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

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On the €79,493,000 spent on private consultancy firms for strategic planning and business improvement which, if not spent there, would fund 1,865 therapy posts, 2,354 medical secretary posts or 1,334 psychology posts, how is that measured? Was the consultancy work required, would it have had to be provided in-house, or was it subcontracted out to people with expertise in that area,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Do such attendees at the briefing sessions contribute to the sessions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I refer again to the ageing population, which comes up all the time. I do not think that the number of old people is increasing. I think the number of younger people is increasing at a far more rapid rate. If one looks at the people congregating in supermarkets, stores and shops, with employment in the economy, there are huge numbers of young people coming into the country. We are also...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategies (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the degree to which he continues to explore opportunities under the shared island heading. [41445/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will next meet. [39167/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [41444/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason bikes are now limited on commuter rail services from Naas to Heuston, given that the two spaces currently permitted to be booked in advance are costly and always booked putting commuters who get on the train at the latter stage of the journey at a disadvantage, with particular reference to those who work near Heuston and do...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an urgent review of an application for domiciliary care allowance can take place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43402/24]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There is a problem to which the Deputy has referred. There is need for contact with the local authorities to try to ensure every opportunity is taken to prevent homelessness and not to impede the HAP system on top of everything else. People will become homeless very quickly when the tenancy has expired.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify, through the various local authorities, suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these, including modular homes and conventional methods, to provide houses for...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The question adequately explains the situation I and several others are faced with. I compliment the Minister. He has shed some considerable light on a situation that annoys us from time to time. With particular reference to the tenant in situ scheme, my experience has been that the proposal is refused in the first instance, although the landlord is willing to sell and so on. In some...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógail) - Other Questions (Resumed): Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In support of the Deputy and the theme he is developing, is it possible to put together a bundle of opportunities that might be availed of by various families who are finding it difficult to get into the housing market? For instance, the first response in respect of the tenant in-situ scheme seems to be refusal. That creates a delay and does not solve the housing problem for the individual...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he is availing of modern housing production methods to facilitate the provision of additional supply of homes to the market in order to address the ever increasing demand arising from termination of tenancies or other factors which might make it difficult, or even impossible, for families to provide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain, for people who find themselves with warnings to exit their existing tenancies and have little or no time to make alternative arrangements, the extent to which private service sites might be utilised.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I had in mind the utilisation of modern construction methods to speed up, in the first case, the provision of houses, and the provision of housing for people who may find themselves, through no fault of their own, without a home and have no option except to consider making themselves homeless by leaving the house they are in, in which case they will not be considered by the local authorities,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I accept that the Government's plan for housing is working but unfortunately it is working too slowly. It is not working fast enough to be able to feed the market that is ever growing. That market is caused by, in some cases, tenancies being terminated by landlords for whatever reason. There is no blame on anybody but the tenants have been given a deadline. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with the British prime minister. [37659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport of a person (details supplied) can be returned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42633/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who is having ongoing difficulties obtaining same since their application for naturalisation was granted last year; if clarification can be provided regarding the documentation outstanding in this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (22 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if every effort can be made to increase the capacity to the C Spine route from Dublin city centre at peak times, with particular reference to the C52 route from Ringsend to Intel, with particular reference to the ongoing public feedback that the buses are often full to capacity by the time they reach Aston Quay and unable to take any...