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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if all documentation pertaining a person (details supplied) can now be returned to the family in line with previous requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4034/22]

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It is very appropriate we are having this debate. We all know from our constituency work the degree to which young people have been in need of attention, support and service support of a mental nature as well as an educational nature in recent years. Remember that we were hit by an economic crash followed by Covid, all of which put a serious dent on society. We tend to forget everything...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in relation to the urgent need in conjunction with Kildare County Council to update the traffic management plan for the Celbridge area with a view to ensuring major improvements for local persons without closing off existing routes; if he will coordinate efforts to address these issues; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in relation to the urgent need in conjunction with Kildare County Council, to update the traffic management plan for Naas town with a view to addressing the concerns as expressed to the local authority by residents of the area and the need to have permanent resolution in the matter of alleviation of traffic congestion...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry I had to leave to speak elsewhere. I am not sure whether I was appreciated in those places or not but we will have to push on. Indexation has merits but it is not the answer. When I left the meeting I referenced how it restricts the degree to which Governments can respond and how it leaves them with fewer options. Dr. Healy mentioned 2007 as almost being the ideal situation in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It goes to show we still agree on a lot of things.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister and his officials to the meeting. I want to raise a couple questions on Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners. Revenue collected a record €97 billion in gross tax receipts against total administration costs of €488.6 million. Would the Minister like to elucidate further on the success of Revenue in collecting such a record amount, whether there...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent might other services be referred to the Revenue Commissioners given their success in the current and challenging circumstances?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Throughout 2021, €4.6 billion was paid under the employment wage subsidy scheme to which the Minister referred. Some 628,000 employees received payments. Has it been possible to quantify the full extent the benefit that was to the economy and its sustenance and to offsetting the threat created by Covid? Has it been money well spent?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, provided further support to businesses significantly affected by public health restrictions. A total of 21,300 businesses received subsidy payments totalling over €470 million. Has it been possible to quantify the extent to which that was a vital payment from the business sector's point of view?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I conclude by congratulating all and sundry for the interventions that took place over the past two years. They were necessary interventions. I congratulate all those in the Minister's own office, the Department of Finance, the Revenue Commissioners and everybody associated with the positive interventions that were made at a vital time in the country's history when there was not much by way...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister and the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am ready and willing. I welcome the witnesses and congratulate them on the role they have played throughout the pandemic. It was called upon. They rallied to the cause and that is much appreciated and admired. Has the new GP contract in any way addressed the issues that have caused problems in the provision of GP services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is that evolving at the present time to the satisfaction of all concerned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is the IMO getting a response?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to hear that because it is important that progress continues to be made on whatever agreements are reached and whatever arrangements are entered into. Otherwise, they get struck, left on the shelf and added to the list. In the event of an all-out effort being made, how can we dramatically increase the number of trainee GPs being accommodated in training? That question has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is there access at the moment or is access limited or impeded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We need to know the degree to which positions can be made available in the hospitals. For example, hospitals are overburdened with excess staff, because the pressure is on and the demand is there.