Results 53,041-53,060 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the degree to which ongoing training of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, including reserves, is scheduled in the course of the next three years; the extent to which such ongoing training meets international best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which military equipment, including transport, communications and procedures, in the Army continues to be upgraded and improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40314/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that facilities such as advanced training, state-of-the-art technology and specific military equipment is available throughout the Defence Forces with a view to ensuring a competence to deal with national or international security incidents; if he is satisfied that the Defence Forces have adequate liaison with other defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total strength of the Defence Forces, including reserves, Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; the number of women in each branch of the services; the likelihood of recruitment and replacements following retirements now and over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40315/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Strength (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which membership of the local Defence Forces continues to be maintained at a required level; the extent to which ongoing training standards and requirements are met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40317/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces are adequately equipped to deal with emergencies in respect of which they may be called upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40318/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces can be mobilised in the event of natural disasters, including flooding, in view of the preferability of early deployment and the need for the use of specified equipment in such situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40319/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which specialist skills in dealing with security threats remain available to the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Air Corps and the Naval Service continue to co-operate in air and sea rescue missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40320/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which young unemployed persons have been able to join the Defence Forces; if a specific programme exists in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 103. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he expects to be in a position to augment deficiencies in the Defence Forces in the context of a terrorist attack; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Equipment (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Air Corps is adequately equipped to detect and-or intercept activity posing a threat to national security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40324/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for family income supplement in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the relevant forms for a review of a disability allowance entitlement will be furnished to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40165/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their address to the committee. I have some concern about the degree to which the consultation was evenly spread across the institutions throughout Europe. There is obviously an emphasis on regional structures, which do not exist here to the same extent, and for a long time I have thought that maybe there was an intention on somebody's part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I cannot let this matter go without making an important point. In retrospect, we say the European Union enlarged too soon. Let us consider, however, the situation 20 years ago or so and the reunification of Germany. What were the options? Should it have been left hanging loose, floating alone in that region? Should the other countries adjacent to the western Balkans have been left to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister, Ms Magahy and the officials and wish them well in the task they are undertaking. They need all the luck and assistance in the world. The structures that are now emerging are not exactly my first choice because the question that comes up all the time is whether the HSE is the appropriate structure to evenly deliver throughout the country the services that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: We are not doing so bad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: We will get them all right. I have raised the issue of primary care centres before. I am not certain they are capable of delivering the quality, level and extent of community care that are required. I do not know as I have not yet seen them do so. In some of the primary care centres there is not equal participation from the public sector nor equal access. That is not much good to us if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I do not welcome the demotion.