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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It will be ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We will go through the list again. In fairness, we want to go with the people who were here all morning and we will then move on to anybody else from the committee who may want to come in. I will first call Deputy Cullinane, who has to go elsewhere. Is that okay? This goes back to Roman times. Even Caesar had to go elsewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We must move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know but we have run out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry but we must have some sort of order. We are well out of time. That encourages everybody else to go over time, which would ensure we remain here until 10 o'clock tonight. We are not going to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That brings us to the end of the engagement. I just want to make a couple of quick comments. I do not necessarily want responses, but I would like the comments to be absorbed into the system. Perhaps we can get a response at a later stage. What was it the former US Secretary of Defense used to say? There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. He followed that around to infinity. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No. The Deputy has the added advantage of having been inside the system. As a former Minister of State, who worked in the system, she knows where there is potential but it is not as simple as she has made it out to be from time to time. Home help is an extremely difficult and demanding service because the people who expect the service are waiting on a daily basis and people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The next speaker is Senator Kyne.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this particularly sensitive and important issue in the House at this time. I am aware a meeting took place this evening at about 5 p.m. but unfortunately we could not be in the two places; bilocation is not one of our achievements just yet. However, a continued discussion took place at that meeting between the Office of Public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for the update. I recognise that we were all here all evening and that it was not possible to get the updated position otherwise. The situation is simply this. The local residents who have not agreed to the protocol at this stage are really concerned. They are concerned about Castletown House itself and they want to ensure the works to restore it and that its...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on the issue of investment in healthcare. There are many facets to it and many demands because it is demand-driven. I have raised this issue on numerous occasions. Every year after the budget, the question has always been to ask the Minister for Health to indicate whether the budget allocation for his Department...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The spectacular absence of the voice of the child continues in family law discussions, debates and deliberations throughout this country, despite the Minister's correct intention and indication that reforms are promised at the end of this year or in early next year, and despite the fact the people of this country passed a referendum underwriting the rights of the child and the need for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The voice of the child is the dominant one in this situation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will the Minister indicate the three most commonly identified causes for dropouts from higher education? To what extent is it possible to address the issue in the context of providing graduates in the future?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Research and Training (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, I am happy so far.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to promote Ireland as an attractive holiday location through the arts, sports and culture given the particular market that exists in these areas at the present time; the extent to which it is expected for this to be of benefit to the hotel and catering sectors, on and off season; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects to allocate funds under the major or minor grants/schemes administered by her Department; the extent to which she can assist communities where cost overruns due to Covid are affecting projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45649/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which a continuous supply of graduates in the academic and technical areas is provided for in order to meet requirements of industry and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45641/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which provision is being made or will be made to meet the full requirement of student accommodation adjacent to schools or colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45640/23]