Results 42,261-42,280 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: -----Deputy Shane Ross on his new found environment. On a serous matter, yesterday, along with a number of other Members, I raised the question of the bail Bill.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: This is in a different context.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: I am referring to the criminal justice (victims' rights) Bill and the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill. In view of the concern expressed by the Taoiseach yesterday on this serious issue, may I ask him again if it might be possible to bring forward one of those Bills as a matter of urgency in order to deal with the serious and compelling issue that has arisen in the past few days?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to meet his budgetary targets in 2013 having regard to progress made to date and the options available to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3056/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has compared the performance of the various Government Departments and or bodies under their aegis in their respective endeavours towards public expenditure reduction; if he has identified any particular Department and or sectors capable of greater effort in this context; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he has identified the Departments and or bodies under their aegis throughout the public sector that have so far contributed most towards meeting the budgetary targets set in the Memorandum of Understanding; if cognisance is likely to be taken of their efforts in this regard in current and future years; and if he will...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the targets in respect of public expenditure reform and or the elimination of waste and duplication throughout the public service have been achieved in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3299/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which reforms throughout the public service have contributed to cost reductions in each of the past two years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3300/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which pay cuts, reform and the elimination of waste have each contributed to cost-cutting required in accordance with necessary economies arising from the economic situation inherited from his predecessors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3301/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the various reforms, savings and cost-cutting undertaken to date are in accord with the expectations and approval of the Troika; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3302/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the factors featuring most prominently as being obstacles in his efforts to achieve savings throughout various Government Departments and their respective subordinate bodies or agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3305/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which pay and conditions in the public sector here have reformed in line with our EU, Eurozone and non-Eurozone partner; the extent to which cost of living comparisons have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3297/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the numbers employed throughout the public sector in respect of each Government Department and bodies under their aegis have been reduced in each year to date since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3298/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Numbers (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that staff reductions brought about by compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed by his predecessors with particular reference to sensitive frontline public services are not likely to damage the integrity and efficacy of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3303/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Indemnity (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has identified various forms of insurance cover affecting the State and or its institutions as a means of achieving savings to the Exchequer; the extent to which group insurance policies can be utilised for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3304/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he can, in the context of budgetary curtailments in the current year, rely on revised working hours as a possible alternative to salary or wage cuts in view of the fact that the public already have considerable commitments by way of financial outgoings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3057/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (23 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 502 of the 16 of January 2013, the applicant failed to give a true and accurate account of their circumstances in respect of their application for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3150/13]
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: May I ask the Taoiseach a question on promised legislation? In view of the recent interest in bail and the need for the Judiciary to have the option of remanding prisoners in custody - particularly those who have confessed to a crime - as opposed to remanding them on bail-----
- Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)
Bernard Durkan: It is the bail Bill, which I have raised on countless occasions over the past ten years.