Results 9,241-9,260 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (7 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to combat inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4404/07]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (7 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the degree to which the local exchange in County Kilkenny has been broadband enabled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4406/07]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (7 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 12 December 2006 and the reply thereto, if he will provide a comprehensive reply to the part regarding his numerous statements in the recent past that he is urgently progressing measures to ensure the availability of broadband to the remaining 10% to 15% of people...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if supplementary welfare payment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4405/07]

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It just arose.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Tánaiste wants to answer.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: That is right.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It is like the Government — the promises are better than the delivery.

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I have inquired a number of times about the current whereabouts of promised legislation, that is, the Postal Services Bill, which the Taoiseach admitted fell off the wagon. It was deemed to be important legislation two years ago but for some mysterious reason it disappeared. Is it intended to restore that proposal to the Order Paper or does disagreement exist within the Government as to...

Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Why was it removed? Is it because the Tánaiste disagreed with it? Were there internal policy differences?

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Bureaucratic erosion.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: That is what this means though.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It does.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It will.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister sets out what he believes are the positive reasons for the support he expects to come from the House. We in Fine Gael have always supported the concept of European integration and we have supported all European legislative proposals. We have taken a leading role in the promotion of the European project and continue to do so in a manner which is responsible and which has due...

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Or both. There are serious implications, which the Minister and the Government have not fully studied. For example, the degree to which public utilities, institutions or services, such as sewage treatment systems, impact negatively on the environment will mean inevitably that someone will have to be imprisoned if the Minister proceeds as he proposes. As the Minister for the Environment,...

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I would move inland at high speed if I was the Minister of State because he will know all about it when they catch up with him. The proposed legislation will remove the political input from law-making, thereby usurping the legislative function of the Oireachtas. Under these proposals, legislation will be able to pass from Brussels to national implementation without the input of the...

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The founder of the party claimed he used to look into his own heart for inspiration as to what the people wanted. The Minister of State will spend much time looking into his heart and those of his colleagues before he finds inspiration that will lead him to believe the people want him to proceed in this fashion. Fine Gael will oppose the Bill because the Minister of State and his colleagues...

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: They have now set it aside, proposing to bypass it. The only occasion when we will be able to catch up with the Government is at election time. Fortunately, there is not yet any proposal to abolish elections, but that will come. I have no doubt that the electronic voting system was a fair attempt at moving in that direction.

European Communities Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Absolutely. The next initiative will be aimed at abolishing democracy, a goal towards which we are working.