Results 38,861-38,880 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39649/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise their residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39653/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify and update the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39654/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39562/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39651/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39652/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review refusal of a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39655/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the lack of adequate apprenticeships has been identified as an obstacle to economic recovery and access to the jobs market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39645/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and compliment them on their submissions, which were soundly based as always. I have a number of questions to pose. The Lisbon strategy was deemed to have missed its targets, but that was not disclosed or discovered, unfortunately, until almost the end of its period of operation. To what extent has the 2020 strategy been achieved in terms of interim targets thus far?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: We will see. My view on clean, renewable energy is that it will stand the test of time. To what extent is it recognised across Europe that we cannot depend indefinitely on energy supplies of an increasing volume, nature and variety? We cannot depend on that indefinitely. It will not happen. This is especially the case as climate change issues emerge, converge and impact on our European...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I wish to intervene. What you say is true but was there not an obvious deficiency in the infrastructure as it existed at the time? I have been tabling Dáil questions for at least 25 years asking when there would be a fundamental reappraisal of the water requirements in the country, as one piece of that infrastructure. When were we going to have adequate storage, adequate and reliable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Yes, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: It is not true to say that all jobs in the construction sector are low skilled. The construction sector has been upgraded in the past ten years in particular and needs to upgrade more with a much higher skill requirement than what was previously needed. That should be acknowledged.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: To what extent have the European institutions sought to identify those areas most likely to provide jobs in the future, having regard to an economic assessment in the individual member states?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: It is a vital exercise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: We all know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: One question was not answered. I heard the chief executive of a multinational European corporation state at a public gathering that he could not source executives in Europe and thought about relocating to China.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: What was the big issue? Was it the more favourable wage and taxation structure in other countries or something else? Was it a genuine lack of adequate skills? I doubt it was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: We have experience in this country of low to medium skilled jobs relocating to low wage economies, but also to other European jurisdictions. Such jobs have remained in those countries.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Bernard Durkan: It was a mess Fianna Fáil left us.