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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 497. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate if and when a medical card can be provided in the case of the spouse of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 498. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of November 2003 in the case of a person (details supplied), if my previous question constitutes a request for a review/reversal of the previous decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53160/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: One of the issues that comes up again and again in regard to assistance of any description in respect of mortgage relief, and in general, is the question of keeping in touch with inflation. That is important and it has to be done but we must be careful always that we do not push inflation further and create a problem when it comes down. For the people who expect relief in that area I know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms Costello.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am. Thank you very much, Acting Chair. My apologies for coming in late and going home early.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, as long as we move the Bill forward as required and approve whatever has to be approved to ensure maximum progress.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: In this particular time, we have an obligation to engage and take into account issues arising outside this jurisdiction, in Europe and the global community. Maybe the Minister of State will make a general comment on that because we have wider responsibilities and cannot retreat into our own little nook and fail to observe that things are happening abroad that some believe we have no...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We need to be cautious and mindful of the events that surrounded us all in this jurisdiction after the financial crash, when stability was a critical issue. We waited every day in this House to see how over European colleagues would react to our requests at the time for solidarity and assistance. It was touch and go for a long time, until the Italian representative came forward with a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: This is an important discussion. Deputy Doherty is right to probe this particular area. We were at the centre of the storm not so many years ago in relation to something of a similar nature, although from different origins. I remember being at a meeting in the oval room where the Commission meets. I think Viscount Davignon was its chair at the time and chaired that meeting. We were...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We will move on.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We are all concerned about liabilities incurred now and in the future. The Minister of State is equally and rightly concerned about it. We do not know the day or the hour when an emergency could arise and all of a sudden we would have a choice to make, either to stand together or stand apart. If we stand apart, we contribute to the dissolution of a powerful financial and economic group....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Do members want to ask any further questions or make final comments?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister of State wish to make any closing remarks?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State and her officials for assisting the committee with its consideration of the Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023 and has not made amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister, Minister of State and their teams. I strongly support the Minister's comments on what happened last Thursday. The remedy some people have to address the issues which they see a need to address is starkly at variance with the national image heretofore. As a nation, we became known as the island of the welcomes. That is in stark contrast to what we saw on our streets...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. I was not referring to the situation he has just mentioned; I was referring to hospital mishaps or conditions incurred while in hospital as a result of which the patient is now on extra medication, extra costs, etc. That applies to people with specific life-changing diseases. They do expect in that situation to be treated slightly differently. The...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to identify the number and variety of drugs under investigation, as is usual, how many are generic, the particular conditions to which they are likely to apply, and how urgently that is issue being dealt with? I am talking about identifying the patient type and profile and accelerating the speed with which they can have access to the new drugs. The testing of drugs is...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, anything. I am also willing to wait if the Minister can do it now.