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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (15 Feb 2017)

Bernard Durkan: ...Minister for Defence the extent to which the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps continue to be upgraded in terms of military equipment, transport including aircraft, sea-going vessels and road and land vehicles; the extent to which such equipment remains in line with best practice internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (19 Jan 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline the extent to which he remains assured that adequate suitable and serviced building lands remain available in each local authority area to facilitate house building in line with requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2326/17]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...to occasionally refer to previous contributions. I do not claim to be an expert on the issue, and I am trying to address the amendments in the grouping. I declare a lack of interest. I am not a landlord, in case anybody got the wrong impression, nor do I have any aspirations to be. Like the Ceann Comhairle and many people in the House, over many years I have studied the housing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (6 Dec 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he can generate an increase in forestry development through the use of marginal lands with the objective of increased carbon sequestration and good environmental practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38861/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (30 Nov 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the fish catch landed in ports here has fluctuated over the past ten years to date in 2016; the potential for improvement in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37978/16]

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...economic emigrants. I would like to think we could accommodate those who travel to our country and treat them in a way we would like to be treated ourselves in their quest for education in foreign lands. Perhaps we were not always treated the way we should have been, although generally speaking we were accommodated. The Bill goes a long way towards addressing some of those issues and I...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...The late former Taoiseach Seán Lemass moved away from that back in the 1960s, changed everything and developed a competitive society by means of which we were able to compete on our own. IDA Ireland and all of the other organisations concentrated on competing in a world market and moved away from the old days of protectionism, when as a small country we were always going to be at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Availability (5 Oct 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which adequate land, zoned or zoneable, is available to local authorities to facilitate a housing building programme likely to meet the needs of those wishing to purchase a home of their own or who are on local authority waiting lists; if it is acknowledged that an inadequacy of lands will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Availability (5 Oct 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which there is an adequate amount of zoned land to meet the housing needs, both public and private, of the population in the local authority administrative areas in greater Dublin, including north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28938/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (27 Sep 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the Morrell drainage programme continues to be progressed with a view to making the necessary provisions to prevent flooding of land and homes in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27181/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (13 Jul 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is possible for a riparian land owner to avail of a farm support payment to facilitate a river crossing to an otherwise inaccessible part of the land holding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21646/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...have to become amenable to the needs of the community at large in the country. If they do not, then the rules fall into disrepute. What incentive is there for local authorities to hand over their lands to private housing bodies? Is it not much more efficient for local authorities to develop the lands? How efficient and cost-effective is it for private housing bodies to obtain lands for...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Dr. Lyons and thank him for his submission. I agree with some of his comments and strongly disagree with others, particularly the transfer of land from local authorities to approved housing bodies. I cannot see the logic in this and would like to see the reverse happen. Long before we had the kind of situation we have now, local authorities built a large number of houses and lent...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Focus Ireland (26 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...is good to engage with people dealing at the coalface with an issue on a daily basis, as opposed to getting information second-hand, of which there is a great deal. I understand that Focus Ireland recently had a meeting with the Taoiseach at which it rightly set out its priorities. I believe its requests will be responded to. It is only proper that this should be the case in the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has identified serviced or serviceable and zoned or unzoned lands adjacent to towns and villages in local authority areas experiencing severe housing shortages, which have long housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11860/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...in the private sector. One of the problems associated with the boom was the extent to which multiple properties created a bubble for multiple speculators who, in turn, made massive fortunes from land and building properties to such an extend that nobody could afford rents or mortgages. I do not want to reiterate what I said. A person on my salary or that of the Chairman cannot afford...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...words, would it not be wise and in the interests of NAMA and the taxpayer for NAMA to inquire as to what is likely to happen to a property, be that houses already built or potential development land, including, for example, whether a buyer intends to hold onto the property until such time as it appreciates in value, given current low interest rates and the possibility of a much lower...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...can only be described as imposing a penalty on those who had the temerity to provide a house for themselves because they happened to be in a particular income bracket. On the control of land prices, we had the Kenny report, the McKinsey report and Myles Wright reports. Produced at different times, they all addressed the same issue, but for one reason or another, it was decided not to...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...desperate and know that they are between a rock and a hard place. We have to do something that recognises their particular plight. I am not sure whether there is an issue with the hoarding of land. I am of the view that what is happening in this regard has something to do with the prices inherited from the boom, which do not seem to have decreased. I will relay to the committee...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: ...to such an extent that it is virtually impossible. There are two items which I considered to be the biggest contributors to inflation in house prices. One was the speculation that took place in the land sector, where a person acquired a plot or plots of land or control over a multiplicity of plots of land and used that as a lever to enhance their own profits. There have been countless...