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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My query is about the information that is updated every six hours. Could it be updated every three hours? What would be the benefits of an update every three hours? I suspect that they would be considerable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I accept that, but my question remains. There is an update every six hours. The problems of reinterpretation or new interpretations of regulations or recognition-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: -----every six hours. Can the system be improved upon by updating it every three hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: We can point out to all other countries that it is helpful to have accurate and reliable updates. Incidentally, the opening statement Ms Canavan circulated is 17 pages long. There is a lot of information contained in that document, yet it does not contain all the minutiae that are both available and necessary. My broader point is that, for everyone concerned, the document will eliminate a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to the meeting on this very important subject. I have a number of questions. Is the Minister satisfied that the Mulvey agreement encompasses and resolves all the concerns that were raised in relation to the independence of the new national maternity hospital? I have huge respect for Mr. Mulvey's conclusions. Normally he is not a man to leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I disagree with that. This process has to come to an end at some stage. We have to address all the issues and determine when, and if, it is possible to proceed. There is not much sense having the Mulvey agreement, in having gone through a procedure and in having done so in great detail and after long and arduous debates and examination. There is not much sense having that if we are going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The obvious thing is to determine the status of independence of the maternity services and the State's right to govern in respect of policy and procedures at the maternity hospital and, at the same time, to meet the urgent need to provide those facilities. That is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is that not guaranteed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am raising concerns here and now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Did Mr. Mulvey not deal with that? Did he not deal with those issues in great detail and to his satisfaction and that of the State? What has changed in the interim?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I and others posed questions about the independence of the hospital and the difference in circumstances between now and the time of the Mulvey report. There is an urgent need to proceed because the project is going to take some time anyway. We must get out of the way but we need to know the extent to which the independence of the hospital is going to be guaranteed. We also need to know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: When does the Minister expect to bring proposals to Cabinet? Is it deemed to be important to bring them to Cabinet and to eliminate delay as quickly as possible?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Madam Chair, my apologies for having to be in the House at the same time. I welcome the Ministers and thank them for coming before the committee. I have two questions. First, notwithstanding that many commentators in the Houses of the Oireachtas over recent years have questioned the wisdom of the 12.5% corporation tax rate and suggested that it should be changed, that it was unfair and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, tweaking.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My next question to both Ministers is on housing. Housing, I believe, is a fundamental issue in regard to our economic performance by virtue of house costs or the proportion of the family income devoted to mortgage repayments or rent payments. I note the five-year plan, and it is positive. Unfortunately, I have been hearing that for the past ten or 15 years. There has always been a plan...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: May I ask one further question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I will direct my first question to everybody. Has a deadline been set for the roll-out of vaccines for all front-line staff who are in contact with patients or potential patients? If not, why not? My second point relates to student nurses. Has the emergency nature of the call to student nurses to work in extraordinary circumstances in which they would not normally have to work been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Could I have written replies, if possible, to the rest of the queries I raised?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Jul 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 807. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39170/21]