Results 44,441-44,460 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: One voice, please.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Can we have one voice, please?
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The next slot goes to AAA-PBP. I understand Deputies Mick Barry and Gino Kelly are sharing time.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The next slot is for Independents 4 Change. I call Deputies Tommy Broughan and Seamus Healy, whom I understand are sharing. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Independent Deputies Shane Ross, Denis Naughten and Finian McGrath will share time of five minutes each.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Behaviour please, Deputies.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Honohan for coming before the committee and giving his views. I am becoming a little concerned and confused as time passes. While modular housing may not be the answer in many cases, in a crisis one must be guided and bound by the urgency of that crisis and the extent to which we can continue to have families forced out of their homes or living in unsuitable accommodation and...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before us and for imparting their wisdom. I would agree in general with Mr. Sweetman that the intervention can often create the opposite effect to the one desired in some of these cases. I know from experience the way the process works. One of the points that has been made repeatedly is that developers cannot build because it is not profitable. In other...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Chairman, just a quick query.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Can we cut to the chase on this issue about repossessions and the sale of loan books to unregulated third parties? What is Mr. Sweetman's opinion? Deputy Coppinger, correctly in my view, raised the issue as well. To give some degree of assurance to the people in their houses who are under threat, is it not desirable to assume that a regime can prevail whereby the purchaser of the loan...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Sorry about that, Chairman.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Professor P. J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Professor Drudy for attending. I agree with many of the things he has just stated because, as we all know, we have discussed this issue for the past couple of weeks. However, I do not agree in respect of changing over our system to a reliance on rental, whether private or public. The reason I do not is because when that idea was first mooted ten or 15 years ago, and there was a...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Mercy Law Resource Centre (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: This is a subject matter in which I have an interest. Ironically and surprisingly, I am not all that convinced that the placing of a constitutional right into the Constitution is of great assistance. If we, as legislators, are doing our job adequately and reflecting the needs of the communities we represent, it should not be necessary to place such a provision in the Constitution. I have...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Mercy Law Resource Centre (10 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: A constitution is supposed to lay down basic fundamentals or cornerstones which protect the rights of the people in all instances. I do not think it is preferable for it to be that way in this case. One tends to use the Constitution as a means of providing legislation. I do not think that is the right way to go about it. It is far better to produce the legislation in line with the ongoing...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I have a number of questions for the witnesses. In regard to the Dún Laoghaire project, I presume that is off Government balance sheet?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: NAMA purchases the properties and leases them through the local authority.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is it the local authority or an approved housing body involved?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is there an obligation on NAMA to inquire as to the likely future use of a property following on disposal? In other words, would it not be wise and in the interests of NAMA and the taxpayer for NAMA to inquire as to what is likely to happen to a property, be that houses already built or potential development land, including, for example, whether a buyer intends to hold onto the property...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Does NAMA not have a different obligation? Does it not have a responsibility to the State that a normal open market seller does not have? For example, NAMA does not have to accept the highest bidder. If the purchaser wanted to go on holidays on the basis of his profits over the next 20 years, NAMA does not have to accept that given that there is a requirement, over which NAMA has some...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: What about the cost of building?