Results 32,681-32,700 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: When is it proposed to introduce the Oireachtas (ministerial and parliamentary offices) Bill, which will implement changes to party leaders' allowances and minor amendments to other allowances? Has this promised legislation been discussed by the Cabinet, have the heads been approved and when is it likely to come before the House? Similarly, another piece of legislation is to commemorate...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: When is the Bill likely to come before the House and have the heads been discussed?
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Will it go before a committee prior to the heads being discussed?
- Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: As I said previously, it is very regrettable that alterations have to be made to the eligibility criteria for medical cards for people over 70. However, the other side of that coin is the fact that more people will have medical cards and GP-visit cards at the end of this year than currently hold them because more people are coming into the marketplace all of the time and provision must be...
- Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: The people in this country must recognise that there are no easy options. The country continues to be in a precarious situation. At the best of times, it was a difficult situation while at the worst of times, we could have fallen over the cliff. We are very lucky to have political parties in this country that were prepared to take responsibility for running the country at this difficult...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has received confirmation from the lending institutions as to their ability and willingness to meet the credit requirements of the business and commercial sectors with particular reference to the small and medium sized enterprises; if he has had discussions with all the stakeholders with a view to a substantial improvement in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eurozone Crisis (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance his objectives in the course of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU with particular reference to the need to convince his EU colleagues and institutions regarding the importance of their need to recognise the economic sacrifices made by the Irish people arising from the consequences of the financial bailout which he inherited from his predecessors and the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review entitlement to invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the recent refusal of their application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14395/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears of jobseeker's allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the amount of arrears that will issue for the time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14406/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which wild trout and salmon stocks are encouraged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14596/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Youth Guarantee and Ireland: Discussion (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: I remember it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Youth Guarantee and Ireland: Discussion (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: I congratulate the delegates on their presentations. This is probably the most important presentation we have heard in recent times because youth unemployment is an important and sensitive issue. Youth are impressed by what they see around them. In terms of a determination of what is likely to happen and what has happened, they have a short perception of history. Montgomery said in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Youth Guarantee and Ireland: Discussion (21 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: If there is an opportunity of having a further extension of the meeting, I would greatly appreciate it.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: We did not.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: I feel neglected already.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Have the heads of the employment permits Bill which has been promised been approved by the Cabinet? When is the Bill likely to be brought before the House? Have the heads of the medical capacity Bill, otherwise known as the assisted decision making capacity Bill, an important Bill, been approved or when is it likely that they will be approved? When will the Bill be brought before the House?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (26 Mar 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the steps taken to date in the context of Common Agricultural Policy reform are adequate to ensure the future development and growth of agriculture here and throughout Europe with particular reference to the retention of family farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14672/13]