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Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State. Next, I call Deputies Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle, who are sharing ten minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is Deputy Harkin sharing her time?

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy following Deputy Harkin has five minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Connolly to speak now, please.

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I congratulate the Minister of State on her new position and responsibility. It is a very serious and senior position with a lot of responsibility and issues that need very urgent attention and results in a short space of time. Right across County Kildare, north and south but particularly in north Kildare, there is huge...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [16765/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [19205/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The spectre of parental alienation still roams across the country and is being used regularly to inflict the maximum amount of punishment on parents and children and continues to be used with increased vigour. I have been promised by the Minister for Justice, who is well-meaning, that she will deliver with regard to a change in regulations to prevent this atrocity from happening. Will the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Make an apology.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am afraid I have to disagree with my colleagues on this particular area. The Minister of Finance has a duty and a job that is strictly laid down in legislation. We can speculate all we like about the precise amount we have available to us at any given time. That may change from year to year and that has always been the case. Yet, it is the responsibility of the Minister to deal with the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What is the emerging evidence behind the scenes as to the eventual impact on this country of pillar 1 and pillar 2? From the evidence of the past 12 months or two years, changes have impacted our budgeting for the future. What can we expect, given we do not have many friends in that area when it is all boiled down, but we have many hostiles, from the United States to the rest of Europe,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This is a serious subject. There are two elements that we need to keep in mind. There is no doubt that the Government’s policy is working but the problem is that it is working too slowly by virtue of a whole series of things that are happening. For instance, there are people living in houses where there was no benefit from selling the house and moving on, and no need to do so....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Doherty for identifying the difference between his views on the subject and mine. He did not say who was right, however. That also has to be evaluated. I would claim that I am right and I know a fair bit about this particular subject, having dealt with it at the coalface in an area that has suffered from a very significant amount of development over the past 20 years. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: You promised to bring me in, Chairman, on climate and the nature element before we conclude. I will not delay the meeting but I want to make a couple of observations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This is an important group of issues, as regards the climate and nature fund, and we all subscribe to and agree with them. There is, however, some indication that there is a lack of scientific evidence as regards some of the areas on which we spend money or refuse to spend money which are of an environmental or climatic nature. We accept that there is climate change and that it is a serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses. I am in the awkward position that I have to be here and next door at the same time. It is very difficult to be in two places. Sometimes it is difficult to be in one place at the correct time. We have had extremely good performance in the delivery of health services in some hospitals and not-so-good performance in others. To what extent has there been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Why is it not clear-cut? Would an obvious trend not be readily visible if in one region there are one or two hospitals performing less up to scratch than in a hospital 100 miles away? There has to be some relevance to the procedures and management in the hospital itself, and the number of patients in the catchment area. There must be something that can be addressed. Why can that not be...