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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It might be argued that, counter to that, we are not getting the answers we want. There is always subjectivity to questions and answers. If I get the answers I want, it may be okay. We will continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I would like to come back on it too. Do not worry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Do not name the company. We cannot name individual companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We cannot name individual companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: How can we influence the Russians if they are participating in something like that and it boils over? The war in the Balkans is a fairly recent example. I do not believe it could have been resolved other than by the use of a force beyond the control of Miloševi that was able to impress upon him and his colleagues that they could not go on as they were and that it would not be allowed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the professor for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I do not think it is a question of the commission or the commissioners setting out to undermine democracy in the European Union or anywhere else for that matter. The UN has lost a considerable amount of its prestige and power by virtue of what happened in the western Balkans. Once that contingent stepped down in the face of a superior force, the UN lost the initiative at that stage and has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is not the reason for that. For other reasons, membership of our Defence Forces in this country has reduced over the years. For economic reasons, there were alternatives. If people are poor and looking for jobs, they will do whatever they feel they have to do at that particular time. That is not the way it should be but it is the way it is. On the other hand, in a situation, which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That concludes today's first session. I thank our witnesses and members for their engagement. We must now suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses in the second session to take their places. I thank the witnesses and members for coming to the meeting today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: During this session, we will engage with officials from the Departments of Finance and Defence and the European Commission. The usual statements must be read out. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected, pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. However, a number of today's witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. It is coming up to half-time and we must finish at 4 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We all have to leave.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We have to conclude now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: There is a vote in the Dáil. Could I get a very quick response from Mr. Ryan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Ryan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: If there is anything else it can be provided in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That concludes today's meeting and we can follow it up with written responses. I thank the witnesses and the members for their engagement.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case a child (details supplied) who is travelling in two weeks; if all is now in order with this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23152/24]