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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: ..., Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, and his officials to the meeting. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...up on the western road out of this capital calling, in effect, for a poll on Northern Ireland now. The next morning, however, they were gone. There must have been a change in strategy somewhere along the line. Either the person who put up the posters had a change of strategy or the organisation he represented did. The situation, though, was that that was what happened. I can tell the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The committee has discussed the issue of cataracts and their removal over the past 12 months in particular. As Mr. Mullaniff said, patients are on waiting lists, which can be very long, and that can be very challenging for people who live alone and depend entirely on motorised transport and so on. Has Vision Ireland had occasion to engage with the HSE to ask it to change its strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...and Reform the degree to which he remains satisfied that each Department continues to effectively operate best practice in the context of public expenditure and reform, with a view to ensuring long-lasting benefits for the persons and the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18072/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming along and giving us information on this particularly difficult situation. It is difficult because it is very hard to treat it. We did manage to find a treatment in the form of a vaccine for Covid but there seems to be no way of preventing long or chronic Covid. What is happening with regard to drugs? Are efforts being made to identify specific drugs for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I know. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. Members who attend remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...Mr. Downes. I remind members that there will be a break for a vote in the House at some stage. It will be after 2 p.m., obviously. We do not know exactly when it will be as we do not know how long the debate between the start of business and the vote will take. We will break for the vote and come back. I call Senator Higgins to make her contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We cannot go on for long periods-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: How long will it take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: How long will it take for that to kick in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Ten years is a long time to somebody facing a possible diagnosis. The major factor is access to appropriate medicines, as has been mentioned regarding other European countries, where such medicines seem to be more readily available for various reasons. What is the most important thing in nailing this and arresting the increasing incidence of cancer among younger people, both men and women?...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of entitlements to residency, long-term residency, stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14420/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which application for long-term residency/citizenship will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied) who currently has stamp 4 status and is awaiting an upgrade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14421/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...but it can be dealt with once secure access to and from the property is guaranteed. That is a first because if there were two private landowners side by side, this matter would have been decided long ago because it would have been decided in the courts and an injunction, an arrangement or agreement would be entered into. There would be no threat to the historical house or the adjoining...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...dependent on everything around them unless somebody leads them around. We should be able to make an exception in those circumstances and say that under ordinary circumstances, if we did not have a long waiting list, we would have been able to do this in the first instance and we should have done it. I strongly urge that we take that into account and make provision for this. Friends of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We continue to receive calls from the families of children with disabilities or children awaiting diagnoses for obvious conditions, who are waiting for long periods during which they seem to be isolated and forgotten. This is causing great stress to parents and the children themselves. Last night, I met a person with neurological problems. There seems to be a particular problem in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (28 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: .... The constant refrain is that the OPW is doing this because the previous access route, which had been in operation for ten years via the M4 through the car park and Castletown House, was no longer available as the arrangement with the previous landowner was no longer in vogue. The situation then should have been that it would have no access, other than the route that was closed down....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...and those calculations seem to indicate we have to do more and that what has been done to counter climate change so far is not enough. I am not sure about that. I have lived in this country as long as most other people and this is the point. If we exert ourselves to the extent that we try to do more than we can afford, there will be a backlash. That is already beginning to be seen in...