Results 62,561-62,580 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he expects to provide the necessary funding to the various local authorities in County Kildare in the coming years to meet the accommodation requests of all those on housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28935/07]
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: My heart goes out to the Deputy.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Sadly, the Deputy will not be able to continue ridiculing Fine Gael.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: That is right.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister will get dizzy.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: And handbrake turns.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Punctures.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Suspended in time.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kennedy should be careful. Fianna Fáil tried wooing previously.
- Transport 21: Statements. (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: They are hugging trees.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: We will teach the Deputy about maths very shortly.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: It is difficult to understand how it is being spent.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: That is called pie in the sky. It has not been achieved yet. It is futuristic.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is suffering from post-election stress.
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Fair play to Fagans.
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: Only a couple of years have elapsed since the then Minister, who is now the Minister for Transport, introduced a Bill before this House to abolish the dual mandate. He almost cried in the House, such was his dedication to the task before him and his sincerity regarding how in future, all matters that had been under the Minister's control previously and for which the Minister was accountable...
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: The Acting Chairman will find this to be a graphic example and if he allows me to finish he will be pleased with the manner in which I intend to put it. The Minister correctly made the decision as to how the system would operate in future. The Acting Chairman knows I am correct in this regard. Having so done, Members are entitled to consider him to have correctly exercised his powers....
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Nov 2007)
Bernard Durkan: However, this scenario is similar to the amendment in that it constitutes a transfer of powers to another body. Members rightly query the meaning of this development. Does it entail a diminution of the entitlement of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to raise questions on any or all of these issues?