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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of the urgent need to meet public housing demand throughout the country, all efforts might concentrate on the provision of a targeted number of local authority housing in each local authority area within the next 12 months and postpone further auditing of numbers on local authority waiting lists until...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which facilities are available to meet the housing needs of the indigenous rural population throughout rural Ireland by way of ensuring an adequate number of houses in keeping with good planning principles to facilitate in so far as is possible the indigenous needs of those living in rural areas...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will urgently examine the need to install a robust local authority housing loan system, similar to that available in the 1980s, with the objective of ensuring that persons who do not qualify for local authority housing on income grounds can at least apply for a loan to buy or construct their own houses; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses directly under construction by the local authorities to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that adequate suitable and serviced building lands remain available in each local authority area to facilitate house building in line with requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25148/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA may again be approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the pressing needs of local authority housing applicants throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25151/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all arrears in respect of their disability allowance have been paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25129/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position with regard to an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25131/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a disability benefit allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25132/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of entitlement and current payment in the case of a person (details supplied); the extent to which a previous alleged overpayment has been discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Widow's Pension (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) currently on widow’s pension can qualify for a higher level of payment, such as an invalidity pension including free schemes, having particular reference to the fact they worked part time up until recently but is medically no longer in a position to do so. [25135/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if rent support was restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25136/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the means by which a person (details supplied) can get the required permission from the father of their child in view of the fact their child has qualified for entitlement to Irish citizenship in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25126/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (25 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the requirements in order to obtain high speed broadband in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25128/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his colleagues have impressed upon all the authorities at EU level, those directly involved in negotiations and otherwise, the absolute necessity to ensure that Ireland's position as a committed member of the European Union does not become in any way diluted by idle speculation which could undermine the strength...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid Provision (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to press upon his EU and UN colleagues the urgency of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa; the extent to which plans are in hand to deal specifically with the issues arising, including the need to provide interim arrangements such as safe havens and a specific and comprehensive plan to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a family reunification application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25549/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a release from the JobPath scheme can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) to take a place in the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a once-off exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Strategy (30 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which his Department continues to pursue trade and market opportunities throughout the European Union and beyond with a view to compensating for losses arising from Brexit or other geopolitical activities or development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25984/17]