Results 44,741-44,760 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the eligibility of a person (details supplied) under the medical card scheme, including when he will issue a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11326/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Jordan for appearing before the committee. I also congratulate Threshold on the work it does, particularly in the specialised area of emergency housing. It is appropriate that organisations and agencies are available to deal with this issue. I disagree with Mr. Jordan, however, regarding the degree to which the rental market can be regulated to any great effect in so far as...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am pleased to see my friends from the Department of Social Protection before the committee and I thank them for their work. There are a couple of matters that need to be addressed. As we have stated on many occasions, the Department of Social Protection was an emergency housing support. It was not a housing body and it should never become a housing body. A former Minister in that...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Yesterday, it was reported that 250,000 vacant properties are available throughout the country. To what extent do they represent sales in transit? To what extent do they represent properties which are being refurbished following tenancies or awaiting new tenancies? Is there another reason such a large number of properties throughout the country are vacant? Is the figure just being tossed...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The witnesses might see themselves as part of the solution, and the jury is still out on this. I do not see the rental market as part of the solution. In fact, I see it as being part of the problem. I do not blame the Irish Property Owners Association; it is because in lieu of what was previously a reliable system of local authority housing the private rental system was purported to be the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Are they going out of the system permanently or are they just going underground?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Surely rents in the years leading up to 2007 were based on a property bubble in which property prices were vastly inflated and incomes had to follow to keep pace with the property market. How does Mr. O'Brien respond to that point? If we are harking back to the peak of the boom and hoping to achieve boom time rents, we will go down the same road we went down the first time around. On the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Incomes have declined dramatically since then.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: -----and rent support.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am delighted to welcome a re-emergence of local authority house-building programmes as a major contributor to alleviating the problems we have. Incidentally, I am delighted the representatives from the Housing Finance Agency are in attendance. I was instrumental in helping facilitate one of the first Housing Finance Agency loans ever approved. The person who got it is still living in the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I asked about local authority loans, which used to exist but now are just a memory.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I know.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: That would be good.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: There should only be one voice.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: There should only be one voice.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Minister.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Minister.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Minister.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Clare Daly, Mary Lou McDonald and Eoin Ó Broin share 15 minutes. Have they decided how they want to share it?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to put incentives in place to reduce youth and long-term unemployment; if schemes require upgrading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11839/16]