Results 43,641-43,660 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: For the information of the House, there are four more speakers in the Chamber and we have only ten minutes before calling on the Minister of State to bring the debate to a conclusion.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I ask the Deputy to conclude. Otherwise, we will run short of time for everybody else.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Deputy.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Deputy.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise to the Deputy for rushing her, but we are on a tight schedule. The next speaker is Deputy Sandra McLellan, who is sharing time with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. The Deputies will have approximately two and a half minutes each, if I am to accommodate the other two Members who wish to speak.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I have to call on the Minister of State to reply at 10.50 p.m.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am giving the Deputies the option of accommodating other Members, but it is up to them.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputies McLellan and Ó Caoláin for their co-operation. As a result, there are two minutes remaining for Deputies Michael McCarthy and Ciara Conway.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I will not be that strict. The Deputies should use up the two minutes or so that remain.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Conway. I apologise for the limited time, but she should take some anyway. We will have to call a halt soon.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to facilitate the qualification for a State pension (contributory) for spouses of self-employed or PAYE contributors who while rearing their families were absent from the workforce for a number of years, thereby rendering themselves unable to qualify for this pension in their own right; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection how she is addressing the issue of long-term and youth unemployment; the degree to which European Union supports in this regard have been invoked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1199/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an entitlement to a Disability Allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46817/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent support in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1537/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1578/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 20 October 2015, why a person (details supplied) in County Kildare did not qualify for any scheme while completing a post primary course; what is required to qualify for such assistance, given that person is now completing a post leaving certificate course with no assistance from the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to an earlier parliamentary question (details supplied), the entitlement in respect of a contributory widow's pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare arising from that person's contributions and those of that person's spouse here and in the United Kingdom, if this qualifies this person for the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the level of rent allowance payable to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare on foot of additional information supplied on 17 December 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1281/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection notwithstanding the response to previous enquiries including parliamentary questions, the basis on which it was determined that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare did not qualify for an exceptional needs payment following a recent bereavement which was preceded by a long family illness and given that the person...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (13 Jan 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for an exceptional needs payment arising from funeral costs in each of the past 12 months; the number granted; the number refused; the number pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1399/16]