Results 1-20 of 61 for revert speaker:Bernard Durkan

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...authority, the public and the OPW had access for the past 15 years or so. I ask that this access be restored under an interim agreement or some other agreement because it is important that we do not revert to the Lime Avenue entrance, which was valid 200 years ago when Castletown House was built. It was the obvious place and where all the traffic went at that time. Suggesting that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (25 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...and is growing. Efforts to alleviate the traffic situation are continuing but that is not the total solution. To my mind, a solution, and I have suggested this to all involved, involves reverting to the situation that prevailed before the Mexican stand-off in early September and to arrange for a temporary procedure whereby access is guaranteed as it was before until such time as an...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...what extent has anybody in authority investigated the manner in which it works? We all understand how it works - they have to project ahead and when the shock is coming, they hedge - but when they revert, it is not so clear. There is always the question among both commercial and domestic consumers that somebody out there is hiding something from them and that it is impacting on them....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Department is reverting to the use of PPS numbers as a patient identifier. That extends to all areas, I presume.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (2 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number and value of unclaimed prizes from the national lottery in each of the past six years to date; the degree to which such unclaimed prizes revert to the Exchequer and-or to the lottery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10782/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What is the ultimate conclusion for those mortgage-to-rent properties? After a given number of years, will the property revert to the bank or some other institution? Has that been envisaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will it revert to iCare or some other body that intervenes on behalf of the borrower?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (1 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Finance the average length of time taken by the Revenue Commissioners to revert to customers via the online inquiry system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...if he will consider changes in the local authority housing loan and Rebuilding Ireland loan scheme with a view to improved rapidity to the processing of loans and a recognition of the need to revert to procedures associated with the Housing Act 1966 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55420/21]

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...deliver it, but it was not. It was unfortunate that we were coming out of a financial crash that left the place like a desert. I am not blaming anybody for it. It just happened. We had to deal with it as we saw fit. I will revert to the situation that prevailed before. Monitoring of the issue is important. Tweaking of the issue in response to that monitoring is equally important....

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I know. That is reassuring but it does not solve the problem, unfortunately. I will revert to a couple of things that need to be looked at. First, it is proposed to revise the income thresholds and ceilings for qualification for what I call a local authority house. It is long past the time for that. For example, in my constituency of Kildare North, €37,500 is the upper limit...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (20 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...are not here, with the permission of the House we will move on to the next matter and someone might make contact with the Minister's Department while we do so. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will revert to the two matters we have passed over and I ask that someone make contact with the Deputy and the Minister in the interim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...area but it is hugely important from here on in that those who assess the viability of a project, particularly when the restrictions are lifted, know what they are at and that it does not always revert back to one person or to one or two people making a decision that impacts on the lives of those who have been in the particular business over a long number of years. These people have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (28 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...done on the issue. I anticipate the work that is still required over the next six months or so and recognise that when the construction work is completed on the boys' school, it will be able to revert to the original access, subject to any agreements that might emerge in the meantime.

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, for questions and answers on Covid-19. The Minister has ten minutes. Fianna Fáil will have 15 minutes, as will Sinn Féin. We then revert to ten minute slots for everybody.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...list is half a mile long this year, it will be two miles long next year because we will have not shortened it. The only way to deal with that is to attack it from all ends together. If that means reverting to the treatment purchase scheme or the private sector, we need to deal with it. There is no good talking about it. I recently came across a case where the patient was due to come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ..., but I should remind everyone that I was a member of the special health committee that eventually developed Sláintecare. One of the points that I made time and again was about the need to revert to original structures where there was local accountability and, as staff throughout the health services have indicated to me for many years, they got more satisfaction and were more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...and the top down, we will not be able to provide a service that meets the requirements of the people of this country or provide a reliable, safe, available and cost-effective service. I want to revert to cost-effectiveness briefly. Cost-effectiveness comes in many shapes and forms. It comes in the administration of the services in general, the administration of purchasing and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...which his Department may examine a suitable process to encourage the provision of affordable local authority housing by way of a 25 or 30 year lease, at which point properties so constructed would revert to the ownership of local authorities, thus avoiding the need for such expenditure to appear on the national balance sheet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49181/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...the committee why what Mr. Hennessy said is not correct. The existence of the 2013 Act is a separate issue. When the HSE has achieved best practice in pricing and efficacy in Europe, we can then revert to the Act.