Results 47,041-47,060 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which international relief is accessing the various sensitive areas in Syria; if a greater degree of co-ordination and co-operation is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the UN and EU can co-ordinate their efforts in respect of the refugee crisis arising from various conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the top ten flash points globally with the most serious abuses of human life, starvation, war and famine continue to be identified; if enhanced UN or global aid operations are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community has responded to the various natural disasters over the past five years such as earthquakes and tsunami; if all commitments entered into initially have been honoured in respect of locations such as Haiti; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3520/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Reform (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 179. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration has been given to restructuring of the UN with a view to enhancing its capacity to intervene and create safe havens in areas of conflict thereby minimising loss of life, torture and abuse of human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the activities of Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab are being contained by the international community or the African Union; if the release of girls and women kidnapped over the past number of years continues to be pursued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3523/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia continue to receive co-operation and support from the European Union; the extent to which Ireland's trade with such countries can be enhanced post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3524/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he, in conjunction with his EU colleagues, can continue to combat the rise of ISIS in the Middle East; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the European Union remains committed to the principle of unity of purpose in respect of economic, monetary, political and social institutions notwithstanding the emergence of extreme political viewpoints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3339/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Minister for Health when the required orthopaedic surgery for scoliosis will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3285/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if required home help will be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied); when same may be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3337/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which her Department has examined new markets both inside and outside the European Union for Irish products in order to compensate for the consequences of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3522/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress in respect of any other transatlantic trade agreements with the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3527/17]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Dr. Turner for his submission. I apologise for being absent at the beginning due to parking difficulty. I have the submission in front of me. A consultant friend of mine has identified - according to himself, anyway - that medical economics is public enemy No. 1 insofar as the delivery of health services is concerned. He cites the extent to which medical economists have been in...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: It was just a reaction out there.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: How do hospital services, and medicine generally, in other European countries maintain their quotas of medical professionals? They do not seem have a problem recruiting or holding on to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their interesting presentations. Going back to this morning's discussion, a medical consultant had previously intoned to me that medical economists were the cause of the problem, and he may not be wrong. I recall a different era when it was fashionable to say that we wanted fewer beds. I remember raising that question during the design stage of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What about the concept of a larger ward where skeleton staff, for want of a better word-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I remember being in Jervis Street Hospital in 1972 when the fire broke out in Noyek's and patients were brought in to the emergency department. The wards were very big at the time with perhaps 50 patients. I do not suggest that as a resolution but it would be better than having patients in a corridor or anywhere else. At the same time such patients would be under observation because one...