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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What about the concept of a larger ward where skeleton staff, for want of a better word-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I remember being in Jervis Street Hospital in 1972 when the fire broke out in Noyek's and patients were brought in to the emergency department. The wards were very big at the time with perhaps 50 patients. I do not suggest that as a resolution but it would be better than having patients in a corridor or anywhere else. At the same time such patients would be under observation because one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry for being absent because I manage bilocation - hopefully effectively. I welcome our guests. This has been a long day on this subject and other subjects. On the ongoing administration of health services, we have two bodies, the HSE and the Department of Health, and to my mind the twain shall never meet. In my opinion it does not work that way and it will remain my opinion. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Why only at the Committee on the Future of Healthcare? Accident and emergency is an urgent issue now, and could be tomorrow again. The purpose of the question was to try to elicit what might be done as a matter of urgency to deal with the problems that existed last year and the year before and will exist next year unless something is done about them this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: How can we achieve that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry to interrupt again, but how much of that can the HSE deliver in a year? The public and many members here and elsewhere are anxious to ascertain how long it will take. We hear every year that we are getting a step further but all we are doing is chasing after the wagon. Is it possible to identify precisely what is needed at least to hold the problem without all of these...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Dr. Turner for his submission. I apologise for being absent at the beginning due to parking difficulty. I have the submission in front of me. A consultant friend of mine has identified - according to himself, anyway - that medical economics is public enemy No. 1 insofar as the delivery of health services is concerned. He cites the extent to which medical economists have been in...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: It was just a reaction out there.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: How do hospital services, and medicine generally, in other European countries maintain their quotas of medical professionals? They do not seem have a problem recruiting or holding on to them.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he, along with EU and UN colleagues, continues to press for humanitarian assistance in the various conflict zones globally; if consideration continues to be given to the provision of safe or protective havens for civilian communities fleeing from war, genocide and terrorism; the extent to which peace keeping...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for refusal of a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); if it will be reviewed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3294/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to liaise with his EU colleagues to ensure the best possible position for Ireland, the need to remain at the heart of the European Union and use influence in a positive way in the course of future negotiations on Brexit to facilitate traditional trade with the UK without tariffs and maintain the operation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he remains assured that all other EU member states remain on side in supporting Ireland's position in negotiations on Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3511/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to his discussions with his counterparts in other EU member states, if he remains satisfied with their support in the course of the Brexit negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3512/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which his EU counterparts are aware of the precarious position here in the geographical context post-Brexit, that Ireland's position off the western shores of Europe places it at a distinct disadvantage from a trading point of view for access to the Single Market and that compensatory measures are required as a result; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will have an opportunity to discuss the release of a person (details supplied) with the Egyptian authorities with a view to the person's early release having particular regard to the repeated adjournments of their case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Security Strategy (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of consideration given to European defence and security for the future in the context of a diminution in US support through NATO or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3515/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Western Balkans Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the situation in the western Balkans continues to be monitored with particular reference to continued peace and security and membership of the European Union for the various states in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which international relief is accessing the various sensitive areas in Syria; if a greater degree of co-ordination and co-operation is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the UN and EU can co-ordinate their efforts in respect of the refugee crisis arising from various conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3518/17]