Results 52,021-52,040 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he continues to support programmes to encourage young persons off the streets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in training in Templemore; when they are expected to take up duty throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22828/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí injured in the course of duty in the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22831/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full extent of the scale and value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in the past five years; if all such properties have been disposed of and the proceeds retained by the State; the status of properties not yet disposed of in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which resources continue to be made available for the pursuit of cold cases, including those of missing persons whose whereabouts have never been confirmed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which modern technology is available to and used by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22834/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22772/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Chairman wish me to stick to ten minutes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming before us this morning. Their information is quite enlightening. I have a number of questions about the two-year training programme, which is regarded as the ideal situation. Does this apply in the United States of America and in other laboratories outside of Ireland, and does the sector here have any control over that? I must mention that I am biased...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Is there any way to compare the quality of the tests in the various laboratories here and in the United States?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I have a short comment. In a previous incarnation, I tabled parliamentary questions on cancer research, the incidence of cancer and its various forms in different regions of Ireland prior to the National Cancer Registry being established. It has done an excellent job and a huge amount of work, but since it was established one can no longer get parliamentary replies on the matter. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I will not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for their attendance and for being so open in the manner in which they have discussed this issue. Incidentally, I have always been a strong supporter of the BreastCheck programme. I was also my party's spokesman for this area many years ago. If the programme us to be successful, it must be efficient, effective and protect itself. Those involved in the programme cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I am trying to separate that issue from the rest of this discussion. I want to isolate it and direct it at the group present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Would a patient ever ask a consultant why a test conducted six months, one year or two years earlier did not show a cancer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: As strange is it may seem, the odd patient comes to us politicians to make a complaint from time to time. I often wonder whether it might be better for the system to respond without prejudice and to talk about arbitration or whatever the case may be. One can achieve quite a lot without massive costs. This is not a stroke against my colleague or anything like that but I have to mention a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Somebody said 99%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: That is good. It is fine but it is not accurate. If a woman happens to be one of the 10%, she will obviously feel aggrieved. Is there anything we can learn or do to try to narrow that any further? We have listened to the witnesses' submissions. Repeated mammogram tests might not be the answer either. It might cause greater stress and so on. Is there any way we can deal with that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I compliment the BreastCheck system for all it has achieved and for the tremendous work that has been achieved in terms of identifying and putting in place the necessary treatment.

Other Questions: Job Creation (24 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new enterprises set up under the aegis of her Department involving indigenous or foreign direct investment in the past twelve months; the quality of the jobs provided; the extent to which it was possible to obtain appropriately qualified staff for such venture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22810/18]