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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The vote will take place at the usual time next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for arriving late. I was otherwise engaged. I welcome our guests this afternoon. To what extent is technology being developed that would be triggered by an attempted scam of the nature that has been discussed? What exists at present? I know about this to my cost from getting money at the hole in the wall. I put in my usual PIN, and I always check it, to be told that it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to highlight a situation, perhaps with a red alert, to the effect that an attempt has been made? I know the banks have the technology to see that several attempts have been made to put in a PIN and shut down a card. In the case of a debit card this can be quite an inconvenience if someone needs cash. We will not speak about cash in the context of the machine in Leinster...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I appreciate it but I do not always appreciate it at the time. It happens once every six or seven months, especially when people are tired and it is late in the evening. There is a pattern whereby the banks question a number put in late in the evening on the basis it could be a scammer. More than likely it is not a scammer but they want to be sure and I realise this. A particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I realise that measures have to be taken to protect the customer and I am glad to see it but I want to come back to the original question. Much more needs to be done with regard to technology. Social media has been mentioned. It has many advantages but it also has disadvantages. I am not inclined to believe everything I see or hear on social media and I would not want anybody else to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Is there a possibility that because the advertiser is a person of high repute, the online advertisement could lose some of its value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I will say it another way. If something has been advertised on television and radio, when a customer sees something of that nature online, the immediate reaction might well be that something is a scam because it is on social media.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Would it be beyond possibility that in Irish banks, a particular branch might be contactable by a customer directly as opposed to going through a call centre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I accidentally got through on one occasion. Unfortunately, on more than one occasion I had to go through the whole "press button one, then press button two, then sorry the line is broken down, goodbye" rigmarole.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses. I have a couple of questions as I have to go to another meeting. On the national service plan, to what extent have the causes of the logjams been identified in respect of the delivery of services? How have they been identified so far? In some cases, they are still to be identified. What are the anticipated positive effects those identifications and spotting of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent have the challenges that have already emerged from the various CHOs been evaluated? To what degree is Mr. Gloster satisfied that the remedies for dealing with those issues will suffice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Which CHOs are performing better and which are not performing so well based on populations challenges, etc? For example, I am thinking of CHO 9, which comes up in correspondence on a regular basis. Have the challenges in that area been pencilled in? There are certainly population challenges in that area. To what extent is it likely to impact in a beneficial way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: In the overall picture let us look at the various CHOs, including those under pressure or those not performing as well as they could or should be, for whatever reason. To what extent has the HSE looked at the least performing CHOs to try to bring them to a reasonably acceptable level in addition to them improving, developing and evolving as they move forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I will move on to neurological rehabilitation services and ask the same question relating to the challenges that have occurred previously. There are many challenges. We all know about them. There are patients who have challenges themselves, and they know they have. There are patients who need attention and cannot get attention. There are people who need to go on addiction programmes and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Could we particularly look at the area that is affected by population, insufficient staff demands or whatever the case may be? Over the past three weekends, I found myself trying to make arrangements to have a patient seen as a matter of urgency out of hours. Personal illness continues out of hours and does not stop at 6 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The service needs to be brought up to a reasonably acceptable level in those areas.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which award of further sports grants is anticipated in the coming year; the extent to which those who were beneficiaries in the past three years, and found themselves unable to complete the works, can be accommodated by time extension or top-up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23524/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to liaise with cultural and artistic groups in County Kildare and throughout the country at large with a view to encouraging interest in the arts, sports, Gaeltacht affairs and cultural activity, given the importance of these issues by way of recovery after Covid; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the provision of accommodation for persons on local authority housing lists as well as those seeking affordable housing can be accommodated in the short term alongside the competing equally valid requirements of refugees and the aforementioned numbers on the housing lists; if modular housing or wooden...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to support the arts on a county basis and at national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23971/23]