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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I was inquiring about the difference, or whether there is a difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is Mr Devane happy that he has the ways and means of controlling the element to which he referred and that he is making progress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I have a question on the filling of posts. It has been an issue as long as I have been around, which is a while. A number of us were previously members of the Eastern Health Board. We learned whatever skills we have there, or did not learn them as the case may be. Why is it not possible for the HSE to identify the most important and fundamental posts to be filled, so that we will not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to identify the pinch points at the beginning of the year and decide to deal with them first and talk about it afterwards, rather than not dealing with them until it becomes a talking point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: And we will. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It wants fixing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Should it not be a given that the board represents patients or the patient voice in every aspect of it and that there is no suggestion in any quarter of somebody deciding to ignore a patient or a culture ignoring patients or patient's needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and congratulate them on the tremendous work they are doing all over the country, including in my own constituency at the Little Way Cancer Support Centre in Clane, County Kildare, which has done tremendous work over the years. The secret to the centres' success is that they are community-based and that they arose out of necessity. From the beginning, it was recognised...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [22708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a request to sanction the summer programme for one week for eight classes was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); if this school’s case can be examined at the earliest opportunity, with a view to ensuring a consensus to run at least a week’s programme given the importance of the school to local children...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in progressing an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24259/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That concludes Question Time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We have no time left, I am sorry to say, but we have covered the widest spectrum of questions during the course of the debate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We have an unusual situation. There are two Deputies with two questions each. One Deputy was not in the House at the time the first question came up. I propose to take them all, if possible. Deputy Canney was here on time for his questions. Is it agreed that we take his questions now? Agreed. We will then follow up with the ones that were not asked at the time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is about temporary accommodation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Question No. 32 is in the name of the same Deputy. There might be a difficulty with the answer but we did not anticipate being so far advanced at this stage. The Minister is so efficient she is ahead of herself.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she and her Department expect to be in a position to improve school transport serving primary and second level schools throughout north Kildare and countrywide in line with the enrolment requirements and admissions for September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23854/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to alert the Minister of the need to deal with the issue of school transport. Difficulties have arisen in relation to the availability of school places. It has become necessary for some parents to drop their children to school and pick them up. This involves four trips for parents in the day and in some cases, to more than one school, which makes life extremely...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I know she has made huge efforts to try to improve the school transport system where voids occur. Given the information the Minister has given to the House might it be possible, in the circumstances likely to emerge in the not-too-distant future, to introduce a little bit of flexibility into the system in order to ensure the various dots are joined up?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her helpful reply and I acknowledge the tremendous investment in education in County Kildare in school buildings in particular and in improving standards generally. We all came through the time when it was not so. We are anxious to ascertain certain things. For instance, Mercy Convent in Naas appears to be completed in terms of building works, but is not. It is...