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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It will give encouragement to all those of us seeking to achieve the targets and make a positive contribution, including agriculture and industry. It is very important to acknowledge this to the various sectors.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which progress towards emission targets are being met in such a way as to achieve the desired result without damage to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41803/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ensure that we do not panic about achieving emission targets on the basis that we have made considerable progress in recent years. If one looks at the transport system, in particular the buses of 20 years ago that moved away from the bus stops in a cloud of smoke, that has all been eliminated. Will the Minister of State comment on this?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is abusing the House and he knows that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: We will move on. We must back track as we have found the necessary authorisation for Question No. 73.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: Absolutely, but you would want-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: No across the room talk. I am sorry. Do not try that old trick that has been tried too often in this House, where you drag in the question and the answer and we have a conversation. The Minister to reply. That is it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: Please, no more interruptions.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: We could stay here forever and never get through parliamentary questions if we continued like that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: I know, but the quality of the answer is not in the hands of the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our witnesses and the supporters and families who have been affected. We have to extend our sincere sympathy to the patients who were affected and to the families who are bereaved. Far too often, we find ourselves at this juncture, which is particularly sad when the lives of children are affected. I do not wish to blame anyone. I want to be factual about this. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: When it became obvious that something was wrong-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: But is there some control whereby the procedures proposed are approved by somebody in authority, or could the patient be part of an experiment? When this issue was first discovered, why was it not made known immediately to the Minister, the families and this committee, all of whom were asking questions? We know that the families were asking questions and were concerned. Why did that not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Bernard Durkan: Could it happen again?