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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: What do we do? Is it agreed that we suspend?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We had better go to the Chamber or we will be suspended.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: We will not come back. Is that agreed? Agreed. The meeting is now adjourned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach. The minutes of the joint committee's meetings of 17 and 24 April were agreed at the committee's previous meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In this session the committee will engage with Insurance Ireland, BPFI and Engineers Ireland. On behalf of the committee I welcome from Insurance Ireland Ms Moyagh Murdock, CEO; Mr. Michael Horan, manager of regulation and policy development; and Ms Ruth NicGinneá, advocacy and public affairs manager. From BPFI I welcome Mr. Brian Hayes, chief executive, and Ms Michelle Bryne, head of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I now throw the debate open to the floor. The first speaker is Deputy Pearse Doherty. He will be followed by the other members of the committee and then Deputy Joe McHugh, who is not a member of the committee but has come here to represent his constituents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I think Ms Murdock would like to come in on that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. Do any of the members online want to come in? No. We will proceed as we are. We will have to take a break or finish, whichever is acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Okay. Is Deputy Mac Lochlainn going first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I have to be gone by 4 p.m..
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Yes, we can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Next week, the Departments of housing and finance and the Central Bank will be before the committee to discuss the same subject. This discussion will continue for quite a while yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Doherty wants to come in again, and I want to leave, so somebody will have to take over in a while.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise for interrupting but I have to leave and I need someone else to take over the Chair. This group has presented some very important information to the committee to enable the committee and the House to make its judgment at a later stage. In relation to insurance, I have always had the view that everybody must be involved, that is, the banks, insurers, engineers, the construction...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [19206/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the former Taoiseach's recent visit to Boston. [12985/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the information they have given to the committee. It is highly important that the highest possible standards prevail in any health practice and we should try to make every effort to ensure nobody gets through the system who should not be there, whether in dental or general medicine, because a number of people who had unfortunate records got through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: For how long were dental practices closed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Nine weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It was not always possible to identify that in the public arena.