Results 39,161-39,180 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (12 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be available for the provision of 1916 memorials in local communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43402/14]
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important social legislation which follows the budget every year. It is a good time to review progress from where we were four or five years ago. I compliment the Minister for Social Protection on her efforts. I congratulate the Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, on his elevation and I wish...
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: -----but that €1 billion has been spent about ten times by now.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: In actual fact, it applies to you as well because you get the same salary that I do.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, but for the benefit of those who have not been in this House for too long, a bit of education might go a long way.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The Member sitting opposite has the very same salary as me. It is an interesting thing. They seem to be operating-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: This is the old tactic coming from that quarter. They refuse to listen to any reason at all except their own.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Some €1 billion is allegedly available to deal with the provision of water and all the other things that have to be done in this country. It has been suggested that it should be released to everybody to buy the next election at any cost, even if it ruins the country. That is what it means. This €1 billion has been spent approximately five times by the party opposite by now....
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: If necessary, I can go into great detail about the glib old remark that keeps being trotted out all the time to the effect that the money is there but it is not being taken from the right people. I can do that with anybody in any forum anywhere. I would be delighted to entertain those who think otherwise.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The public has a right to know-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: -----what is intended for them at the end of the day.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Those who are attempting at this stage to go out and buy the next election on the basis of money that does not exist have another think coming to them. We have heard all the old remarks about bondholders and all the various ways of doing this. If there were any other ways, they would have been found by now. If the Deputy opposite has found another way to do this, he should tell us about it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I would be delighted to know more about the people the Deputy thinks have resources he can get at, to be distributed among the people as he sees fit.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I want to say one last thing. I do not mind being interrupted.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I regard that kind of interruption as the usual facetious, obnoxious interruption that has no basis at all.
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: There were other issues last night that Sinn Féin could have addressed, but it did not do so. We will not go there. Careful management of this country is now required. I remind the House and especially the sole Deputy sitting on the Opposition benches that when the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, left office in 1997, the books were balanced and everything on the record was in order....
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 15. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which it is intended to participate with other European countries engaged in peacekeeping-peace enforcement throughout the EU and-or environs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43236/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 31. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the strength of the Defence Forces continues to be maintained and-or increased; the degree to which gender balance continues to be observed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43237/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Applications (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when child benefit will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43632/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (13 Nov 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of one-parent family payment payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43633/14]