Results 161-180 of 16,645 for speaker:Bernard Durkan in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Law Cases (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I again point out it is essential that the issues that have caused this anxiety and trauma for children and parents over a number of years, which are growing, are addressed. The use of parental alienation is growing and it appears that, in certain quarters, there is no intention to change. I thank the Minister for outlining the proposals, which she will have to pursue...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she is aware of a tendency to refuse applications for carer's allowance and disability allowance, which subsequently go to appeal, causing delays resulting in hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7787/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question is similar to the previous question. It draws attention to the fact that while all allowances are means tested, the stoppage for whatever reason of some allowances more than others can cause a seriously negative impact on the applicant. I am trying to suggest that we could take a more benign approach to ensure that when such issues go to appeal, there is something at hand to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her detailed reply. There are glitches that happen from time to time, usually in situations where an earner comes into or leaves the household intermittently. That may then cause a situation like one I had to deal with over Christmas where a household earns no money at all and has no way of getting money. The supplementary welfare system is supposed to be there to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the extent of any discussions he has any with the British Prime Minister following their recent meeting. [6348/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent does the Taoiseach expect to be able to co-operate with the Northern assembly and all parties in Northern Ireland in the window of opportunity that now presents itself, with particular reference to the need to ensure we avoid a collapse of the assembly insofar as that is possible and touch upon the points most likely to irritate either side in Northern Ireland? Will he, with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State. I agree that people who have been knocked off the housing list can appeal but the appeal does not always work. In fact, it seldom works. The problem is that such people are put to the bottom of the housing list and have no chance of being housed within the next five, six or seven years. That is deplorable, as far as they are concerned. I ask that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to what extent he might increase the production of housing in all areas throughout the country to meet the housing demand thereby alleviating the accommodation prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6888/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can harness any new measures to accelerate the production and availability of extra housing to meet the obvious demand whether by way of modular, the development of private sites on which affordable or mass produced housing units of a high standard can be made available, with a view to providing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further steps that can be taken to dramatically increase the housing output to meet the requirements of both the public and private housing programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7374/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to what extent he expects to be in a position to improve or augment the various schemes encompassing the Housing For All programme with a view to identifying how best these might be improved to meet the challenges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7380/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which housing policy can be modified to deliver the product at an accelerated pace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7385/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Some of the text go lost in translation with regard to Question No. 68.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The word "prices" should have read "crisis", but it could also refer to prices. Two questions as set out are connected in that regard. I ask that we look at the alternatives. Much along the lines of my colleague, we recognise that we are making progress, but we are not making progress quick enough.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, it is working. As I said, however, it is not working quickly enough. We happen to have in my constituency a situation whereby a variety and cohort of people cannot access the market at all, no matter what happens, except over long waiting periods. For example, we have many people whose homes were repossessed by the banks back in the early days of the financial crash. They are not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Last week when I raised with the Taoiseach the question of the continued use of the in camera rule in the context of family law in this country, he quite correctly answered that the rule was there to protect children. Unfortunately, that has changed because of the introduction of parental alienation. In fact, it now leaves it open for children and their parents to be abused due to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I live in a constituency that has a rapidly expanding population way ahead of what was anticipated even in the recent past. There are a number of schools about which parents are concerned. I am going to one of those meetings tonight in Prosperous. Parents are concerned about the schedule for the provision of a new post-primary school, the provision of school transport associated with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [6644/24]

Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (13 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: (1) notes the agreed Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Standing Order 133 on the following proposal: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT), COM(2023)532; which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 31st January, 2024 in accordance...