Results 44,701-44,720 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 221. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will accommodate the extra preschool year in full in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11129/16]
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome and congratulate our visitors. It is clear that they have a thorough knowledge of the subject matter with which they deal, and with which we all deal every day. They have an understanding of the issues which is exemplary and I congratulate them on their approach. Does Tiglin have approved housing body status? As the Chairman knows, I am not a particular friend of the approved...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: -----because I have always held the view that they were the cause-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: However, I am a strong supporter of the kind of support being provided by Tiglin. The situation with regard to rough sleepers cannot be resolved just by providing an emergency bed for one night at a time. There must be some continuity of care, as Tiglin has proven. Has Tiglin reached a point where it cannot cope with the number of inquiries it receives? Has it assessed and quantified...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Chairman will be shocked to know I agree most entirely with the previous speaker.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: My party is open for membership at the moment.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I disagree, however, with the resolution proposed by Deputy Coppinger. This is where we can do something and have a great deal in common. The Chairman will be equally shocked to know that a number of my constituents live in Tyrrelstown, Ongar and various other places and they come to me on a regular basis. Like every other member, I have a general knowledge of the position. I agree the...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: We deal with them on a one-to-one basis and it works.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: But Chairman-----
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: -----if we are seen to cave in to that and to move away from the pressure created by the venture capitalists, then we have lost before we start. I strongly urge that we keep that in mind. I know what people will say to that. I expect venture capitalists in those sorts of circumstances to recognise that if they have bought properties - under whatever conditions - there are people in situwho...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: We had a sharp exchange.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I want to get back to this again.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I assure the Deputy that it is time for us to make it recognise that it has a responsibility.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Do not forget my proposal when the Minister is here too.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tyrrelstown Residents (19 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I will be reinforcing it then.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is the Deputy sharing time?
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy D'Arcy is present.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I now call on Deputy James Browne, after whom the next speaker from Fianna Fáil will take the following slot.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin. Is the Deputy sharing time?