Results 44,281-44,300 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I support Deputy Ryan's proposal. We have to look at the possibility of emergency legislation, particularly in this area. What format it will take remains to be seen, but if we allow the objections to prevail in respect of how we address the issue, which is a major national issue at present, we are not going to resolve anything at all and it will go on forever. Without impinging on...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before us. What is the best way to encourage the return of the private sector to the construction area? For example, are there builders available now who can be employed directly by the local authorities, on a contract basis, to build houses? I emphasise that this refers to direct build by the local authorities through the private sector. We have done this...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Can that process be shortened? The case being presented to me is that it takes a long time.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: That is a tax on employment.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Paul Murphy was over there himself. He could have influenced it.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Any Minister can take business.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: On a point of order, the impression is being created that there is no representative of the Government present.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry but the information is on a point of order.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: On a point of order, the impression is being created that the Government is not represented at all. A Government is sitting here, and officials are sitting here taking notes. It is totally untrue to make that kind of allegation.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy knows he is wrong.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Really?
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: One voice please. The Deputy has 13 seconds.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Deputy. There are two minutes left in the slot.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Deputy. Deputy Martin Kenny has one minute and 45 seconds and falling.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Martin Kenny, please.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The next slot is in the names of Deputies Catherine Connolly and Seamus Healy who have ten minutes. I presume they are sharing equally.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: We will have one speaker at a time.
- Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The next slot is to be shared by Deputies Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Peadar Tóibín and Dessie Ellis. They have ten minutes in total.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the progress and time schedule for providing primary care centres in County Kildare; when he will meet the full requirement; the extent to which this will ease overcrowding at the hospitals Naas and elsewhere in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8620/16]