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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My next question is on choice for women. I have discussed this with a number of women because obviously they are better able to tell me about these things. Some women have a preference for breastfeeding but some do not. To what degree have the organisations accommodated both views, and can they accommodate both, yet at the same time provide the service that the organisations have in mind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Some women may or may not agree with that, which is something that I have picked up in the course of my own inquiries. I am a little concerned that women would feel hustled into a situation. I would like to see a situation whereby women had a choice. I mean that all of the information that is needed would be made available to women to enable them to make an informed choice and that is what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I stand corrected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witness as it is very important a woman should be able to acknowledge and assess the available information to make up her own mind on what is best for her, taking into account that helpful information. I thank the witnesses.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Human Rights (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I ask that he utilise Ireland's position and his own to pursue the issues to which he has just referred in a way that makes it clear to the perpetrators that there is an end to all this, that there is retribution and that there will be justice for the victims in these cases. I did not refer to the antics of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Human Rights (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise this important issue, coming as it does after the debate we have just had during Question Time. It is very appropriate and I thank the Minister for being in the House to reply. Over the past year, in particular, when the global community has been preoccupied with the fight against Covid-19, it is quite understandable that issues of a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: On a point of order-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: To be fair to everybody and enable everybody from all sides of the House and from all parties to have an opportunity to raise issues close to their hearts at the time of the Order of Business, would it be possible to encourage those who agree with the Business Committee's proposals to agree to them in the House, thus eliminating the erosion of other parties' time?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the provisions put in place in the context of Brexit continue to effectively cater for the situation arising in the aftermath of the departure of the UK from the EU; if specific or unforeseen issues that have arisen are being or can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3972/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland might utilise its position on the UN Security Council to encourage a rejuvenation of the structures of the UN in order to restore its influence in dealing with peacekeeping needs, natural disasters, famine and starvation, ethnic cleansing, international conflict and human rights abuses globally in order to have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2021 (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied that budgetary targets set earlier in 2021 will continue to be met notwithstanding any changes in circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2021 (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has identified any particular issues which might impact on his Department’s ability to implement principles of reform to facilitate achievement of spending targets; if particular obstacles have arisen in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2021 (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has identified issues likely to impede progress toward objectives set for and by his Department in respect of public expenditure and reform; if such obstacles have been identified and isolated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23720/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2021 (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which provisions or policies most likely to achieve benefit to the Exchequer and the taxpayer in 2021 are continuing on target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23722/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he expects reform to remain a central part of his Department’s policy; the extent to which this is likely to manifest itself in 2021 and thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23721/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 411. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passport applications received by the Passport Office prior to Covid-19 restrictions are due to be processed; when the Passport Office is due to reopen to the public under the roadmap for reopening society and business; the estimated date for the reopening of passport applications online; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he can influence the international community to focus on various war zones globally and encourage the UN to take a positive stance in order to protect civilians with particular reference to women and children; if he can foresee a situation whereby the UN can reclaim its position as a peacekeeper and peace enforcer at...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 380. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which through the EU or UN he expects to be in a position to alert the international community to the violence against women and children, incidents of genocide, ethnic cleansing, sexual abuse and trafficking of women and children in the course of various conflicts; if he will influence the UN to intervene in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to influence the international community to make provision for the elimination of trafficking and violence against women and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24682/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to monitor development in Northern Ireland arising from Brexit or the Good Friday Agreement with particular reference to the need to ensure a cohesive and progressive approach with the objective of varying the spirit and the letter of the peace process working with the various political groupings in...