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

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry for being absent because I manage bilocation - hopefully effectively. I welcome our guests. This has been a long day on this subject and other subjects. On the ongoing administration of health services, we have two bodies, the HSE and the Department of Health, and to my mind the twain shall never meet. In my opinion it does not work that way and it will remain my opinion. I...

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

Bernard Durkan: Why only at the Committee on the Future of Healthcare? Accident and emergency is an urgent issue now, and could be tomorrow again. The purpose of the question was to try to elicit what might be done as a matter of urgency to deal with the problems that existed last year and the year before and will exist next year unless something is done about them this year.

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

Bernard Durkan: How can we achieve that?

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

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry to interrupt again, but how much of that can the HSE deliver in a year? The public and many members here and elsewhere are anxious to ascertain how long it will take. We hear every year that we are getting a step further but all we are doing is chasing after the wagon. Is it possible to identify precisely what is needed at least to hold the problem without all of these...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to be in a position to meet the costs associated with all recent pay agreements while maintaining the principles of the Lansdowne Road and other agreements and remain within budgetary targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3419/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I understand that the Ceann Comhairle has authorised that Deputy Eugene Murphy may deal with Question No. 15.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Deputies Brendan Smith and Mick Barry, who tabled Questions Nos. 16 and 17, respectively, are as láthair.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he and his Department have undertaken any audit in respect of infrastructural requirements such as housing, water, roads and or sewerage treatment facilities requiring urgent investment with a view to determination as to the way such investment might be undertaken as a matter of urgency thereby facilitating the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: There should be one voice.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Unfortunately, the time has expired. I gave as much latitude as I could.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: You will not be able to get the answer, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister will correspond with you, I have no doubt, in that context. Time has now expired. It will be a special note for northsiders.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy has gone way over time.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is way over time.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I am not surprised, but the Deputy will hear me the next time.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Development Plan (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Order, please.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3683/17]