Results 29,661-29,680 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I call Deputies Kathleen Funchion and Martin Kenny who will share ten minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: It was Deputy Brophy.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Peter Fitzpatrick are next. I understand they are sharing ten minutes.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Mattie McGrath is next on the list of speakers but tá sé as láthair. I invite Deputy Colm Brophy to make his statement.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Deputies Frank O'Rourke and Anne Rabbitte are to share speaking time.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: There are three and half minutes left in the slot.
- Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: There are seven minutes left in the slot.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Finance (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Apologies for my late entry. In fact, I was meeting representatives of a lending institution with a constituent to discuss the issue of mortgage arrears. It is one of many issues. I welcome the Minister and his officials for whom I have three questions. First, there is the urgent, emergency problem, namely, the large number of families in emergency accommodation. The local authorities...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Brett and his colleagues for coming before the committee and for the useful information they have provided. I am sure the replies to the questions will be even more useful. I should mention that I have had the pleasure of meeting the witnesses' predecessors, their predecessors' predecessors and even the latter's predecessors on the same issue. My first question concerns the...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I know they are. I have been at the other side of the counter dealing with all these cases for many years, including the time since this Government was formed.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The point I wanted to make before I was interrupted was, to what extent can people be given a credit rating on the basis of their rental record? My last point relates to the mortgage-to-rent scheme which has already been referred to. Unfortunately, the scheme is all directed towards the voluntary housing agencies the activities of which I have referred to on many occasions. To what...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry for taking so long. I was years waiting for that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Unregulated entities.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Except for the public-private partnership arrangement.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry to hear again of the approved housing bodies. I regard them as the essential cause of the housing crisis, in the sense that reliance on the approved housing bodies is what has left local authority social housing as it is. I cannot for the life of me understand why some effort is not being made. Although I welcome the submission from the Irish League of Credit Unions, it means...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I have a question. That should be obvious at this stage. This applies to all the wise people as well. To what extent has the ILCU examined the prospect of entering into a public private partnership with the local authorities which have direct responsibility for providing local authority housing? Has the ILCU thought of the possibility of reintroducing what used to be funded by the local...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Or the local authorities.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: What interest rate would the ILCU charge?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when she will pay basic supplementary welfare allowance to a person (details supplied) while an appeal is pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9268/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (5 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which unemployment alleviation measures continue to make a positive impact on long-term and youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9296/16]