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Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The question has been carried and the Bill will be dealt with in the usual way in due course.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Before we go back to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, I congratulate him for the futuristic nature, as it should be, and the thought-provoking nature of the debate. His proposal is important in the time in which we live. The Deputy has ten minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...into homelessness. Will the Tánaiste try to ascertain the full extent of this problem throughout the country, maybe through the local authorities? The issue affects both local authorities and private authorities all over the country, however.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...Minister is making. There is a multiplicity of schemes, some of which are more helpful than others. Would it be possible to look at the schemes in their totality with a view to discontinuing some and adding more of an incentive to other schemes that might have a bigger impact?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister has to be congratulated for the progress to date in a very difficult situation between economic factors, Covid, Brexit and all the things that have impeded progress not only on housing but on everything else as well. We welcome the success to date. Everyone will agree that we now need a push forward. We spoke about this recently. We need to push forward and it is possible...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State's progressive attitude towards sports capital grant funding is to be welcomed. One thing I would ask is that perhaps special consideration might be given to clubs and groups that have not previously received any recognition. There are a number of such organisations and they have been feeling a little neglected for some years. This is an opportunity to help them and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee this morning. Are they happy with the structures over which they preside, their effectiveness and their ability to respond to particular situations, and do they see the need for any changes? I ask this against the backdrop of this committee being very specific during the Sláintecare debate on how the whole country could be represented...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Does that culture involve an "us and them" attitude where we protect our spot and we will repel at all borders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent is Mr. Devane targeting the sensitive areas such as bed or trolley counts, and the number of persons on trolleys on any given day, which, of course, relates to patients in accident and emergency departments throughout the country? Is Mr. Devane satisfied that adequate attention is being given to each?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We seem to have ongoing trouble attracting and retaining staff. Can Mr. Devane give some indication as to the main reasons for this? We know about the working conditions. That is understood, and we accept it as a given. Do we pay salaries and wages that are comparable or almost comparable with those available in other locations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In terms of nurses, non-consultant hospital doctors or other staff, how do their pay and conditions compare with those available in other jurisdictions, including our next-door neighbours and various other locations, which continually draw from the qualified personnel that we have here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is Mr Devane happy that he has the ways and means of controlling the element to which he referred and that he is making progress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...members of the Eastern Health Board. We learned whatever skills we have there, or did not learn them as the case may be. Why is it not possible for the HSE to identify the most important and fundamental posts to be filled, so that we will not have this situation of it saying that it cannot operate anymore because of an embargo or go-slow? It is well known that the HSE and the delivery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to identify the pinch points at the beginning of the year and decide to deal with them first and talk about it afterwards, rather than not dealing with them until it becomes a talking point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: And we will. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Should it not be a given that the board represents patients or the patient voice in every aspect of it and that there is no suggestion in any quarter of somebody deciding to ignore a patient or a culture ignoring patients or patient's needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and congratulate them on the tremendous work they are doing all over the country, including in my own constituency at the Little Way Cancer Support Centre in Clane, County Kildare, which has done tremendous work over the years. The secret to the centres' success is that they are community-based and that they arose out of necessity. From the beginning, it was recognised...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a request to sanction the summer programme for one week for eight classes was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); if this school’s case can be examined at the earliest opportunity, with a view to ensuring a consensus to run at least a week’s programme given the importance of the school to local children...