Bernard Durkan, TD

Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, Bernard J Durkan, has today (Thursday) warmly welcomed the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD, that funding has been allocated to allow Kildare County Council...

To take up Deputy John Browne's last point on the total number of people on local authority housing waiting lists, it is indeed a housing crisis. It is one the Minister of State inherited from her predecessors. It has continued for ten years because the previous Administration refused to do anything about it...

To take up Deputy John Browne's last point on the total number of people on local authority housing waiting lists, it is indeed a housing crisis. It is one the Minister of State inherited from her predecessors. It has continued for ten years because the previous Administration refused to do anything about it...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has studied the various forms of bullying most commonly identified in order of prevalence and age group...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has been made aware of youth poverty; her strategy to address any such issues...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and or her Department has directly or in conjunction with other Departments managed to focus on the issue of youth unemployment...

I welcome this important legislation, which I have called for on many occasions, and compliment the Minister on bringing it before the House. We have learned from the downturn in the economy...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has studied the various forms of bullying most commonly identified in order of prevalence and age group...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department has been made aware of youth poverty; her strategy to address any such issues...

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and or her Department has directly or in conjunction with other Departments managed to focus on the issue of youth unemployment...