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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the ability of the Defence Forces to meet all emergencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3678/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions Data (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces serving overseas in various locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3679/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Gender Balance (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 64. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which women continue to be attracted to all branches of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3684/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 114. To ask the Minister for Health when the freestyle libre will be available on the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3543/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to note the Department is engaging with counterparts in the UK. What is the degree to which the Department has identified the main areas of potential threat after Brexit? Have they all been covered and are there areas not mentioned? A so-called walk away scenario has been mentioned across the water on more than one occasion but that is that country's choice. We certainly did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Has Mr. O'Connor probed the issue with them?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Are there any other speakers?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: For clarification, the Ceann Comhairle has ordered that the debate be adjourned when the number of speakers has been exhausted.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: It will be whenever it comes back to the floor again.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I suspect there will be one opportunity, at least, but that is a matter for the Ceann Comhairle

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I will go back to what the Ceann Comhairle said, which is that when the number of speakers has been exhausted the debate adjourns. I understand him to refer to speakers who have not spoken, but intend to speak and are in the House.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Has Deputy McGrath spoken?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Is it Deputy McGrath's intention to speak?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Does Deputy McGrath wish to speak now and is he available to speak now? If so, he should remember that over the years, the order of the House generally has been that if a person intends to speak, is present at the debate at the appropriate time and does not speak, he or she concedes.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I am going to suspend.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Two things can happen. I can adjourn the House for 15 minutes to get the direction of the Ceann Comhairle and would be glad to do so. My own interpretation is that the Ceann Comhairle said the debate is to adjourn tonight when all the speakers are exhausted. I do not mean exhausted in the physical sense, but rather when they have exhausted what they want to say. I am willing to accept that...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: To clarify, the Ceann Comhairle has already made an order. In accordance with the order of the House, the debate adjourns and a concluding speech, because it relates to statements, is not appropriate in those circumstances. The Minister of State may speak in the normal way but should recognise that in the event of the debate coming back into the House, there may be further speeches.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle also clarified that. We have no way of determining what the Business Committee might come up with in the next week. It may come up with another opportunity and it may not. That is something over which we have no control. The only thing we have control over is that the debate adjourns, which clearly says the debate is open-ended. There could be speeches later and there...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I do not want to spend the whole evening debating the potential of the debate now, if I can help it.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Bernard Durkan: No. I will be-----