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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 39 to 45, inclusive, 48 and 51 are related and will be discussed together.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education will next meet. [41577/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Amendment Nos. 52 and 53 are in the name of Deputy Joan Collins, however she is not present and so the amendments fall.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State and her officials for their attendance and assistance to the select committee with our consideration of the Bill.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I again thank the Minister of State and her officials, members of the select committee and members of the public and credit unions for their attendance and their patience in dealing with a matter of very serious importance today. I thank our own officials as well.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 102, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto. Under Standing Order 100(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their dedication and report. I want to clear up a couple of things. There was a suggestion in some of the responses we got that politicians were not possessed of knowledge of the real issues to deal with this subject, which I believe in the first instance is an issue of women's health. I reject any suggestion that as elected representatives we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Have we evidence of where they did not advise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What of cases where they did not advise because of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, that is not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No disrespect to other jurisdictions, but we also have our jurisdiction and our Constitution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We must be absolutely certain that we abide by that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know, but I had to wait a long time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am aware.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We can improve them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is working to ensure that every child has a school place at primary and second level in Kildare North and throughout the country at large with particular reference to children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45020/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she will ensure the widest possible availability of school transport in Kildare north, with particular reference to the ongoing issues that have arisen in this area at the beginning of each academic year in the past three years to date where some children who have previously had concessionary tickets have been refused the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Labour Market (17 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of persons currently employed in the manufacturing sector throughout the country; and the extent to which this number has fluctuated over the past ten years [44576/23]