Results 38,181-38,200 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum nursing home support available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the case will be re-examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4800/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate the full extent of support available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4801/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 218. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4802/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Minister for Health when medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review entitlement to a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4804/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration for entitlement to a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4805/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Over the years there have been instances of passports lost or stolen and in one or two spectacular cases the Israeli Government acquired - for want of a better description - Irish passports. Have any of those passports ever turned up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I asked whether the passports that were stolen, sold or misappropriated ever reappeared.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I ask the Chairman to note that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: In France, the description is of a Member of the House of Deputies or a Member of the Senate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The description in French in our passports is "Member of Parliament".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: No. If one is going to French-speaking Quebec they know who we are all right but I have not been there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: What is Mr. Nugent's definition of a change of hairstyle? Is it with a different colour, a pink tint?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the visitors for their presentations. There has been a considerable improvement in the administration of passports over the past number of years. I note the demand is greater and it is where a member of the public finds himself or herself in an emergency that we must plan for to a greater extent that we have. Occasionally, a constituent, when everything else is ready for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: It is an issue. Nobody kicks up a row about it, but I cannot understand it. I have been inquiring about this for years. On one occasion somebody cynically asked was I wishing to change it, and "Yes" is the answer. If the professional description is in French as it should be and in Irish as it should be - I have a problem not with the Irish version but with the English version - why do we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Would the Chairman say that again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: If one were in an English-speaking country, such as Canada or Australia, they do not know what a Teachta Dála is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of the Passport Office (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: We are well known but not that well known.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Apropos of that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Bernard Durkan: There is a need to organise internally all the meetings that take place with a view to ensure that we are not in three places at the one time because there are far less committees than there were in the previous Dáil. We were all members of more committees previously and were able to attend them.