Results 51,301-51,320 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Why is it necessary that there generally are two assessments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Does every country have that initial screening and a second one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Why is it necessary for us to associate with a number of countries, albeit small countries? Why do we not associate our assessment system with all countries, thereby getting the benefit of the Single Market, which I have often referred to in this context? The Single Market is supposed to be available throughout all disciplines, not just with regard to travel or something like that, but this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: There are several other areas where we come in under one EU roof. Why is this particular area exclusive and why does it come up again and again? I cannot understand it and I will never understand it if I live to be 100 - I am heading that way at the moment. If we are to gain the benefits and efficiencies that one would expect to gain from being part of a bigger population, there are rules...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: We do, subject to the concerns we raised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Yes, along the lines we discussed.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister of State and the statement and information he has given to the committee. There are two or three things that came to my attention. I am delighted to see the move towards programme budgeting. One of my fetishes has always been comparison with the health boards, which always had programme budgeting. Since that finished we do not seem to be able to go anywhere with...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Bernard Durkan: The Department of Health must liaise with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The two are very interconnected.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Bernard Durkan: The question concerned administrators versus front-line staff.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Bernard Durkan: Unfortunately he cannot be here today but if he was, he certainly would be raising it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Bernard Durkan: I am sorry to interrupt again. Yes, that is true. However, if we are beset by waiting lists, as we have been for many years now, there has to be some reason for it. Maybe it is a shortage of administrators. Maybe administrators are what we need. I do not know, but I do know that we have to overhaul our waiting lists. Otherwise we may as well close the shop altogether and go home. The...
- Other Questions: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the prefab replacement programme to which his Department has committed is on track and meeting the targets on time and in line with the expectations as expressed by the relevant school management authorities at primary and second level throughout the country and in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Other Questions: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: This question is similar to the last and relates to the extent to which the programme to replace prefabs is ongoing throughout the country, especially in County Kildare.
- Other Questions: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his reply. Can I further inquire as to whether particular or specific criteria are to be applied with a view, in the first instance, to taking out the prefabs which are in the worst condition? Is there a plan in place to do that? Will schools whose entire student populations are in prefabs get priority treatment?
- Other Questions: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: To refer to a school the Minister will know well, Newtown school in Enfield, the entire pupil body of that school is in prefab accommodation and has been for some years. Will it be possible to identify such schools with a view to treating them with particular urgency, because the degree to which prefabs can deteriorate over a very short time brings an urgency of its own?
- Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: One speaker, please.
- Topical Issue Matters (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Thomas Pringle - to discuss the staffing shortages in Scoil Mhuire, Creeslough, County Donegal; (2) Deputy Gino Kenny - to discuss the planning issues surrounding Larkfield House in Clondalkin; (3) Deputies Niamh Smyth,...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school building programme already announced is proceeding in line with expectations nationally and throughout County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14457/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)
Bernard Durkan: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects in the course of the school building programme to replace all prefab accommodation at primary and second level within the targeted timescale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14647/18]