Results 41,021-41,040 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which overcrowding at the accident and emergency department at Naas General Hospital in County Kildare has been alleviated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15147/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the remaining phases of Naas General Hospital in County Kildare, with particular reference to the need to ensure early provision of the promised extra facilities; the extent to which extra bed accommodation might be identified and provided for in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15148/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of nurses, junior doctors and consultants, in various disciplines, has fluctuated in the past eight years, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15149/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Application Refusals (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason one of the children of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 does not qualify for an Irish passport, while the child's parents and siblings are all Irish passport holders, in view of the fact that they were born here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15121/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome Professor Todd and thank her for her paper. She points out a number of things that we have expressed concerns about previously. First, and most important, if it proceeded as indicated and if Britain were to leave the Union, we would have a diminution of North-South contacts and, at very best, obstacles would appear in the contacts that have already been set up, such as Waterways...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I wonder if John Donne foresaw what was going to happen in the future when he wrote:No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less... What could he have been thinking about?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Time is getting very scarce.
- Other Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Question No. 174 is in the name of Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, but the Deputy is not present.
- Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Anthony Lawlor.
- Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I call on the Minister, white coat or not.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is out of time.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I ask the Deputy to resume his seat and let the Minister reply. Deputy Wallace is out of order.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister to reply.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy will withdraw that remark.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy must withdraw that remark or I will adjourn the House.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry; it is not the Deputy's prerogative to disrupt this House. We have heard those allegations before.
- Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I propose to report the matter to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I call the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, to continue with his reply and ask that he do so in the shortest possible time.
- Topical Issue Matters (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - concerns regarding the phased closure of Gaelcholáiste Chineál Eoghain, Buncrana, County Donegal; (2) Deputy Anthony Lawlor - the appointment of valuation arbitrators and the resulting...
- Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The building control Bill is important legislation which has been promised for some time. Is it likely to come before the House for Second Stage before the summer recess? Given the urgency of encouraging more apprenticeships, when will the apprenticeship Bill appear before the House also?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his colleagues at European Union and United Nations level continue to focus on the activities of Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, with particular reference to the degree to which the principles of democracy continue to be ignored and the extent to which arbitrary executions, the persecution of...