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Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (28 Sep 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 320: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those qualifying for shared ownership loans, who opt to buy out the remaining equity in their property in any year subsequent to taking out the mortgage will automatically activate the claw back in full, whereas, those who can avail of a loan from a financial...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister is being disingenuous.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It did not come in on budget though.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Tell us about e-voting.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: That does not augur well for Ireland.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad of the opportunity to speak on this motion, which I fully support. As someone who spent a number of years on the Committee of Public Accounts, I regard the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General as being of critical importance. That committee is probably the only one with the resources necessary to undertake investigations of spending throughout the public sector. The...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It was criminal what the Minister and his colleague did.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: They proceeded, regardless of public opinion——

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: ——and of the technical information——

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister should withdraw that remark and use it in company that is more akin to his own.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: When the Minister makes stupid remarks like that we know he does not understand what he says.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister inherited e-voting and he did not have the guts to say it would not work.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister was afraid and did not have the guts to say it would not work. He still does not have the guts.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister knows that sooner or later somebody will have to climb down and the Minister will have to accept his failure and responsibility in that awful debacle. There is also the issue of the port tunnel. Let me explain about that tunnel.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The forward planning for that tunnel was amazing. Public money was being spent so nobody cared a damn about it. It was only public money. Four years ago I put down a parliamentary question asking how the traffic would be funnelled into the port tunnel. There was a massive snigger from the Government; funnelling was not on its mind. However, funnelling is the issue. The N11, N7, N9, M4...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Ultimately, the soon to be upgraded M50 will have trucks parked on it all day attempting to get into or out of the port tunnel. I have never seen anything like it.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I am not the only one who does not know what I am talking about it.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister saw the events in Hungary over the last couple of weeks. He knows what would happen to him if he was in Hungary.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: He would have to leave office surreptitiously, in the middle of the night, apologising to the general public on his way out the door.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to mention some other matters. The Minister is impervious to anything but basking in his own glory. He spoke about rail transport.