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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he has monitored the activities of investment funds and other lending institutions in their pursuit of borrowers; if due process and best practice is observed and dealt with as necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46884/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Price Inflation (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department continues to monitor specific inflationary tendencies within the economy, including inflated rental prices; his plans to address such issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46885/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Strategy (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which her Department continues to monitor global trade or financial markets with a view to identifying opportunities to compensate for Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46880/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement Strategy: Discussion with Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Like everyone else, I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. I have been around for a while and was a member of this committee when Turkey first made its application for membership of the European Union. There was a lot of hope and anticipation at that particular time. The aspirations faded somewhat in the meantime. Similarly, on North Macedonia, I would have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our witnesses here this morning and thank them for their submissions. In general I would agree with Deputy Kelly's remarks on the legalities likely to emerge and the extent to which the courts could well be full of issues arising from this. Mr. Redmond has evaluated how the clawback will or will not work. However, over the past few years has the Department carried out any audit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent has the Department, in its ongoing dialogue with the HSE, been able to address the issues that arose in the present framing of the legislation? Mr. Redmond mentioned the viability of the scheme. In the course of those exchanges of views with the HSE, what has been to the fore? Has the concern been primarily for the viability of the scheme, with the necessity to get more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Has raising more money through the scheme or allowing it to continue to exist been a primary concern in the formulation of proposals? Are the possible resolution or elimination of issues that have arisen and a means to resolve them primary concerns? Have the number of situations where individuals have been placed in financial jeopardy as a result of the scheme and the manner in which it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for my absence earlier. I had to go to the Chamber for questions and when a quorum was called.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming before us and giving us their views. What has the HSE said about the recruitment pause? The Minister has said there is no pause. In Ms Ní Sheaghdha's opinion, what are the reasons for any slowdown or pause? She mentioned that insufficient staff were available to staff wards and that there were beds available. She said many beds are available that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Does that apply to nursing staff only?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Are beds vacant as a result of those glitches?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Has this been measured and quantified within the system with a view to finding out roughly how many people go in each of the different directions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: That brings me to my next question. Was any priority given in terms of that pause-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: -----to the need to secure medical and nursing staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Okay. I also asked about recruitment from overseas. How does the retention of such staff compare with the retention of indigenously recruited staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: They are going from here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: We have come across that. We will take it up again. We will take it up with the HSE as well. I would like to ask Ms Ní Sheaghdha about the need for more undergraduate places. What is her view on the wisdom of increasing the number of undergraduate places here, bearing in mind the extent to which they tend to go abroad afterwards? It is generally accepted that it is not rewarding,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Hold on a second, that is not entirely true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Bear with me for a moment. I am not mixed up at all; I am quite clear on this. We have had representatives of the HSE here, asked the questions and got the answers. We keep asking the same questions and getting the same answers. How can we arrive at a situation whereby, by one means or another, be it recruitment at home or recruitment overseas, we can have an adequate level of staff,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: As with the new children's hospital, is there not a presumption that staff need to be employed when planning for the future, based on the identification of what is required and the predicted retirements and their likely impact? For as long as I can remember, no new institution that ever opened had an adequate supply of staff at the time even though the staffing requirement was well...