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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (22 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to receive the modified preliminary report from Kildare County Council in the matter of the upgrading of the waste water treatment facilities at Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare in view of the necessity to proceed with the project given the serious pollution threat; the nature of the...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Sherlock might be right.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It is a serious case of provocation.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Tánaiste may be making a statement. The Minister should check on him.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It is like e-voting. One can never trust it.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister should not go there.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It does not.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It was absolutely.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Correct.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Like the health boards.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on the Medical Practitioners Bill 2007. Like Deputy Fitzpatrick, I should declare an interest — I was a member of a local health committee and the local health board for many years. As I listen to this debate, I have to compare the problems the House is considering with the problems it used to have to manage. In the bad old days when this country...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: We knew precisely what was going on, including some things we were not supposed to know. The abolition of the health boards was promised before the last general election as a panacea that would save huge amounts of money. That was absolute rubbish because it had the opposite effect. It brought to an end the supervision of the health service by the blue-suited, brown-shoed, hard-nosed,...

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I have a number of related questions, although I know we are running out of time.

Water and Sewerage Schemes. (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It has been writing to the Minister of State for five years.

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: So there will be only one if there is no duplication.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Or did he?

Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Notwithstanding the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill which is before the House, is it intended to introduce a further regulatory communications Bill to combat the type of issue raised by Deputy Kenny on the use of the Internet for pornography purposes? I have raised that issue on numerous occasions during the past two years. It has been refused on numerous occasions on the basis...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It does require legislation in the communications sector.

Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I would like to be able to welcome the Bill because for the past four or five years there has been much debate about the need for regulation that benefits the consumer in the telecommunications area. The Bill, however, is ineffective because it is too little too late, and the proposals it contains are unlikely to reverse the slide that has taken place in this area over the past six or seven...