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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: That is modern technology, I do not go along with that at all. I am looking at the old fashioned timepiece over here and in the old days we always went by the clock on the wall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: You will be glad to know it will be brief as always, Chairman. As far as I am concerned the big challenge currently is the budget. The current budgetary allocation is the first in recent years where extra money is available and it is being spent. We welcome that. The question is whether it will suffice. Given that we are in the higher cohort of spending among OECD countries, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Let me go back to my original question, on the issues that attract public attention and upset patients and the general public and which actually demoralise those working at the coalface in the health services. The first is overcrowding in accident and emergency units. Can the HSE put in place troubling-shooting systems that will find out precisely the cause in each case, as it arises?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: May I briefly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I wanted to add a further question, as my other question was slightly gazumped by the Chairman. What has happened to GP services that have made them so unattractive recently compared with 25 years ago? Everyone wanted to be a GP and became successful ones. We are spending far more money on the health services now than we were then. For some unknown reason, we can, if we are lucky, get only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: May I comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I asked my question for a reason and with no disrespect to Mr. O'Brien, I did not get an answer. I am not new to this game and I have been at this a long time. My question remains. If I were to attend an overcrowded accident and emergency department tomorrow morning, could I find out why it is overcrowded? I guarantee I would find out whether patients are bypassing their general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: With no disrespect to my colleague, I am fully aware of that. What I am saying is that 25 years ago, we were able to deal with these issues effectively and we are no longer able to do so. We appear to be muscle-bound in the sense that we are spending more money per capita on health than many other countries in Europe and globally but we are not delivering. As a result, the quality of...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Like others, I am glad to have an opportunity to speak ahead of the Finance Bill which will give statutory effect to the budget of last week. I welcome the positive developments that have taken place over the past five or six years and to recognise the sacrifices that have been made by the Irish people and by many in this House, in particular in regard to the crucial decisions that had to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Given that more than 1,000 gardaí are injured in the course of their duties annually, when will the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2017 come before the House?

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Now I am in a quandary. The Minister of State has a speech, so she is next to contribute. That is the running order.

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State may be in need of some pharmaceutical assistance. I call Deputy Louise O'Reilly.

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Under Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141, this Bill must be referred to the Select Committee on Health. I ask the Deputy to move the motion for referral now.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Organised Crime (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate resources continue to be made available to An Garda Síochána to combat organised crime; if sufficient intelligence, technology or other resources are adequate to make serious inroads on the structures operated by the criminal gangs; if sufficient powers exist to deal adequately with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which extra Garda personnel are likely to be deployed throughout the country in accordance with demographic requirements and crime levels; the extent to which deployment is likely to take place in the next 12 months to address the most serious identifiable shortages throughout the regions; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a working visa will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44416/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which An Garda Síochána has succeeded in disarming criminal gangs, with particular reference to the ongoing feuds between such gangs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate numbers of trainee gardaí are available in Templemore now and over the next two years to meet the requirement of the increase in Garda strength; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44472/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the anticipated increased Garda strength likely to be deployed to stations already in need of an increase in view of crime levels and demographics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44473/17]