Very productive meeting with Minister
https://nitter.cz/SimonHarrisTD
, Cllr
https://nitter.cz/liammaddenfg
, Kevin Creedon from Sterling Pharma Solutions Ringaskiddy and Valerie Cowman + Niamh Gaine from Cork ETB to discuss making further apprenticeship places available. 🧑🏭👩🏭
We have made progress, including €3.2 million this week announced for further training places in Cork but there is more to do. 👷👷♀️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1735367583073792099#m
[2023-12-14 18:34 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Harassment of student radiographers and radiation therapists is occurring on placement. Male patients are the modal perpetrators; most incidents go unreported, and students need support reporting harassment. Read our collaborative work here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R7JERIYZBPDUPUGSFRUZ/full?target=10.1080/0142159X.2023.2290464
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/markmcentee/status/1735261458915549487#m
[2023-12-14 11:32 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Told @baysontheroad it is of utmost importance that the members of the @UN General Assembly realise if @UNRWA collapses in #Gaza, the Palestinian community will feel this ad the last betrayal of the International Community.
@TalktoAlJazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/UNLazzarini/status/1735036105878069316#m
[2023-12-13 20:36 UTC]
7,500 people have a Stroke each year in Ireland. Presentation at Health Committee by
https://nitter.cz/Irishheart_ie
and
https://nitter.cz/CroiHeartStroke
on the challenges we face
https://nitter.cz/HSELive
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1734881312333615274#m
[2023-12-13 10:21 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Delighted that the Social Welfare Bill passed final stages in Seanad this evening. The Bill provides for:
✅Increases to weekly pension, carers & disability payments from January
✅Pension Contributions for Long Term Carers
✅New flexible Pension Age
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/HHumphreysFG/status/1734656097410314576#m
[2023-12-12 19:26 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Buried in today's earnings stats from @CSOIreland.
25-29 year olds enjoyed the highest earnings growth over the past decade, at 38%. All other age groups were very similar over the period at around 30%.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/danobrien20/status/1734617949158170677#m
[2023-12-12 16:55 UTC]
Recent visit to New Children’s Hospital to see the progress on the project. It is now expected to be completed 0ct 2024 with commissioning taking a further 6 months
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1734561482547822730#m
[2023-12-12 13:10 UTC]
20,000 deaths in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Gaza
is the figure which will be reached shortly. In 2009 I visited there after 1,440 were killed. Nothing has changed. Time for International Community to stop slaughter of so many innocent people
https://youtu.be/ObZpHeCVY9Q?feature=shared
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1734363632174059684#m
[2023-12-12 00:04 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: “The destruction in the Gaza Strip is greater than the destruction in Germany during World War II.”
European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs @JosepBorrellF
EU Leaders meet this Thursday. Will they shrug and wring their hands or will they act?
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/NoonanJoe/status/1734287678588264850#m
[2023-12-11 19:02 UTC]
Positive news that an additional €3.2m in funding will be provided for
https://nitter.cz/MTU_ie
Cork to respond to the growing demand for apprenticeships in the higher education sector.
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/40476-ministers-harris-and-collins-announce-17-million-to-expand-apprenticeships-across-higher-education/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1734276747237986679#m
[2023-12-11 18:19 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: #Gaza’s health system is on its knees and collapsing.
The @WHO Executive Board Members are discussing a resolution to protect the health of the people in the occupied Palestinian territory.
My full remarks: https://bit.ly/4agZyFO #EBSpecial
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/DrTedros/status/1733807522689982815#m
[2023-12-10 11:15 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: On this day 25 years ago, John Hume and David Trimble were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to find a peaceful solution in the form of the Good Friday Agreement.
When announced the Norwegian Nobel Committee said... [1/4]
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/humefoundation/status/1733832760848953771#m
[2023-12-10 12:55 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Our staff in #Gaza take their children to work so they know they are safe, or can die together.
133 @UNRWA colleagues have been confirmed killed in bombardments, most with their families.
The situation of civilians in #Gaza is untenable, we are reaching a point of no return.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/UNRWA/status/1733519624484925873#m
[2023-12-09 16:11 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Another wave of displacement is underway, and a humanitarian catastrophe around the corner.
Thousands of Palestinians have moved into an ever shrinking space in Rafah, desperate to find food, water, shelter- pleading for advice on where to find safety.
Nowhere in #Gaza is safe.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/UNRWA/status/1733014721207357779#m
[2023-12-08 06:44 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Irrespective of the outcome of the case, it’s great to live in a country in which the courts and the outcome of their deliberations are respected. No longer to be taken for granted in some democracies.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/12/08/supreme-court-rules-new-system-for-appointing-judges-is-constitutional/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/BobbyMcDonagh1/status/1733097584636428533#m
[2023-12-08 12:13 UTC]
The population of Cork is increasing and we need the health infrastructure to match it. 🏥
I raised the need for urgent progress on the Elective Hospital for Cork with Minister Donnelly.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1732792603219804259#m
[2023-12-07 16:02 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: #Dáil Topical Issue 1: Deputy Colm Burke TD @ColmBurkeTD - To the Minister for Education: To discuss the current treatment of home tutors as being self-employed. https://bit.ly/2wRX0Aj #SeeForYourself
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/OireachtasNews/status/1732328363870531817#m
[2023-12-06 09:17 UTC]
Cutting college fees and re-introduction of postgraduate supports very welcome decision
<p>
https://nitter.cz/SimonHarrisTD/status/1732059395050107357#m
</p>
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1732065707980886159#m
[2023-12-05 15:53 UTC]
CSO census 2022 figure:
264,000 people at work in Cork up 15% on previous 2016 census
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ColmBurkeTD/status/1732048863576408300#m
[2023-12-05 14:46 UTC]
RT by @ColmBurkeTD: Sinn Féin's motion is nothing more than a political stunt.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/FineGael/status/1731393496353788104#m
[2023-12-03 19:22 UTC]
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