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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to evaluate the social protection payments that had to be reduced during the period of recession due to a lack of resources and to identify the most sensitive where some restoration can take place while keeping the need for prudent management in mind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11838/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in addressing the issue of youth unemployment; the extent to which he expects to meet targets in this regard in the course of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12041/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the sections of his Department currently affected by longer than average appeal waiting times; the extent to which he expects to address this issue in the future and during the course of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12042/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the age profile of those persons on the live register continues to be monitored with a view to making any adjustments necessary to assist those most in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12043/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of women or men who have failed to qualify for contributory old age pension due to insufficient contributions throughout their working lives, with particular reference to those who may have taken time off to rear their families and may have taken up employment later in life in respect of each of the past five years to date; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which his Department continues to be in the position to avail of European Union support to alleviate youth unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12045/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the degree to which adequate resources continue to be made available to his Department to meet exceptional needs payment requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12046/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which backlogs have been addressed in respect of various headings and payments operated by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12047/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which back to work applications have been approved in each of the past four years to date; the extent to which those previously self-employed and PAYE workers continue to benefit from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12048/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of previously self-employed persons currently remaining unemployed and on the live register; the steps taken to facilitate their return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12049/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for contributory old age pension received in each of the past five years to date; where eligibility was determined on the basis of a partnership between spouses; where the relevant self-employed pension contributions under the 1988 Act were made but where pension was refused on the basis that a partnership did not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in respect of applicants for contributory old age pension under the provisions of self-employed contributions provided for under the 1988 Act and where previously, in the event of a shortfall, it was possible to make up the contributions by way of single payment, whether the profit from the business did not warrant the payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he might examine the ineligibility of entitlement to contributory old age pension for women who had to give up work in the public sector due to the marriage ban or who took time out to rear their families and subsequently returned to the workforce but who do not qualify for a contributory old age pension, despite having a made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection #the total number of family income supplement payments currently in place; the extent to which the number has fluctuated over the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which overpayments, culminating in a recovery, may exist in respect of cases whereby the recipient of the alleged overpayment may have a prior entitlement which would reduce the extent of liability to repay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12105/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if time to draw down grant assistance of €80,000 provided under the sports capital grant scheme to a school (details supplied) will be extended to facilitate the remaining fund-raising required by the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11957/16]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am very glad to have an opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I would like to think that we have come to a juncture where we have addressed the issues that have been a cause of concern over recent years. The origin of these issues dates back almost ten years. They were in the ether, so to speak, for a long time and were reported at the time. Garda Maurice McCabe, as he was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (26 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: We are doing very well. We might meet the deadline yet.

Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (26 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The next Member present, for Question No. 7, is Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.