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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for having been absent but I am interested in the debate. A few points come to my mind. On the last subject raised, people are going to, and will wish to, work for longer. They will need to do so because they are living longer. The natural corollary is that they will continue to work. It would be difficult to sell to the people who are the voters - the voters count - the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Central Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for addressing the committee. First, I would like to know the attitude to companies from outside this jurisdiction coming in here and offering insurance that is often at cut prices and is detrimental to the industry. In more than one case, companies have returned to their homelands when the damage has been done. What is the attitude of the Central Bank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Central Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Our guests might comment on price walking and the possibility of an increase in insurance premiums as a result of the ban.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Central Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My next question relates to the rangers, as I call them, that provide services from outside the jurisdiction. Does the Central Bank operate a monitoring process to be able to identify, for instance, dangerous trading practices? I refer not necessarily to reckless trading but that which might be regarded as a trading practice that would require attention or could lead to difficulties further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Central Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is the supervisory regime in this jurisdiction as alert and incisive as those that are applicable in other EU states or in the general EU policy? People have had difficulties in obtaining public liability insurance. Have those issues been resolved to the extent desired or is there still an overhang that might come back into focus? Finally, is there a precise definition of "business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Central Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My colleagues might follow up on some of those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My apologies for missing the initial statements. There are two or three issues I want to run past the witnesses. I have raised questions before with KBC and the same applies to Ulster Bank. Both banks are retaining an interest in Ireland. I think the question may have been answered before I joined the meeting. Can I be assured as to what the interest is for, and that it is not for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am still a little at sea but more about that later. I should mention I am a customer of the bank and have been for many years. In the business I am in, where we start at 8 a.m. or 8.30 a.m. and finish at 1 a.m. the following morning, one does not get the chance to call into the bank very often. However, I called in recently to close the account and offered to pay off any outstanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: That has been very helpful because in fact I thought it was not going to be possible to close the account even though I wanted to clear it. I did clear it, as it happens. The next thing that happened was the charge came up and then another charge came up. One wonders whether it possible to extinguish an account. I thank Ms Howard for her response. It explained the situation. We shall...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister to the committee. When does he expect the entire process to be completed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: From the Minister's observations to date and the preliminary review, has he noticed whether the Act is operating in accordance with the original intentions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: There could be a problem. For example, the legislation was passed in good faith, with the widest possible consultation of the Irish people. The legislation was published in advance of a referendum. It carried considerable weight. Does the Minister expect, as a result of this review or by whatever means, the legislation will be applied universally, across the country, and that there will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: How is my time, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is my time up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am just testing you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister's reply alarms me to the effect that no matter how good the legislation is or how wide the consultation was and whatever the intentions were, for some unknown reason by virtue of numerous ways and means, it has been possible to frustrate the objectives of the legislation. That is not acceptable. I think the Minister would agree. Is that acceptable, to his mind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister believe, following this consultation period and what happens thereafter, the objectives of the Act can be achieved in full without intermittent operation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible and intended to provide, throughout the regions, the service that is being denied women in some cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Do we know from the information already available to us and the Minister, in respect of the cases of women who travelled to the UK, their reasons for travelling? Was it because the services anticipated in the Act were not available, were restricted or whatever?