Results 48,001-48,020 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing starts currently under way by the various local authorities in Dublin and immediately adjoining counties; when it is expected such houses are likely to be available for occupation in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17340/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which the local authorities in Dublin and immediately adjoining counties have proposals in hand to facilitate an accelerated housing programme to meet the rapidly emerging needs of the population arising from the existing size of the local authority housing register and the demand for private houses;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which recently awarded infrastructural funds in County Kildare will facilitate a housing programme to meet the needs of those local authority housing lists and the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17341/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department has identified further deficiencies which might impede the development of a housing programme to meet the needs of the public and private sector in County Kildare in the aftermath of the recent award of funding to meet infrastructural deficits; when an accelerated housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of the housing crisis that currently exists, local authorities such as in County Kildare might be encouraged to facilitate indigenous housing applications in rural areas in circumstances in which previously such persons have been encouraged to locate in an urban setting, having particular regard to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the degree to which the planning process has been accelerated to facilitate the rapidly emerging needs of persons on local authority housing lists in danger of becoming homeless due to repossession of buy-to-let properties or repossession through mortgage arrears; the extent to which targets can be increased, both...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Loans (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a local authority loan scheme can be put in place to facilitate first-time buyers or those on local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Loans (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the criteria for qualification for local authority loans can be re-examined with a view to ensuring that families have an opportunity of providing themselves with their own home through the local authority scheme by reference to a realistic access criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has examined the anomaly whereby qualification income limits for local authority housing are set in such a way as to deprive many families of a possible local authority home notwithstanding the fact that their income does not give them the choice to fund a mortgage; if immediate steps can be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which subsidised serviced building sites can be made available to low-to-medium income families that cannot currently provide themselves with a home of their own for a variety of reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17349/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); if the jobseeker's allowance is the appropriate payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17323/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of carer's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17324/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a decision to refuse an application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the refusal of a decision in respect of a disability allowance dated 7 March 2017 in the case of a person (details supplied); if this inquiry will be accepted as basis for appeal; if a basic social welfare payment can issue in the interim while awaiting the result of the appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which it might be concluded that two persons, one in their 90s and one in late 80s, are deemed insufficiently dependent to require a carer, as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17335/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Status (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a review of residency and, as a consequence, passport entitlement can be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17327/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 262. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card renewal will be effected in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17322/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (6 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 263. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17330/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (11 Apr 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 64. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which adequate personnel remain available throughout his Department to ensure a speedy seamless process for dealing with all applications for various payments including means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17846/17]