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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Irish Dental Association Strategic Workforce Plan: Irish Dental Association (5 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...because nothing happened for two or three years. How would the witnesses refer to it? I acknowledge that the picture they paint is very serious. The dental service and orthodontics have been dogged for years by a lack of attention. For instance, in respect of orthodontics, it is not unusual to see patients bleeding from their mouths and so on while doing school exams, which is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: The Cost of Climate Action: Discussion (17 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...powdered milk now cannot get it in the future, they will have other problems such as the starvation I mentioned. I can see that we are not going to agree on this but I do not intend on letting any dog run off with a bone on this. I grew up on a farm. I was born and reared on the land and I lived and worked on the land for a good part of my life. I have a fair idea of what it takes to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and wish to be associated with the remarks made by the Cathaoirleach. I will try to deal with the recurring fundamental issues that have dogged the health services for the past number of years. There are underlying reasons but that does not mean that we must not try to tackle them in the shortest possible time. On the main issue of waiting lists and capacity in...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Bernard Durkan: ...cannot shoot. If one applies for a gun licence, one must get a character reference from a reputable person who is not a member of the Garda Síochána - an extraordinary situation. One cannot keep dogs. One cannot hunt. One cannot fish for eel. There is an extraordinary point related to that which greatly troubles me. When the European Commission issued a directive to the effect that...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: My colleague, Deputy McHugh will share time with me. What intrigues me is that the Government seems to be surprised at the situation in which it finds itself. The braver dogs in the street have been barking the economic issues for the last five or six years, not the last couple of weeks. The few unembedded, economic journalists spoke out and got little credit for it. They were accused of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2014)

Bernard Durkan: ...e-voting. I am one of those who believe that voting is an essential part of democracy and should be treated as such. It should not be easy or simple to do, for example, while one is walking a dog and accessing the Internet. It needs careful consideration and democracy will suffer unless we ensure that the system on which it is based continues to be revered. If it is treated in an...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: ...; (8) Deputy Verona Murphy - to discuss the need for investment in Rosslare Europort in preparation for Brexit; (9) Deputies Martin Kenny and Johnny Mythen - to discuss the recent increase in dog theft; (10) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - to discuss the commencement of sections of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act that deal with minimum pricing of alcohol; (11) Deputy Denis Naughten -...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (23 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: ...the memorandum of understanding between the Football Association of Ireland and the Minister with responsibility for sport; (2) Deputy Johnny Mythen - to discuss the recent nationwide increase in dog thefts; (3) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the need to commence the sections of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act dealing with the minimum pricing of alcohol particularly in view of the...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ..., but it is only a temporary market in the life of the householder. People still like the security of a house. In their innocence, they even like having a small garden where they can play with a dog or whatever the case may be. I will pick up on a point made by Deputy Lahart. We have investors who have proposed developments in the middle of existing housing estates. The new...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: ...that the fundamentals were sound and in good order. This proves that was not the case. They have not been good for several years. The Minister can laugh if he wants to, but the fact is that the dogs on the street knew what was happening. Well-placed economists who knew what they were talking about were rubbished. They were ostracised, set aside and dismissed, yet people should have...

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: .... As recompense, we have the privilege of waiting. We need Valium to soothe our shattered nerves, so long have we waited. The Bill refers in passing to various issues now so obvious that the very dogs in the street bark their awareness. The fact seems to have escaped us that, apart from the famous Transport 21, there has been no overall plan. The phrase was trotted out so often during...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)

Bernard Durkan: ...to keep people under 24-7 surveillance and to monitor their movements at all times. It is even possible to detect the activity of those who remove the monitor and hang it on a cat's neck or a dog's paw. As the Minister well knows, in the past with some of these monitors, it was noted there was an acceleration in movement which did not correspond with normal human abilities. The...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...with people in the last couple of weeks who quite well remember this being the case, and not too far away, where there were notices on boarding houses to the effect that "Irish, Africans and dogs" were not accepted. This kind of thing prevailed then and people got away with it, but because they got away with it at the time does not mean it is right. It certainly is not right. Perhaps...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...something like that at any level is wrong and would be detrimental to our society. We must come down on one side or the other and we are either for or against it. There are those who maintain we should continue as we are, half-heartedly, like Lanna Machree's dog, going a bit of the way with one and a bit with the other, going nowhere in particular. We must be clear about this. In...