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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes. There is a need to ensure every opportunity for recovery in the tourism sector, which is willing and anxious to proceed in the way already mentioned but needs that little bit extra.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important issue. It goes without saying that all present condemn the atrocities that have led to this situation and the aggression by a country that professes to be an international model of some sort. The pattern of events that is taking place is the same as that which took place in a different time and a different country when the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to utilise Ireland’s culture in the promotion of a positive image at home and abroad which will ultimately benefit the tourism sector throughout the country with particular reference to the promotion of historic houses and ancient sites; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will increase the income thresholds for local authority housing applicants in order to ensure that urgent progress is made to enable those being excluded on income grounds from local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which each local authority has achieved progress in relation to the provision of affordable first-time buyers local authority housing in sufficient numbers to accelerate the provision of such housing in order to meet the twin growing demands of the existing population and anticipated refugee requirement; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pupils who are attending their second closest school will be deemed eligible for school transport for the school year 2022-2023 as was in the case in 2021-2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22540/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have a question on reducing the cost of insurance in general. Is there a means of determining the risk involved? This matter has been referred to already. For example, is it possible to determine whether a situation is an accident waiting to happen, to quote the old professional phrase?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is it not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: That is a useful reply. This matter has a bearing on the cost of insurance generally. Once upon a time, a local authority would dig a hole in the road, put a barrel into it and leave the hole there, sometimes for weeks or months. That would obviously be classified as an accident waiting to happen. Someone would fall into it, trip on the barrel or whatever the case may be. I wish to ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms Murdock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests to this morning's meeting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: This conversation is really a distraction. If things had gone the way they should have, we would be in a different situation, addressing the challenges of the public health services in this country, which should get and need to get priority at this time. Like other members, I believe there is still time to rescue the issue, and every effort should be made by everybody involved to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I go back to the job in hand and what is ahead of us, specifically the reorganisation of the health services. Mr. Watt will have a meaningful role to play in that. Does he recognise the role he must play in the recovery of the rest of the health services in general after Covid-19? In other jurisdictions they are now finding out that various areas of health services were neglected due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Will Mr. Watt give us some indication of the extent to which he has studied waiting lists for procedures in respect-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We have discussed it and other matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: With respect, I am a member of this committee and I have raised this question repeatedly. I did not get the required answers. I am not blaming the Chairman but I need answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: When will it be announced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: There is a certain urgency about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Right.