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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: One presumes that the true cost is determined by a specification as to what the contract is. It is either a true cost or it is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The true cost arises if I advertise for somebody to contract to provide a particular service. The detail of that particular service is what the contract is going to entail, not in respect of some ancillary issues that might add costs afterwards. In respect of Government contracts, it is illegal to qualify a contract or to extend it beyond its original terms. My question still remains....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I state emphatically that this is an unsatisfactory way in which to engage in contractual business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I need to bring it back to both parties, namely, those providing the contract and those seeking to have the contract provided. If we have a series of provisions and additions emerging throughout the year, we will not be able to set down a precise cost. It does not work that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I agree entirely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I have a couple of other questions to be answered. I do not want mine to be the shortest contribution to the meeting, which started at 9 a.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I am keeping a closer eye on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Hopefully, Deputy Kelly will not have to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Can Mr. O'Regan provide a rough estimate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Can Mr. O'Regan envisage a situation whereby voluntary bodies, on an ongoing basis, can inform the HSE and the Minister for Health at the beginning of the year that they will have add-on costs throughout the year arising from extra services that need to be provided or additional costs associated with services that are being provided and in what way? I am mindful of the fact that we cannot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: So the supplement required was much bigger than was identified at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies made a submission to Sláintecare-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Did the Rehab Group write to the committee that produced the Sláintecare report in the course of its hearings and deliberations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Did it get a satisfactory response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: That committee has concluded its work.
- Proposed Service by Defence Forces with United Nations in Mali: Motion (18 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State is two minutes over time.
- Proposed Service by Defence Forces with United Nations in Mali: Motion (18 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I will have to give the other speakers similar latitude.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (18 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I call on the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach to make a statement.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The nursing homes support Bill is promised legislation. Where does it now stand? Is it likely to come before the House in the near future?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Jun 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he, along with EU and his UN colleagues, continues to press for humanitarian assistance in the various conflict zones globally; if consideration continues to be given to the provision of safe or protective havens for civilian communities fleeing from war, genocide and terrorism; the extent to which peacekeeping...