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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: There are parliamentary party meetings as well. What about the Order of Business?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: The one big advantage in accommodating the parliamentary party meetings is that the members do not go to each other's parliamentary party meetings. They only go to their own.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the visitors for their presentations. There has been a considerable improvement in the administration of passports over the past number of years. I note the demand is greater and it is where a member of the public finds himself or herself in an emergency that we must plan for to a greater extent that we have. Occasionally, a constituent, when everything else is ready for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: It is an issue. Nobody kicks up a row about it, but I cannot understand it. I have been inquiring about this for years. On one occasion somebody cynically asked was I wishing to change it, and "Yes" is the answer. If the professional description is in French as it should be and in Irish as it should be - I have a problem not with the Irish version but with the English version - why do we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: Would the Chairman say that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: If one were in an English-speaking country, such as Canada or Australia, they do not know what a Teachta Dála is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: We are well known but not that well known.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: I ask the Chairman to note that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: In France, the description is of a Member of the House of Deputies or a Member of the Senate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: The description in French in our passports is "Member of Parliament".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: No. If one is going to French-speaking Quebec they know who we are all right but I have not been there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: What is Mr. Nugent's definition of a change of hairstyle? Is it with a different colour, a pink tint?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: Over the years there have been instances of passports lost or stolen and in one or two spectacular cases the Israeli Government acquired - for want of a better description - Irish passports. Have any of those passports ever turned up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: I asked whether the passports that were stolen, sold or misappropriated ever reappeared.

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: There should be, though.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he expects broadband facilities in this jurisdiction to be comparable in the terms of quality speed and availability to the best available globally with a view to ensuring that this economy can compete internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4232/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he and his Department have studied the adequacy of the electricity generating capacity from non-fossil sources to meet this country’s requirements over the next ten to 12 years in the event of 3.5% economic growth rate over the same period facilitating increased employment and investment; the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4694/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 16 January 2014, wherein reduction in rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare resulted in hardship, if, in view of the serious housing shortage for all such persons dependent on rent support in lieu of local authority housing, she will enter into discussions with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Rented Accommodation Provision (30 Jan 2014)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate, arising from an inquiry received from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare requesting that they secure a rent reduction in respect of the private rented property occupied by themselves and their family, whether the acute housing shortage in the area resulting in rent increase has been noted; if, in such...