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Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill makes proposals in respect of the powers of IDA Ireland to acquire property in the public interest. When will it come before the House?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Supports (7 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 173. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which IDA Ireland's development programme continues to develop to maximise advantages for job creation and economic competitiveness on international markets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6359/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland (10 Jul 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 365. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which IDA Ireland’s development programme continues to develop to maximise advantages for job creation and economic competitiveness on international markets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (14 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which the development programme of the IDA continues to develop to maximise advantages for job creation and economic competitiveness on international markets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20891/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guest speakers and thank them for their presentation. Going back to the very start, when did the IDA last consult with the Department on the issue the association has just raised with us now?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the degree to which IDA assistance remains available to the manufacturing sector throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62303/22]

Order of Business (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: ...schedule for publishing the broadcasting Bill and the minerals development Bill, given the emphasis placed on the need for energy and resources at competitive prices, as evidenced in the recent IDA Ireland report?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Patent Applications (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent of engagement in 2021 between his Department and IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland on the concept of the unified patent court and the opportunities for Ireland arising therefrom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56093/21]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 260. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which her Department, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland can plan for a worst case scenario in the aftermath of Brexit; if it is possible to make good any such losses by alternative means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6632/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Irish Dental Association Strategic Workforce Plan: Irish Dental Association (5 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...on future planning in the context of service delivery? It might be easier for the committee to concentrate on those if we could identify the most important issues affecting and confronting the IDA so we can relay it to the Minister, as a committee and individually, in such a way that it gets attention it might not get otherwise. I assure the witnesses from past experience, of which I...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: ...of the agency. I tabled the amendment to add another tier of safety, so to speak, and to try to ensure the conditions pertaining at the time are borne in mind. In 1987, another State agency, the IDA as it was then called, was given instructions to dispose of property throughout the country. I felt that decision was wrong and that the property would have to be bought back at some later...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: ...taken, we would have had a serious problem. In 1987, when there was a need to curtail public expenditure, a direction was given by several Ministers to dispose of assets, including assets of the IDA and Iarnród Éireann. Conditions prevailing at the time were such that a major industrial site in my constituency had been earmarked for disposal. It disappeared from the agenda and I...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (12 Mar 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...in the north west; (7) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd — to discuss the allocation of home care hours from the HSE for persons in CHO area 8; (8) Deputy James Browne — the need for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to liaise with IDA Ireland to provide additional jobs and further investment in County Wexford; (9) Deputies Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath — the...

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)

Bernard Durkan: ...of everybody concerned - the Government, the Minister and his colleagues. It is also a tribute to those in the public sector charged with this responsibility, such as Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and the county enterprise boards, which have undertaken this work in the past. All credit is due to them for their efforts. They did not have an easy task. The work was all uphill and...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: ...crazy situation and I cannot understand the reason this has not been recognised. I refer to the points that already have been raised by my colleagues. I welcome the positive work being done by the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and everyone else to create the proper environment for investment and job creation. However, all of that will come to naught unless we can compete effectively with all...

Industrial Development Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: ...frightened for a number of reasons. One is that Government failed to manage. It is as simple as that. There is nothing complicated about it. There are statistics available everywhere through the IDA and the various development authorities all over the country which showed trends over the past number of years. Somebody convinced the Government, and it convinced itself, that we had...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...society. The late former Taoiseach Seán Lemass moved away from that back in the 1960s, changed everything and developed a competitive society by means of which we were able to compete on our own. IDA Ireland and all of the other organisations concentrated on competing in a world market and moved away from the old days of protectionism, when as a small country we were always going to...