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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he can assist the mother of a person (details supplied) who is psychotic and requires urgent residential care; if arrangements can be urgently made for such care to be provided as a matter of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30465/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I have to leave shortly because I am due in the Chamber for Topical Issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Several issues have been discussed here. The first is the secondment. It is accepted that the situation was not handled in the best way possible but that, of course, is hindsight. I would challenge some of the views expressed on this basis. Dr. Tony Holohan was in situat a very difficult time for the country, the HSE and his family during which he was beset by all the issues, had to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, hold on now. I did not interrupt the Deputy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Since the Deputy did interrupt me, just let me say this. He does not look askance at making accusations from time to time based on dubious information. Let us, therefore, deal with facts instead of propaganda. Propaganda cloaked as facts is wrong. It is misleading and bad for everyone. The Minister made one point, and I will finish on this observation, regarding the secondment. I refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I do not wish to cut across the Minister either, but the fact of the matter is this. If the proposal was serious, it was not a situation in which somebody could go to Tony Holohan, say thought was being given to this proposition, that it might be possible to do it, get him to agree to it and then end up with there being no funding available for it at the end of the day. He was not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: This is speculative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I was there all the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: He is being unfair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any British-Irish conferences and meetings that he has attended recently. [29881/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Meetings of this sort are a good occasion to float new ideas with particular reference to the degree to which we can assess its acceptability. In this regard, I ask the Taoiseach whether it was possible to do that and to expand on the issues referred to by my colleague a couple minutes ago to find out whether there was an acceptability of the need to move on and to make progress on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (27 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I want to join this conversation, if possible. There are various projects, like those described by my colleagues, that were urgently required many years ago. The need was demonstrated many years ago. Particularly in relation to flooding relief, the emphasis now is on re-flooding areas. I would hate to think that in deference to re-flooding, we might put on the back burner those projects...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We have received apologies from Senator Higgins. Today the committee will meet with officials from the Department of Finance on authorised push payment, APP, fraud. I welcome Mr. John Palmer, EU banking and payment policy in the banking division and Ms Sorcha Keogh, payments policy. Witnesses who are physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Conway-Walsh, it is all yours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Does anybody else wish to come in? No. Does the information published today have any impact on what Mr. Palmer was able to tell the committee this afternoon? Is it in any way contradictory? Has Mr. Palmer seen it? Has he looked it over?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: There is nothing else Mr. Palmer would like to warn us about. There might be something in there, hidden away in the top left-hand corner that the human eye cannot see at the moment but that it might be able to pick up at a later stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will Mr. Palmer apprise the committee of the contents of it by way of letter, perhaps just to alert us as to what is in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Does anybody else want to come in?