Results 53,421-53,440 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have tabled four or five questions.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I do not propose to delay the House.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: My question relates to what constitutes a national emergency, who is the activist who co-ordinates it, what is the impeller that drives it and what has to happen before the emergency is faced up to by those with particular responsibility. I think I know the answer to the question myself because I have tabled it several times in the House in the past ten years. Unfortunately, I am afraid of...
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I will, but I have not finished the question.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The final part of the question is whether the Minister can give some indication to the House as to what will happen in the event of a recurrence of the kind of circumstances we have seen since November, through December and after Christmas in order to assure the public-----
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: -----that its concerns and worries and the possible damage to property and loss of life are addressed in a meaningful way by those with statutory responsibility.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: As the Minister is aware, I got the answer to that question at least five years ago. My conclusion then is that nothing would happen and that this is where we would arrive.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have a question on existing and promised legislation. In September and more recently on 10 December, I tabled a question to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the number of persons imprisoned arising from the provisions of various criminal justice Acts passed by this House in the past year. No answer was provided, just a vague answer going around in circles in the usual...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: This is promised legislation.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I am not elaborating. There is a plethora of further legislation on the Order Paper. We were told, and this side of the House agrees, that this legislation was necessary. What has been the effect of that legislation since it was introduced? Will further legislation be required and what is that further legislation? Is it listed on the Order Paper? The bail (amendment) Bill is promised-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have done that already and I have it here. There is no reply.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Adjournment is another matter, as the Ceann Comhairle knows quite well from sitting in this House for a number of years. If a Member is unlucky enough to get a matter on the Adjournment, one may get an invisible Minister or a Minister with no responsibility for that area.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I am not abusing the Order of Business. I am sorry but I must insist on this. For too long in this House we have been subject to this contempt from Ministers and the Government on a daily basis. Some of them do not come into the House. I have received a reply to a parliamentary question suggesting I should write to the Minister. All he has to do is read the newspaper, it has all the...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: What does the Taoiseach mean? Publication is expected.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Is this just a vague reference to fill in space on the Order Paper? It is sad.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear. So much for the Adjournment, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: That is why we have the problems we have.
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Why not? Start the new year on a positive note.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Disgraceful.