork in the near future, as their sight is rapidly deteriorating and that additional funding will be made available for patients in similar circumstances in Cork, that they might receive more regular treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37798/22]