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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland continues to make progress towards meeting climate change issues with particular reference to flooding prevention, land drainage or management and any other issues of potential positive impact in meeting the various climate challenges in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which measures to meet climate challenges are successful, and if there is available to the public some scientific evidence to indicate that their efforts are being rewarded and that, if continued, their efforts will be of benefit.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am also thinking that in order to succeed in any such situation there needs to be evidence available to support the concept. We have, for example, for want of a better word, flashpoints around the country where severe flooding takes place and has taken place again and again. We call it a hundred year flood or whatever it is. The fact is that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Some years ago, Maynooth, County Kildare was scheduled to have a brand new swimming pool and various contributions were raised between the local authority, the local community and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. Recently, I heard voices in the long grass to the extent that the proposal was not as warm as it had been in the past. The town has a population of 20,000 with approximately 20,000...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Taoiseach.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State. Next, I call Deputies Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle, who are sharing ten minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is Deputy Harkin sharing her time?

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy following Deputy Harkin has five minutes.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Connolly to speak now, please.

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I congratulate the Minister of State on her new position and responsibility. It is a very serious and senior position with a lot of responsibility and issues that need very urgent attention and results in a short space of time. Right across County Kildare, north and south but particularly in north Kildare, there is huge...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent conversation with the British Prime Minister. [16765/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [19205/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The spectre of parental alienation still roams across the country and is being used regularly to inflict the maximum amount of punishment on parents and children and continues to be used with increased vigour. I have been promised by the Minister for Justice, who is well-meaning, that she will deliver with regard to a change in regulations to prevent this atrocity from happening. Will the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Make an apology.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Again I raise the issue of the continued use of the concept of parental alienation in family law, which has no basis in Irish law whatsoever, is in violation of the Constitution and the rights of the child and is continually abusing the rights of parents - mothers and fathers - and children, who are being psychologically damaged by the continued use of this. I ask that every effort be made....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister and welcome his reply. I am thinking also of the most urgent requirements that have been urgent for a number of years such as, for instance, the Derry road which was mentioned in respect of another tragic accident overnight. There are several other projects like that, which we have talked about and where we put forward the various reasons they are an urgent necessity....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I again thank the Minister and note his warning in that regard. I wonder if it is possible to take any steps to avert, in so far as possible, the possibility of interventions or obstacles that might lead to delays of any nature.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which progress on the national development plan remains within expectations; whether any measures are needed to ensure the meeting of targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19768/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am seeking an up-to-date position on the strategic development requirements in education, roads, transport, agriculture and drainage, whether arterial or otherwise, and the degree to which it will be possible to meet the targets within the time identified.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Targets (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will ask the Minister about the degree to which inflation has been a contributory factor in the year to date and is likely to continue in the future. What are the sources of that inflation if it is impacting?