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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I want to resume my seat and I want to be in order. I ask that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle allow the Taoiseach to answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: The issue is already in the public arena.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to allow the Taoiseach to comment.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but it is not out of order.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach wants to answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I have resumed my seat and I want to be in order.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: But they have been brought up before.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: They have been brought up before.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I want to raise an issue I have raised a couple of times already in this House over recent weeks, which is the increasing reliance in the family law courts on very subjective section 47 reports. This has resulted in the removal of children from the custody of their mother in appalling circumstances. The Garda was ordered by the court to enter to the classroom-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle hears me out, she might understand why I am saying it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: It resulted in the removal of the children, in that callous fashion, and placed them in the custody of their-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: -----other parent, who was previously-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise. There is only move left for me now. I can only do one thing.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: All right. I will table a motion in the House-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: -----asking for the removal of the offending officer of the court-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: -----from the Bench.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry. There is precedent for this matter to be raised in the House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I agree entirely with the Chairman. I was one of the first people in this House to take issue with this directive. Other colleagues at the time said they did not know about this directive. They did not know about it, but it is there. I find it unfair because those who fall into this category, such as politicians and their families and associates, are treated more stringently and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Bernard Durkan: I will be happy to hear a response to my outburst. It is not something I oppose lightly. I opposed it from the beginning. Family members opposed it too. They feel that they should not be accused because somebody in a high vaulted tower accuses me, for example. I do not encourage and I do not involve myself in any kind of financial manipulation. If anyone wants to accuse me of that, let...