Colm Burke

To ensure that evidence based care in healthcare plays a role in the development of a National Life Sciences Strategy

Embedding metric-driven performance indicators to ensure focus on clinical trial density and speed of access to new medicines, and establishing a permanent public-private National Life Science Council to support the development and delivery of the strategy

Ensuring the National Life Science Strategy embraces and builds upon existing work delivered at a national level—specifically embedding the 2026–2029 Framework Agreement’s stepwise plan for 180-day reimbursement decision timelines, and embracing and implementing the…

Measures in Budget 2027 to support enterprise and employment in Cork region.

Ibec priorities reflected in Budget 2027, including on AI and the National Training Fund, business competitiveness and measures to improve attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investment in areas such as innovation and Research & Development.

To support the development and implementation of policies that maintain and strengthen Ireland’s competitiveness for life sciences manufacturing investment and high-skilled employment

Support for Cork Development Forum's priorities in economic development, including discussion about the government plans for a next generation site and why such a landbank should be developed in Cork to attract future commercial and industrial opportunities

To ensure we rebalance the economy away from our dependence of FDI businesses by scaling domestic businesses

To seek meetings to highlight key health policy areas of interest to Eli Lilly

Showcase the latest expansion to Apple’s Cork Campus and celebrate 45 years of Apple in Ireland. Raise awareness and further understand timelines for delivery of local infrastructure, as well as discuss activities planned for the Irish EU Council presidency.

To raise awareness amongst stakeholders of the importance of policy cohesion and a whole-of-government approach in the development of the National Life Sciences Strategy, to ensure that Ireland has a competitive policy landscape for the life sciences sector into the future.

Political support for the delivery of a next-generation site in Cork to ensure the region continues to attract large-scale, high-value Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in sectors like semiconductors, biopharma, and green energy.

The allocation of multi-annual funding support for the delivery of a next-generation site in Cork to ensure the region continues to attract large-scale, high-value Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in sectors like semiconductors, biopharma, and green energy. Funding can be used to…

Funding for the delivery of flood defences in Cork city and various county towns to ensure homes and businesses are protected from future flood events, including the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme and flood defences in Midleton.

Inform and shape economic development of Cork