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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I have one last question, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Mr. Gloster and wish him well for the future. Without doubt, he has a mammoth task ahead. However, there will also be opportunities. Mr. Gloster indicated that he is prepared to meet the challenges and overcome the obstacles that exist in so far as that can be done. I want to know, if possible, the degree to which Mr. Gloster has identified the main issues that afflict the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: A number of issues have repeatedly arisen at meetings of this committee over the past number of years. I refer, for example, to overcrowding and a lack of capacity in the south west, particularly Limerick. Does Mr. Gloster have in mind a short-term plan that will deal with the situation in a way which will ensure that it will not have to be dealt with again next year or the year after? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: One of the things I have noticed over the years relates to the building programme. We have certain elements of the building programme, including the children's hospital and the new national maternity hospital, for which I presume plans are ongoing at pace. I was told something a number of years ago regarding the very current issue of housing. I went to Ministers, Secretaries General and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I come from the generation that was led to believe many years ago that we had far too many hospital beds and hospitals and too much space in hospitals. We argued against this theory at the time for very good reasons which are now obvious to everybody. I am delighted to hear Mr. Gloster's vision for the future in this regard. As a priority, it would be helpful if he were to go down through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is, as my colleague was saying a few minutes ago, the year after.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know, but it is after the event that it is coming up again. It is urgently needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The rest of the facilities are urgently needed. Mr. Gloster knows that. I know that. The people who are the potential patients of that hospital know that as well. I will make another point. I had need to access emergency treatment recently and I was really impressed with the treatment in a public hospital. I drove in and was attended to - not immediately, as there were between 20 and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to provide increased public transport either by way of CIÉ or private bus operators to Kilshanroe, Enfield, County Kildare, given the population increase in the area in recent years, and the fact that the 120 bus passes through the village each day but does not stop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14150/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport tickets will be facilitated in the case of the two sons of a person (details supplied); if their case will be considered as a matter of urgency; if contact will be made with the family by Bus Éireann given they have been attempting to make contact to bring this matter to a resolution; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the most recent application for the disability allowance will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the processing application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14123/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the processing an application for travel documents in the case of a person (details supplied) who submitted an application for travel documents in March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an extension of time can be afforded to a person (details supplied) to collate the information required in respect of his application for citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14132/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is a very important subject and I am trying to accommodate as many people as possible within the time. We will start the sequence again. Deputy Ward can go first this time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is a very important subject and the Minister correctly gave a bit of latitude to it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I was right the first time and wrong the second time. We are on Question No. 8 in the name of Deputy Barry Cowen.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: You have informed the Ceann Comhairle that you are taking the question on his behalf.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Excellent. We will not argue about it.

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am happy to have an opportunity to comment on this important issue, which affects everybody. The standard of safety and services in our hospital facilities is all-important from the point of view of the public and particularly from the point of view of staff in situations where they may be threatened, attacked, assaulted or whatever the case may be. That is completely intolerable. It is...