Results 44,321-44,340 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to persons (details supplied) in upgrading residency status to stamp 4; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8760/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Eligibility (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she can waive the requirement for a passport from a person's homeland (details supplied) in the context of determining eligibility for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8761/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will facilitate a family reunification for a person (details supplied). [8762/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure a person (details supplied) must follow to regularise residency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8765/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to renew stamp 4 for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 14 April 2016, to facilitate the provision of stamp 4 residency for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8768/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to award stamp 4 status to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8771/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the eligibility of a person (details supplied) for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8763/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 119. To ask the Minister for Health to facilitate treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8769/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Would it be possible to bank two or three questions for the Minister to answer? Otherwise, we will very late in the day.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee and giving of his time. I congratulate him and his colleagues on their efforts in Government over the past number of years. It was a period that was fraught with difficulty at times, particularly in respect of access to finance. This must be acknowledged. I agree with Deputy Coppinger about the extent to which the public housing...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Can a period spent in the private rental sector be used by local authorities when determining eligibility for a loan? If a person is able to rent in the private sector on his or her own account without subsidisation, he or she should be eligible for a local authority loan. Regarding shared ownership loans, the rental part of the equity should become the subject of tenant purchase schemes...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry that I was absent. I am concerned about using large-scale developments comprising 300 or 400 houses to solve the problem. In various local authority areas throughout the country there is an over-concentration on what could be called socially deprived areas. Large developments might make for good economics but they do not make for good social cohesion. We all deal regularly with...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: No, I have not. That is a rubbish suggestion. I said nothing of the sort.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I said nothing of the sort, and Deputy Coppinger knows that. I want to emphasise that over-concentration on the kind of development about which I spoke is not a good way to resolve the problem and will result in ghettoisation. We do not want that and we have seen it happen before. Trying to twist, for publicity purposes-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I fully realise what Deputy Coppinger is trying to do.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I fully realise what Deputy Coppinger is trying to say.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am not shouting, but I did not interrupt Deputy Coppinger - she interrupted me.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Chairman.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Like Deputy Daly, I do not want to be pejorative and it is not my wish to be in any way offensive, but we are discussing the kernel of the housing situation in terms of the public sector in this country. For a long time I have been an opponent of the replacement of the public sector building programme, as suggested by Deputies Daly and Coppinger, with housing provided through voluntary...