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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Work Programme 2015: European Commission Representation in Ireland (29 Jan 2015)

Bernard Durkan: The banking union has been referred to. The presumption is - it has gone abroad and has got considerable legs at this stage - that there is no need to repay borrowings on one basis or another. That has become acceptable in general conversation. There are institutions within member states called central banks which govern lending policy in individual member states. Departments of finance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Work Programme 2015: European Commission Representation in Ireland (29 Jan 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Can I get clarification on that, because that is not what I was getting at? What I was saying concerned a central bank in a member state, which oversees lending and borrowing in that state, but whose policy proves to be badly founded and grounded and sets the economy on a downward tangent. Is that country or state absolved? I do not believe it is absolved. If that state has complied with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Work Programme 2015: European Commission Representation in Ireland (29 Jan 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome and thank our MEPs for coming before us and compliment them on their presentation. I will refer to two or three parts relating to energy policy, which is very important for Europe and each member state individually. What is the extent to which the witnesses believe, as MEPs, that Europe is progressing towards self-sufficiency with regard to energy needs, that it is energy secure,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Work Programme 2015: European Commission Representation in Ireland (29 Jan 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I like to mention it occasionally. Very often, more is taken from what people do not say than from what they say. Another point relates to carbon reduction, which is a critical issue that must be faced by Europe and each individual member state. To what extent do the witnesses see in both European and member state policy the move towards carbon reduction without dramatically affecting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I am not a member of the committee, but I have an interest in this issue, like everybody else in the country. We need a thorough evaluation of all of the implications for the future of air transport services from an economic viewpoint in terms of the need for investment, connectivity and the recognition of our island nation status, all of which must be borne in mind in a particular way. I...

Other Questions: Rail Services (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which rail services can be tailored to meet the ongoing travel requirements of commuters with particular reference to identifying how best the rail services in general can meet the demands of medium to middle distance commuters from towns and villages outside the greater Dublin area thereby alleviating road traffic...

Other Questions: Rail Services (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: This question attempts to focus on the need to ensure the maximum availability of rail transport services for commuters both within the greater Dublin area and inter-regionally.

Other Questions: Rail Services (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: In the context of economic revival, what level of forward planning is taking place to ensure services develop to meet the needs of commuters in the greater Dublin area and other cities and centres of population?

Other Questions: Rail Services (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Is consideration being given to improving parking facilities throughout the regions? Motorists in north County Kildare must frequently continue their journey into Dublin city by car because of the inadequate number of parking spaces available at railway stations during the morning rush hour. What is the position regarding the development of a spatial strategy in terms of demographics? To...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Is that what Deputy Higgins wants?

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Do not trivialise it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: It was a good long speech, though.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Legislation is promised to address the issue of the sale of distressed loan books to unregulated financial institutions. What is the progress of that legislation? Will it come before the House and be passed before the summer recess? If not, would it be possible to issue guidelines, which would at least give homeowner-borrowers similar protection to that received by the same original...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I am delighted to hear it.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he is satisfied that any takeover of Aer Lingus will involve adequate protection for national interests such as continued access without restriction to all existing routes and landing provisions at airports worldwide and fundamental to the viability of the airline into the future; if he is satisfied that the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when all arrears in respect of a carer's allowance application will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who applied in May 2014 but whose arrears have only been backdated to September 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4432/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing in respect of a carer's allowance application will take place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4566/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the grounds on which a new rent supplement form is required in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4606/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the weekly amount by which repayment of overpayment in the period January 2013 to May 2014 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (3 Feb 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department monitors the economic impact of energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5003/15]