Results 57,361-57,380 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: On a point of order, this is a debate on a Supplementary Estimate. It is not the same as an ordinary committee meeting. It is normal procedure to alternate between Government and Opposition when offering. Otherwise I will have to vacate, because with the best will in the world, I do not have all day to sit here listening to the wisdom of my colleagues.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: Soon.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: I wish to repeat the point that the normal procedure in a debate of this nature is for discussions to alternate between Government and Opposition. Otherwise there is no sense in some of the rest of us coming in until the Opposition is finished. I could come back tomorrow. If the Chair gives me notice I will be quite happy to do that. I want to draw attention to some of the fallacies in...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: Unlike everybody else, I will not hog the show for the whole day.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: By the same token, we all need to be clear about the difference between the current and capital budget. Some projects are more advanced than others, the result of which is that demands will not be made for cheques to be written at a given time. This is not new; it has been going on forever. It is part and parcel of the running of a service. I have listened to every debate very carefully...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: -----that go along with the privileges of the House.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: I know. I have been sitting here listening to the debate for three-quarters of an hour.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: Deputy Donnelley's rant is permanent.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: I appealed to the Chairman before and he did not do anything about it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: There is more to do.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019) Bernard Durkan: Waiting lists in general have consumed much of our time. How can the waiting lists be dealt with? It is not rocket science. If we have a waiting list of 1,000, we should be able to figure out how long it will take to deal with it. This is where the planning comes in. Where are the deficiencies that prevent us dealing with that waiting list now? If we cannot deal with that waiting list...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects Funding (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 6. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which the support and services provided by his Department have been most regularly sought by communities nationwide; his views on whether adequate interaction takes place at present; if changes are envisaged which may broaden the appeal and availability and consequently further improve community involvement; and if he...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects Funding (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which local communities have ready access to the kind of funding which they see as being fundamental to their needs and whether it might be possible to improve the existing situation or if it is working satisfactorily.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects Funding (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply and I note the expansion of the various programmes. For example, where conditional expenditure, matching expenditure or some proportion of expenditure is expected by the body or group which has applied, such conditions sometimes put them in a difficult position. It may be virtually a charity and dependent entirely on what it gets either by...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects Funding (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I am aware of one or two of them as well. It is because of interaction with them that I discovered it might be possible to ease the sharp corners that exist in a way that would be beneficial to both the Department and themselves. Following on the Minister's comments, I certainly would be prepared to go back and interact with them and try to improve the situation.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: When is the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill it likely to come before the House, and will it happen in this session?
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Order, please.
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Road Safety Data (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Order, please. We cannot have that debate. Please allow the Minister to conclude.
- Scouting Ireland: Statements: Drugs Dealing (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The order of appearance of the next two Topical Issue matters, Nos. 3 and 4, by agreement with the Ministers and the Deputies, has been reversed.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Budgets (5 Dec 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 36. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding made available in support of community and rural development programmes in the past 12 months; his plans for further investment in the area in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50614/19]