Results 32,881-32,900 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 May 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a submission and or representations from the authorities at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, requesting funding for renewal of the bitmac surface on the school yard; if such works will be undertaken in the course of the summer works, or alternative emergency provisions, given the necessity to improve the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the position regarding progressing the provision of extra facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if all documentation required has been submitted by the school authorities; the extent to which this documentation has been assessed to date; when it is expected approval will issue to enable the school proceed to...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry about that. I am sure the Chair can extend the four minutes and 30 seconds. Perhaps if we have long minutes - Irish minutes.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I will conclude by saying that there are many other things that I would love to deal with but it is not possible to do so in the length of time available. Shared ownership loans have been referred to. We have done a lot of work on them as well and we are going to do it.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I am operating on instructions received.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I will therefore concede to my colleagues, each and all of them, and remind them that at some stage in the future I expect them to do the same thing for me.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, Hear.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Absolutely. Nobody refers to it on that side of the House. It is one of the things we have had to live with. During the period of doubt about the IBRC and other institutions, I was the recipient of countless phone calls from small savers on a daily basis who were inquiring about what they should do with their few shillings. They said they had been saving for a few years and asked if they...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I believe we have two separate slots.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: I think I have 20 minutes now and, according to the Whips Office, my colleague has a separate slot. I listened attentively as Deputy Grealish mentioned a very important issue because I heard the same views expressed in the middle of the boom when money was falling out of the trees. It was not possible to focus on the issues at that time but enough of that, we will not go there. They...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: -----but the order of the day now appears to be that everybody is mentioned, particularly people outside the House who have no possibility of answering any accusations. The members of the Opposition seem to have forgotten one very important factor. One speaker, Deputy Shane Ross, correctly stated earlier that this Government inherited the most awful economic situation the country ever...
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: No, it was 30 September.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Deputies Shane Ross and Paul Murphy are sharing time.
- Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: The criminal procedure Bill is promised legislation. It proposes to modernise the pre-trial process. Have the heads been approved by Cabinet? When is it likely to come before the House? The mediation Bill will have a very broad impact on a series of other areas outside its immediate area. I ask the extent to which that has been progressed at the moment. When is it likely to come before...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: Fianna Fáil did not do much about the issue when it had responsibility for this.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department expect to be in a position to assist and provide funding to various local bodies involved in 1916 commemorative events; the degree to which her Department has received requests in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16745/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (30 Apr 2015)
Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which agreement has been reached between the traditional canal users, dwellers, recreational users and Waterways Ireland in regard to the draft regulations to dramatically increase charges, which could have the effect of limiting the extent to which the canals may be available to such users in the future; if the...