Results 681-700 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Like Deputy MacSharry, I am a former member of the Committee of Public Accounts. I was a member for 15 years, for my undoubtedly very long list of sins. I also am a former Minister of State so I have a bit of knowledge in that area. I also am Vice Chairman of this committee. In that context, I will raise a couple of questions which I am led to believe I have a right to be concerned about...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Today I wish to bring to the attention of the House the bullying and aggression adopted by vulture funds in pursuit of homeowners who have had their mortgages sold on to those funds for reasons I will not go into now. The funds are totally impervious to the attitudes of third-party representatives, including public representatives, and are interested in only one thing, namely pursuing their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I have a question on the grills. At the time of the announcement that the grills were wrong, who decided they were wrong? Where they specified in the original specification as round or square grills for air extraction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Was all that provided for in the contract? For instance, if windows in a house or a block of houses are moved, that must be provided for in the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: So, was it provided for in the contract or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am asking if it was extra to the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: At the time of the announcement that the grills were not the appropriate grills, I presume the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board blamed the contractor and the contractor blamed the board. Would that be right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I say that because it was stated publicly in the media that this would set back the opening date of the hospital by a considerable time. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Following on from the previous question by Deputy Lahart, it only took a very short time for the two sides to get together and work out what was required to resolve the problem in accordance with requirements set down by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the contractor. Is that true?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Before any alarm was set off, for want of a better term, about the suitability of the grills, would it not have been better to sit down quietly with each other and work out a solution rather than trying to exaggerate the difficulty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Whose fault was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That was a tremendous achievement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: -----without any of the hoo-ha about its setting the development back by a year and all that kind of thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I want to concentrate on one other question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It was resolved at the time and given the degree to which the contractor will continue to allege it costs €25 million, what was the actual cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is noted and I am sure it will be used as appropriate. Is it true that the contractor essentially went off-site during the Covid pandemic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In the period before and after the Covid pandemic, by how much did construction costs in the country increase generally?