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- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: No.
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I think we are all delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this particular strategy. It has been long awaited and is long needed. I thought for many years that we would never see the day we would get to the stage where a housing strategy became evident in the House of Parliament. At last something is being done directly about the issues, which some of us saw and foretold many years...
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Mary Butler will speak next. Perhaps Deputy Eugene Murphy might take the Chair as I will speak after her.
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Therefore, is it Deputy Eugene Murphy and-----
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: -----Deputy Mary Butler sharing? Is it three minutes and two minutes, respectively?
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Two and a half minutes and two and a half?
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: There is no time left in that slot now. Deputy Butler has another slot coming up after three speakers or so. The next speaker is Deputy Martin Kenny. Is Deputy Martin Kenny taking the whole slot or is he sharing?
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Does Deputy Smith accept that as an explanation?
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Bill, which is considered to be a Dáil Bill in accordance with Article 22.2 of the Constitution, will be sent to the Seanad.
- Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Next on my list is Deputy Barry Cowen but I do not see him here. I think he spoke before.
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is the Deputy accepting the Minister's explanation?
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is the amendment being pressed?
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Is Deputy Bríd Smith pressing amendment No. 3?
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 were discussed together. The Minister has accepted amendment No. 2. Deputy Bríd Smith can press her amendment if she wishes.
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are related and may be discussed together.
- Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: As we are required to conclude the debate on this Bill in 23 minutes, I will allow Deputy Eamon Ryan to come in at this stage.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Can the Minister of State indicate the extent to which the apprenticeship scheme can address, in full or in part, the likely staff shortages in both the manufacturing and service sectors?
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State.
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which she and her Department have identified any particular or specific skills requirements and or deficiencies which need to be addressed in order to maximise the filling of job opportunities in the manufacturing or service sectors while maintaining its attraction as an investment centre for indigenous and foreign...
- Other Questions: Skills Shortages (20 Jul 2016)
Bernard Durkan: My question is an effort to identify the extent to which the skill sets throughout the workforce are adequate to meet the requirements of this era.