Results 27,021-27,040 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special provision will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3698/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if rent support is available in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3685/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if arrears of rent support will be paid in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3687/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will undertake a review of the refusal of rent support in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if refusal of jobseeker's allowance will be urgently reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if PPS numbers and old insurance numbers are recorded in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum carer's allowance payable in the case of a person providing care for two parents and one neighbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent of reform and-or policy initiatives required to maximise the opportunities for economic recovery in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3654/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which each Government Department continues to maintain good practice in terms of expenditure, in keeping with both the effects of the economic recession and the growing demands of the recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he is satisfied that he will be able to continue to meet the targets set by his Department in the context of spending and reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3703/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which each Government Department has achieved the targets set by way of public expenditure and reform in the past five years; the extent to which this has now become the basis for reward throughout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to be able to maintain compliance with the Lansdowne Road agreement or other pay agreements in the context of the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation, having particular regard to the need to reward those affected by the downturn in the economy in the course of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the growing needs of the recovering economy, if he expects to be in a position to meet infrastructural requirements of the widest possible nature affecting our economic performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan Update (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the scope for reforms throughout the public and private sectors which may still have a role to play in economic performance in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public procurement procedures remain an asset or an obstacle in the context of economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3708/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full extent to date of recruitment throughout the public sector in the context of economic recovery; the expectation in respect of future recruitments throughout the sector by the end of the current year and thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3709/17]

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the extent to which he continues to have discussions with the United Kingdom authorities and his EU colleagues in the context of the proposed UK exit from the European Union; the extent to which the full implications for this island, the UK and the European Union continue to be evaluated; whether any parameters have been...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The question seeks to ascertain the extent to which all the relevant parties in the European Union and the United Kingdom are fully conscious of the implications and the possible consequences of a UK exit from the European Union.

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is there recognition of the possible economic and political implications thereafter - in the widest sense - given that some people seem to celebrate the prospect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their interesting presentations. Going back to this morning's discussion, a medical consultant had previously intoned to me that medical economists were the cause of the problem, and he may not be wrong. I recall a different era when it was fashionable to say that we wanted fewer beds. I remember raising that question during the design stage of a...