Results 781-800 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: A new aggression has been adopted by what I call the enforcers in the funds or agencies right now. They apparently feel the time has come for them to show real resolution in their efforts to ensure the borrower coughs up, sells their home, gets out on the road and becomes homeless or whatever the case may be. The level of aggression that has taken over in recent months is unacceptable....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise to the Chair for dragging this out but the members of this committee, individually and jointly, raised multiples of the kinds of cases Mr. Carville just spoke about at this committee. Individually and collectively, we fought to draw attention to umpteen cases where a disadvantage was clearly being foisted upon the borrowers who, in many circumstances, were unable to pay and took...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I do not want to dismiss what Mr. Carville is saying, but the Cathaoirleach and Deputy Doherty, who have raised these questions in this forum many times will tell him the position. There were countless cases in which people were not given a fair chance to recover or trade their way out of the situations they were in. Conditions were foisted upon people that they could meet. Arrangements and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and congratulate them on the indicative progress at all levels, which is very welcome. Like the Chairman, I have had personal experience of our hospital services in recent times. I was really impressed with the manner in which everybody, from orderlies to consultants to everybody else involved, fulfilled their duties. We should mention also the number of foreign-born...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: They are gone. I could go for another ten minutes if the Chair wants me to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I know the Chair is anxious that I would-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: The questions I asked in the first round were seen as comments. I would like to go back to the scoliosis issue, however. We need to deal with that firmly and quickly. We also need a response from this meeting and any other meetings to indicate precisely what it is intended to do. We can come to all the meetings we want and raise the issues again and again. The people expect to see...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It must have been a secret meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am not in favour of secret meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I do not want to interrupt, and I know Mr. Gloster is trying to be helpful, but the site was already available. Somebody decided, "No, we will have a consultation with builders", and so on. There is only so much of that kind of nonsense that can be tolerated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: And Naas General Hospital in that context.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Yes, there has to be.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport can issue in time for travel on 21 September in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36202/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in the determination of an application for a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36685/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the information missing from the passport application by a person (details supplied) to conclude that the application was incomplete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36809/24]