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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., temporary arrangement was sought. Right now, the OPW has failed to protect Castletown House. A year has gone by since the situation developed outside the hands of anybody. Nobody was accountable as far as I can see, to the effect that no work has been done. Local residents, rightly in my opinion, put a picket on the gates which were intended to be used. The front gates of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., business or whatever. We have to say "enough is enough" in this kind of situation. While it might be grand to have moral hazard to protect individual cases, we should be very cautious about how far it can go. I remember raising questions in the House time after time about people coming into the country who were not subject to the banking regulations that applied in the past. Mind...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...Education and Skills the efforts being made to ensure that all students in Kill, County Kildare, secure a school place in September 2024, given the number of refusals for primary school children so far for the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30854/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...on the basis they have the right to do this. Unfortunately, in the not so distant past, we found out very quickly we did not have the right to do anything and we were at the bottom of the ladder. Far from being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, as was said many times, we were suddenly one of the most vulnerable because we had an open economy and were dependent on many issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...travel there. In addition, in the context of meeting the demands of a community that is going to grow rapidly, there may not be a suitable site available. I strongly contest the criteria used so far and object to them on the basis of the lack of consultation. That means that we need to upgrade the services in all towns and villages because in many cases, it has been 50 years since that...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue. I have listened to the debate so far. I was intrigued by the tone it took at some stages, which was reminiscent of the debate that took place in the UK before Brexit. It would appear that we had decided we were going to assert ourselves in a way we had not known about before, we were going to go it alone and come up with our own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...the profit element from the private side, and give it to the State side, or vice versa. I am very fond of the Deputy and he is a nice guy and all of that kind of thing, but I would not go that far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...in the level of care provided and reliability and satisfaction for the person to whom the service is provided. All of these are part and parcel of what is needed. I welcome the proposals in as far as they go, but I will need more information about the matters I raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...that the same quality, level and standards apply in both cases. If they do not, we are slipping backward. If they do, we are improving and evolving. The demand is also evolving. There are far more people now in the household at work, which means they cannot attend to even their parents in the way they would have liked. That places responsibility on services such as home support and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Question No. 32 is in the name of the same Deputy. There might be a difficulty with the answer but we did not anticipate being so far advanced at this stage. The Minister is so efficient she is ahead of herself.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...for Education and Skills the efforts in hand to ensure that all students in Kill secure a school place in September 2024, in view of the fact that a number of primary school children have so far been refused a place for the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24113/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...school, thereby creating a further catchment area that will disrupt the entire system if it is allowed to continue. At this stage, there is evidence to show that schools are overflowing. St. Farnan's Post Primary school and new post primary schools in Maynooth are facing difficulties. There are difficulties in Straffan and Clane, as well as in all the other places Minister of State...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...area, a determination of where we need to go and what is required. Along with that, dare I mention school transport? That has a role to play in this. There is not much sense in having places far outside the catchment area , while at the same time trying to determine a catchment area that is adjacent or convenient to a population. It is appropriate and timely that we are having this...

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: ...things we have to do from here on in is prove to the people of this country - the other Europeans have to do this as well - that we are dealing with the situation as it emerges. Across Europe, the farming community, who produce the food for Europe and elsewhere and who are well aware of the reasons the European Union was invented, are now asking questions. They are worried and they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I again thank the Minister and note his warning in that regard. I wonder if it is possible to take any steps to avert, in so far as possible, the possibility of interventions or obstacles that might lead to delays of any nature.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent has the Taoiseach gleaned the conclusion that current measures taken against the Russian invasion of a fellow nation have been effective so far? Are they sufficiently progressive to ensure or bring about a change of mind in respect of the attitude of the Russians? Was there a general consensus that there needed to be a change in emphasis or a different approach in order to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...and we were not welcomed in all the places we went to. It was not so long ago. I was talking with people in the last couple of weeks who quite well remember this being the case, and not too far away, where there were notices on boarding houses to the effect that "Irish, Africans and dogs" were not accepted. This kind of thing prevailed then and people got away with it, but because they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...the cancer strategy or should it be spread over all areas, as is being done? The Government will say there has been a massive increase in the health budget over recent years. We have to ask how far we can go in this direction before we become a threat to ourselves in terms of a spillover or financial crash, which would have to be provided for like everything else. What do the delegates...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...dependent on the rest of society coming to their aid at a time when they most need it. It is about recognising that in many of these cases these are people who have given all of their lives so far in employment in the private and public sectors. They feel that if there is a delay - and there have been delays in the allocation of medical cards - this then becomes something that increases...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (5 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts in hand to ensure that all students in Kill secure a school place in September 2024 given 16 primary school children have so far been refused a place for the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10815/24]