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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 986. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if in the pursuit of relocated working conditions, it has been found possible to provide the necessary level of IT including broadband to the various hubs throughout the country in order to ensure insofar as is possible a working environment for those who may find it possible to work from an alternative location; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 987. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which first funding allocations are anticipated from the new community centres investment fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18362/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 988. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she can encourage the use of the local improvement scheme by various local authorities in which suitable schemes are proposed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18363/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 989. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications for local improvement schemes from each local authority received by the appropriate Department in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 990. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which various recreational walk schemes throughout the country continue to be expanded by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18365/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (5 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 992. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department continue to strive for an even spread of development, job locations and digital hubs throughout the country in such a way as to ensure the availability of an office setting in areas not previously sufficiently provided for through digital developments; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests to the meeting and thank them for the information they have provided. I want to deal with a couple of things very quickly, the first of which is with regard to inflation. Inflation rates are running somewhat ahead of predictions at this stage and are accelerating. Has the Central Bank a role in determining what causes the inflation? For instance, it can readily be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is not going down; it is going up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Has the Central Bank been able to identify any particular issues that are not related to those Mr. Makhlouf talked about in respect of supply and demand but where inflation exists and the response is it is a fact of life, everybody is doing it, so it is current and it is going to happen? Is the bank challenging the cause or causes where it can?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is partly a statistical phenomenon, but that phenomenon is supposed to be explained to people. For example, it is not sufficient to say that there is general inflation and that we will be hit by it the same as everyone else. That does not always apply. There is inflation that is attributable to a particular issue and there is inflation which is not. The inflation which is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is whatever Mr. Makhlouf wants to make of it. I contend that banks are disappearing and I am looking for his response to that and whether he thinks it is a good thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The public do not get consulted. The banks decide that for themselves.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I did not intend to speak on this particular subject, but, like the Minister of State, having a fair amount of experience of the vicissitudes of the electorate and the electoral system, I think one should always avail of the opportunity to speak on it. First, the proposals always need to reflect through democracy. I note that Deputy Connolly referred to draconian measures. Nobody ever...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (7 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this important legislation. The old saying is that it is an ill wind that does not blow some good. The pandemic caused us all to concentrate on the particular circumstances that applied in some situations. People were vulnerable in particular situations and were called upon to work for as long as possible in order to keep the show on the road...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I want to make two last comments, Chairman, if that is possible and I will be quick. One relates to the financial crash. The banks were in a position to be able to do something about it. The Central Bank allowed the banks to continue to lend incessantly, against fresh air, for want of a better description, as someone commented recently. In other words, there was insufficient collateral to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which wood-frame houses are likely to become a solution to part of the housing problem in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18652/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which it is expected to use timber in the construction of the urgently needed houses throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18654/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Government expects to rely on the forestry wood supply industry to provide timber for the provision of urgently required homes throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18655/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which carbon reduction can be achieved through the greater use of wood in the construction of houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18653/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which it is expected to reach published targets on forestry; when the plan commenced; when it is expected to achieve the proposed targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18647/22]