Results 1-12 of 12 for climate change speaker:Mark Durkan

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Copenhagen Summit (21 Oct 2009) has video

Mark Durkan: ...the determination expressed by the Secretary of State, but what confidence can he give us that the rights and needs of vulnerable developing countries will be better protected in negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen than they were at the world trade negotiations?

Business of the House: Standing Orders Etc. (Energy and Climate Change) (28 Oct 2008)

Mark Durkan: ...of fuel poverty at a time of economic challenge, and the serious matter of initiating energy strategy on energy generation for the future, particularly in the context of environmental requirements on climate change and the various international obligations, including the new targets and treaties being negotiated at the end of next year. However, arrangements can surely be made to continue...

Business of the House: Standing Orders Etc. (Energy and Climate Change) (28 Oct 2008)

Mark Durkan: ...of energy policy to business and to the broader economy. There are also international and diplomatic dimensions to the quest for international standards in respect of environmental regulation and climate change. The new Department has a big task, and it may do no harm to make the Committee a bit bigger rather than a bit smaller. That would allow for a broader spread across the parties and,...

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half Day] — Cost of Living (9 Jul 2008) has video

Mark Durkan: ...danger of the current crisis is the risk of all that good work being wiped out. Just as they are right not to throw away their drive towards creating a greener fiscal regime in the current economic climate, so they are right to keep their focus on trying to bear down on fuel poverty, curbing and restraining it as much as possible. In the context of a cost-of-warmth index that tracks what...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: North/South Ministerial Council — Trade and Business Development Sectoral Meeting (30 Jun 2008)

Mark Durkan: ...for initiatives on environmental goods and services, and how far those will complement InterTradeIreland’s work to improve co-operative policy research North and South? Issues such as climate change, renewable energy and waste management present business opportunities as well as challenges for public-sector expenditure.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: British-Irish Council —  Environment Sectoral Format (12 Feb 2008)

Mark Durkan: ...and her colleagues would be prepared to consider a framework for marine management organisations or one organisation for all these islands? That issue arises, of course, in the context of the UK Climate Change Bill [HL]. There will also be the issue for us of what discrete legislation is required here, with a discrete organisation, too. Given the content of the Minister’s statement,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Climate Change Bill [HL]:  Legislative Consent Motion (10 Dec 2007)

Mark Durkan: ...was consulted on the legislative consent motion and received a written briefing and presentation by officials. The Committee supports the legislative consent motion and recognises that, as the Climate Change Bill [HL] is taken through Westminster, it is important that it clearly encompasses the situation in Northern Ireland. The Committee has a direct interest in energy policy and...

Written Answers — International Development: Africa (Climate Change) (25 Oct 2006)

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa who are at risk from diseases directly attributable to climate change.

Northern Ireland Assembly: British-Irish Council: Plenary Meeting (10 Dec 2001)

Mr Mark Durkan: ...of demand reduction, incorporating prevention and treatment, and supply reduction, incorporating law enforcement. This future co-operation will include the further development of information exchanges and joint actions. Among the areas covered by enhanced information exchange will be co-operation on models of best practice, research, data pilot programmes and rehabilitation and...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Public Expenditure: June Monitoring (2 Jul 2001)

Mr Mark Durkan: ...main theme and purpose of such exercises is to adjust the allocation of resources in line with a better analysis of the cost pressures. We must ensure that the money is adjusted to take account of changes in the delivery of public services. The Executive also want to take account of the priorities and objectives in the Programme for Government and take any new opportunities to promote...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Budget Bill: Second Stage (20 Feb 2001)

Mr Mark Durkan: ...basis anywhere. We must try to balance resources against needs. We must also constantly reappraise and test the allocation of resources against perceived needs, first to check whether needs have changed and should be recognised in a different way, and secondly to see whether opportunities to meet needs have changed and can be responded to. The change to resource accounting and budgeting...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Supply (Northern Ireland Departments) (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Mark Durkan: ...will be followed up by my Department and me, or by the respective departmental Ministers. I take Mrs Nelis’s point that many of the remarks were made not so much because people were trying to change the Estimates — rather they were laying down markers for future budgetary considerations. Today has clearly been useful. The debate has been constructive and responsible. The...