Results 48,941-48,960 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: We are all in the European Union and so it applies right across Europe. Why are we not included in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I am not going to interrupt again, but that is not acceptable. I want to repeat that we are all governed by European standards at the present time. We are part of a single market, the much-vaulted market that we are reminded of again and again, and there are huge benefits from it. It is a huge market of some 500 million people. We have been talking about small countries having individuals...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding of Orphan Drugs: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for giving their time to come before us this morning. The drugs require Government, ministerial and HSE approval and so on. On the drugs which were referred to, what do the witnesses envisage as the shortest, quickest route that would short-circuit that process for drugs in the future? Each time the question arises, we go through the same process we discussed earlier....
- Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak for a few minutes about this review. It is timely to have a look back and a look forward. We need to look back on the journey we have travelled over the past six or seven years or more and, on the basis of our performance, look forward as to how we see our society developing in the future. There are vast differences in this regard. Seven or eight...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: That is not true.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Any such Deputy should resign.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I have been here longer than the Deputy and everybody else.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: How stands the amendment?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 10, 16 and 19 will be discussed together.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: How stands the amendment?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 11, 12 and 15 are related and may be discussed together.
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Amendment No. 2, in the name of Deputy Cullinane, arises out of committee proceedings.
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Amendment No. 3 is also in the name of Deputy Cullinane. We are getting good mileage here now. This amendment also arises out of committee proceedings.
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Is the amendment being pressed?
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Amendment No. 4, in the name of Deputy Bríd Smith, is out of order because it does not arise out of committee proceedings.
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed?
- National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Very close. So close I could not believe it.