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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Might it be possible to consider also the reintroduction of the private sites scheme or individual subsidised sites in a number of counties to cater for that part of the market that is not being catered for at the present time by virtue of a number of issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Are the minutes agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss consideration of access to community neurological rehabilitation teams. To assist the committee with this I am pleased to welcome from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, NAI, Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director, Dr. Susan Coote, associate professor, University of Limerick, and Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist in Beaumont...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms Rogers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We have ten minutes, including for questions and answers. There will be an opportunity to follow up on it later, however. I should have said at the outset that a number of members will have to absent themselves because there is business to be dealt with in the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Starting with Deputy Cullinane. That will come. Our apologies, but that is the way the House is setting and business goes on. Members have to be in two or three places at the same time. Deputy Róisín Shortall is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry but we have to move on. The next contributor should be Deputy Gino Kenny but he has agreed to let Senator Conway go before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I congratulate the witnesses on their presentation. It was well-focused, well-directed and at an opportune time. Timing is all-important in all this business. In particular, I congratulate the witnesses on their point about enabling the establishment of teams in CHO 5, CHO 8 and CHO 9. The point was well made. Now is the time to make it; in other words, in good time for Bernard Gloster's...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sharing time with Deputy Lawless. I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute on this important issue, which is growing more important as time goes by. I compliment the Tánaiste on bringing the matter before the House and setting up this review of our defence and security, of which there are many aspects. As every day goes by, new threats arise that we may have to contend...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Law Cases (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to bring this matter up again. I am aware there is a lot of support for the content of the question, both inside this House and outside. It has recently come to pass that the issue also takes up discussion in other parliaments too, including yesterday and the day before in the House of Commons, as well as at the United Nations Human Rights...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Law Cases (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I very much appreciate the Minister of State coming into the House. I know she has taken an interest in that particular subject as well, and rightly so. I thank her for the tone of the reply. My only comment is in support in thanking the Minister of State and the Minister for Justice for bringing the matter this far. The next important item is to bring it the rest of the way in the...

Dog Welfare Report: Motion (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: A Aire Stáit, you have five minutes more if you want to take them.

Dog Welfare Report: Motion (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kerrane has ten minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for Justice, Deputy Harris, the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for facilitating the publication of the so-called parental alienation report. I do not, as yet, know what it is in that report but I hope it will be sufficient starkly and suddenly to discontinue the practice. I compliment all involved...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she hopes to have sufficient school places available at primary and second level in Kildare North, and throughout the country at large, in time for the beginning of the new school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22873/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she aspires to ensure the widest possible availability of school transport in Kildare North, and throughout the country, in time for the September school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consular assistance can be given to the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22496/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which Defence and security systems in this country are sufficiently updated to meet any act or threat of aggression; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23243/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Properties (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 211. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which previously vacated military installations are being made available for housing or refugee purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23244/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 212. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the degree to which the national army is being upgraded and updated in line with the requirements of a modern army within the European Union in the event of a threat arising from any quarter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23245/23]