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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...a doctor, a pharmacist or any other body for that matter has the right to attend anonymously. They should not have to salute or kowtow to any other organisations outside once the law of the land has been observed. While people might say they have the right to protest, it is not to the extent that it impedes access to a service, whatever that service may be. I would like to hear the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It will be. There is a danger that we might transfer our policy of growing forestry to otherwise productive agricultural land. Trees would grow there more quickly, but this would reduce space for growing food and we would not be able to transfer the land back in one year's time or ten years' time. We will not be able to recover it because land does not work that way. We may find ourselves...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (23 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...refugees and asylum seekers. Deputy Brian Stanley - to discuss efforts to reduce energy costs for consumers. Deputy Barry Cowen - to discuss reviewing the terms and conditions surrounding Bord na Móna lands holdings so that they can be made available for other public projects. Deputies Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis - to discuss the Connolly Children Urgent Care Centre moving from an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...to allow the water to flow away, which it did. That needs to be noted. We are all on for rewetting now. It should be done in areas that are marginal so that we do not decommission food producing land or land for agricultural purposes. I have also noticed that areas near rivers, especially small rivers, are being allowed to fall into ruin, for want of a better description, and weeds,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ..., apropos of nothing but apropos of everything, I am interested in those that did not have faults, those whose construction was in keeping with the best possible standards and where no liability landed on the State afterwards. How do we proceed in that regard in terms of equality of treatment? For example, what if I were involved in large construction contracts and decided that I was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I commend the Taoiseach on the discussions he has already had. The time involved in the discussion on the Northern Ireland protocol is important. It cannot remain static, immovable or unmoved for a considerable period, considering the extent to which the European Union supported the calls to prevent land borders in this country, the need to address the pressing issues from the point of view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Economic Issues: Engagement with Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will Mr. Makhlouf wait until I am finished? What is to stop them from buying up the most agriculturally productive land in the country? They will hardly buy swamps when they are getting involved in this. We talk about rewetting on one hand and rewilding on the other hand, some of which we have to do. We have a lot of wetting and wilding done already. How will they be regulated in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Economic Issues: Engagement with Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, say, if I was a vulture fund and I was going to buy property all over the country, I would buy the most valuable and lucrative assets. I would not buy swamp land or something like that. It could, however, reduce the ability of the productive sector to produce what it produces best which is food. I will have more to say some another time as will the...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...other, not one at the cost of the other. I hear talk of rewilding, but enough of this country is wild already. Enough of it is forlorn, desolate and wild. There are many thousands of acres of such land across the country. Those of us who come from rural Ireland know that full well. Much of it is not productive or arable and people trying to eke out an existence on it find themselves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...onto a street or a road and identify where services of a particular nature are being provided. This is provided that those services are legal and that they are being provided by the law of the land, which these are. I would not like to see a situation or a loophole whereby the intention to protect these people might also be a means of highlighting the service for the benefit of the protestor.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...for decorative purposes at certain times of the year, for food purposes, and for wood purposes when their lifespan has dissipated. Has any evaluation been done of the utilisation of wasteland, headlands, corners of fields or otherwise inoperable situations from an agriculture point of view? How can such lands can be utilised beneficially?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: .... It would be helpful if the Minister of State were more specific in advertising what is best in these kinds of environments so the farming community can consider tree-growing on ordinary farmland and headlands, and also in corners that are sometimes not suited to farming. Such land could be used for tree-growing.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each local authority might be required to provide a specified number of local authority houses on publicly owned lands in the shortest time possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60068/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...going to happen is the people who go into the houses are going to have to fork out for that at some stage. On the other hand, if the purpose of the exercise is to encourage people who have zoned land to get rid of it, by getting houses built and so on and so forth, that is a different thing. There are two totally different purposes envisaged there. One is to encourage the owner of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...select the area that does not affect their own constituency or electorate. Nothing has changed and things continue as before. I was listening with some interest to the recommendation on land zoning. There were three reports, the Wright report, the Kenny report and the McKinsey report, which dealt with the issue. One was about shifting huge populations, such as when building Tallaght,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his Department continues to advise the farming community regarding optimum levels of fertiliser permissible, in order to meet land fertility requirements and emission reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53550/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ..., a friend or an associate of a public representative is on to something as well. That kind of allegation has often been made around the House, as we know, when one party or another wants to land a slur on somebody else. The matter under discussion today, however, is in the real world. To presume that we are potentially guilty of something is, to my mind, a violation of our rights and a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...the extent to which efforts are being made to control house price inflation including the possibility of having the local authorities engage builders to build public housing on State-owned lands to facilitate local authority and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department has identified issues deemed to impede the provision of much-needed affordable housing on State lands throughout the country; if he expects to be in a position to address the issue in due course; if the issues that currently impede a speedy and efficient public authority response to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Mahon tribunal, I cannot understand how they would have such influence at present. Oireachtas Members are not members of local authorities and have no function in the matter. The GDPR was landed upon us all without warning. I opposed it in principle because it was sprung upon the Oireachtas on the basis that it had to be. It was a decision made somewhere else. It is now being...