Results 47,241-47,260 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that sufficient provision is being made in terms of skills, equipment and aircraft and sea going vessels to provide the highest level of coastal surveillance and air/sea rescue services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25269/11]
- Defence Forces Review (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Defence if he accepts the need to maintain the strength, standard of equipment and readiness of the Defence Forces at all times notwithstanding financial curtailments arising from the EU-IMF bailout and having particular regard to the reliance on the Defence Forces in cases of emergency, natural disasters or terrorist activity; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Review (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. He has indicated there have been repeated questions from Members in this respect. Does he accept that in times of economic difficulty there was always a tendency for the Defence Forces to become victims of financial constraints? Given the reliance on them in the past 12 months, in particular, does the Minister agree that it is imperative...
- Defence Forces Review (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his extended reply. I welcome his commitment to ensure the Defence Forces are kept at maximum strength and have the maximum level of required equipment. He can be assured of the support of Members of the House, particularly those of us who come from a constituency with a military tradition. If he requires the assistance of Members across the House during the course...
- Defence Forces Review (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: He will find us most willing.
- Overseas Missions (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions he has had with EU-UN colleagues in the matter of ongoing or further deployment of the Defence Forces overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25044/11]
- Overseas Missions (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. We can join him in congratulating the Defence Forces, particularly given the high esteem in which they are held and the manner in which they discharge their duties worldwide. Notwithstanding the straitened economic circumstances in which we find ourselves, would it be helpful, given their experience, to, at least, keep open the prospect of...
- Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: They need to come up with new questions.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy signed up to this six months ago.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Neither are you.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: There is rhetoric in training here now.
- Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: When might it be expected that the Bill to consolidate and amend the bail laws will be published and brought before the House? When can we expect the proposed legislation to strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau on forfeiting the proceeds of crime? Now might be a good time to expedite that legislation.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: It is difficult to cover the length and breadth of the subject in the course of seven or eight minutes.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: We will do our best. I was commenting last night on the changing situation and the debate in this House over recent months where, depending on which side of the House one is on, one hears a different side of the story. There are those who repeatedly state that we should burn the bondholders, refuse to pay and default, and every day on the Order of Business every opportunity is used to state...
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Supported by some Independent Deputies.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: That is the group that supported the previous Government.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: We are not responsible now, are we not?
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy McGrath was there.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Will Deputy McGrath accept his share of the responsibility for the problem?
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2011)
Bernard Durkan: Independents supported the previous Government, the Administration that scuppered the country.