Colm Burke

Seeking a reversal in the decision to cut the Rehabilitative Training Allowance

Awareness of the need to maintain specialist respite and holiday services (at Cuisle) for people with complex disability, including those living with Huntington’s Disease, who cannot avail of hotel respite breaks. Throughout Ireland people living with complex conditions and…

To address the crisis in recruitment and retention of our medical workforce

1) to ensure the definition of patient safety incident excludes adverse events that are not the result of a patient safety incidents 2) to ensure mandatory reporting of patient safety events applies to providers and not individual practitioners who are already subject to…

For public representatives to attend the briefing session and become more informed and perhaps take into account findings in future assessing of the criteria for orphan drugs to be reframed to take into account the wellbeing and welfare costs of those living with IRDs.

Removal of healthcare assistant role from the Ineligible Categories of Employment for Employment Permits List on a controlled basis

To pursue better outcomes for unemployed people and others of working age from Budget 2020. In particular to ensure that there is a better understanding of the role and interaction between adequate income, supportive employment services, good activation programmes, access to…

Healthcare Assistants on the Critical Skills List::A pool of potential candidates to employ from

To secure more inclusive, constructive and well resourced social protection, education and training and employment policies and outcomes.

Funding for a project in Cork

To inform and appraise legislators on the potentially draconian unforeseen and unintended consequences of the proposed legislation as initially drafted and the impact it could have on the ability to practice of qualified medical herbalists & others in the complimentary…

Attendance at an event presenting the Medicines for Ireland Manifesto 2019

To ensure that cattle price returns are in line with the EU/UK average and to ensure that farmers get a fair price for their cattle to ensure a income as they are encountering severe income difficulties as a result of the falling prices.::A comprehensive package of market…

In view of the vital national interest for Ireland, we are requesting that the Taoiseach would immediately reiterate to President Junker our strongest objection to any EU/Mercosur deal which would damage the beef and livestock sector and make it clear that Ireland would not be…

Press release to inform of SWAI success working with Gardai to deliver 20 year jail sentence to serial rapist despite 20% decrease in amount of workers wanting to engage with Gardai due to the law.