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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: One speaker at a time, please.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: One speaker at a time, please.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: I ask the Minister of State to hold on for a second.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: Stop for a second, please.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: No. Order, please. I want to make one thing clear to the Minister of State. No good will come from having an argy-bargy across the floor. It does not achieve any progress. I ask both parties, therefore, to please respect the other's view. Deputy Doherty can ask the question-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: One speaker at a time, please.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. We do not have many deep sea ports in Kildare. We have quite a number of harbours, albeit canal harbours, but they are still there. In regard to the development of facilities for educational and tourism purposes, however, we have quite a number of historic houses, some of which are under the guidance of the OPW already. Moneys have been spent and continue to be spent....
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: The works that have already been done have made an enormous improvement. Hundreds of acres were regularly flooded - it was not just once every ten years. That is good. Grace O'Malley was a very progressive lady and built a number of castles along the western seaboard. Some of them have been restored and upgraded but some have not. How can the rest of them or the best of them be...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: They are not only on Clare Island; they run along the coast.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: That would be fine. I hope the Minister of State will be visiting my constituency shortly.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: It was not possible for me to turn up on the last occasion because three other issues needed to be dealt with on that day. There are a few very ancient buildings there that have been pinned in an effort to hold them together. The work on Taghadoe Abbey and the round tower will not last for ever. The tower will need its walls and roof to be sealed. If the walls can absorb water, any...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022) Bernard Durkan: Despite the level of interest early on, the interest has waned. As some members have requested that further information be sent to the committee, I propose that we agree that the consideration of the Revised Estimates has concluded, subject to the committee receiving supplementary information, as requested. The clerk will circulate the information once received. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has considered the following Revised Estimate for Public Services - Vote 13 - Office of Public Works. Under Standing Order 100(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for attending. First, I want to congratulate them on their management skills in handling and dealing with the challenges raised. All credit is due to their team. It is not an easy task, either for the system in general or for each of the team individually. We need to record our appreciation for the job they have done and hope they can continue it. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I am going to ask them one at a time, if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Is Dr. Holohan satisfied that the natural resistance is sufficiently holding up following the relaxation of the regulations. Has he anticipated the level of resistance as being as it is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Has the take-up of the booster doses altered in any way that Dr. Holohan has noticed since the relaxation? What are the indications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: Does Professor Nolan want to add anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I will end on a comment rather than a question. We were very lucky to have the teams we have had in dealing with this virus. They have done very well. The fight is not over yet, however. The next battle will go into another area, that of enabling the health services to combat the waiting times and problems that have backed up during Covid and that were backing up before that. We do not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)
Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which third and fourth level education is likely to focus on the need to supply suitably qualified staff in the public and private sectors and in areas currently experiencing difficulties in obtaining and retaining staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6349/22]