Results 45,921-45,940 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 994: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to reconfigure the operational structures of the health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1609/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 985: To ask the Minister for Health the number of policy decisions taken to close hospital wards or decommission beds throughout the country in each of the past three years to date in 2012; the administrative level at which such decisions were taken in the Health Service Executive, his Department or at ministerial level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1600/12]
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 987: To ask the Minister for Health the extent if any to which general hospitals bed accommodation in the public sector has fluctuated in the course of each of the past four years to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1602/12]
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 986: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of public nursing home wards closed or beds decommissioned in each of the past two years to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1601/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 988: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing staff employed on an agency basis throughout the public health sector annually in the past three years to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1603/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 989: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing staff other than agency staff employed throughout the public health sector on a part-time, temporary or otherwise than on permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1604/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 990: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of junior hospital doctors required on an annual basis throughout the public health sector; the extent to which this requirement can be matched to the number of doctors graduating on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1605/12]
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Question 991: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of beds available in public nursing homes has been reduced on an annual basis over the past five years to date in 2012; the reason or reasons for any such reduction, whether the lack of adequate annual maintenance was or is a factor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1606/12]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: Happy new year, Deputy. Cheer up.
- Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: He could try it though.
- Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
Bernard Durkan: I note that the national vetting bureau Bill is on the A list of promised legislation. Is it expected to be passed during this session? The land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill is on the C list, with publication expected in 2012. Given the multitude of conveyancing issues that have arisen in recent times, is that legislation likely to be brought before the House as a matter of...
- Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy McGrath is a good teacher.
- Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: It is only ten months since the change of Government, Mattie.
- Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Be patient.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: All my life it has been that way, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: I merely wish to extend season's greetings to the Chair.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: I promise I will not raise any issue on the Order of Business for the next two and a half weeks.
- Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has available to her a full register of all children in residential, custodial or foster care; the extent to which she has oversight in all such situations with a view to ensuring that full protection and compliance procedures are in place and observed in all circumstances; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (15 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which she expects to have sufficient resources available to her in the coming year to meet ongoing or new requirements under various headings; if she will outline her priorities arising therefrom notwithstanding the ongoing economic situation but recognising the need to respond to the requirements of children and...
- Written Answers — Disabled Drivers: Disabled Drivers (15 Dec 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if and or when an application for a primary medical certificate is likely to be considered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40716/11]