Results 33,941-33,960 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which lack of adequate of housing and-or poverty continues to impact most particularly on children and adolescents, the extent to which it is anticipated such issues can be isolated and resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32838/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she expects to be in a position to offer adequate support funding to the Kildare Youth Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32839/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education Issues (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department continues to liaise with the Department of Health as per reply to previous Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 20 June 2013 in the context of provision of the early childhood care and education scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32840/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Minister for Health if he has studied the budgetary submission submitted to his Department on behalf of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland with particular reference to ensuring cost-effective dementia care in the forthcoming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32663/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the necessary treatment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32702/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 273. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32819/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Female Genital Mutilation (4 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 274. To ask the Minister for Health the position in regard to female circumcision in this jurisdiction; the extent to which both parents are required to give consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32820/13]

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Turn on the tap.

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: No.

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Given the ever-increasing evidence of the number of crimes, sometimes a multiplicity of crimes, being committed by persons while on bail, might it be possible to bring the bail Bill before the House with some urgency ? Similarly, I refer to the proposed legislation to deal with corporate crime. Both Bills are required as a matter of urgency. When might they appear before the House?

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied regarding the availability to her Department of the necessary resources to meet the widest possible scale of eventualities arising from the ongoing economic situation which she inherited, with particular reference to the need to meet the needs of all categories of persons now dependent on a payment from her Department with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she can streamline and/or accelerate the process for the determination of appeals in respect of disability payments, invalidity pensions or other disability related payments with a view to minimising the impact and/or hardship on the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33190/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Places (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of training/up-skilling or further educational places being provided by his Department with a view to addressing the unemployment situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33533/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused permission to sign on at their local employment exchange notwithstanding the fact that they are available for work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32866/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused permission to sign on at their local employment exchange notwithstanding the fact that they are available for work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct maximum rent level at which rent support will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which it was calculated that €559.70 is the correct amount of rent supplement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has a wife and five dependent children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33094/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which provision has been made to facilitate easier access to relevant social welfare payments for persons previously self-employed and currently long-term unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33532/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (9 Jul 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of supplementary welfare to be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33319/13]