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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received for contributory old age pension, jobseeker's allowance, non-contributory old age pension, disability allowance, invalidity pension and carer's allowance, respectively, by month in each of the years 2015 to 2016, and to date in 2017; the number of cases granted, refused, granted on appeal and refused on appeal,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that appeals in respect of various decisions in regard to payments made by his Department are dealt with expeditiously or that payment will continue while the case is on appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26246/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which community welfare services are readily available to meet the needs of those in society that may ordinarily have had no reason to call on the social services that may, due to circumstances outside their control, have to rely on exceptional needs payments to get by in a crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if arrangements can be made to ensure that emergency payments are available in cases in which an emergency exists out of hours or weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26248/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of youth unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26249/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of long-term unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26250/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he can ensure the availability of replacement income for those in receipt of one-parent family allowance whose allowance may have been reduced or discontinued but that may not be in a position to go to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26251/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if gaps in a person's contribution record in the assessment of entitlement to contributory old age pension, which now may entitle them to a lower level of payment, notwithstanding the fact that they were in insurable employment during a multiplicity of employment of up to five years and in which previously his Department's policy was, that they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); when same will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26155/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: My apologies for arriving late. I have read Dr. Coffey's statement. A couple of points arise. I was probably responsible for having the National Cancer Registry set up in the first instance because I asked so many questions that somebody decided it was time to move on with it. To what degree has the incidence of the various forms of cancer throughout the country, and any potential cause...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Mr. Horan for appearing before the committee and for his introductory remarks. Unlike my colleague, I believe that both the public and the private health sectors should be cost-effective, efficient and responsive. There is no harm in having competition between the two in respective areas. I favour the public health sector and I want to see it develop and grow. When comparisons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is there an obvious inability in the public sector to deal with these particular illnesses? I would have expected hip replacement procedures to be high on the agenda.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Go easy.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: You are always magnanimous, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to be in a position to make adequate provision for vital infrastructural projects over the next four years with particular reference to housing, road and rail networks, communications, educational and health services and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26239/17]

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: This is the reverse side of the argument. Could the Minister tell us the degree to which he hopes to be in a position to provide the necessary funding for vital infrastructural projects listed in the question.

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What is the extent to which the Minister has been able to study the urgency of the requirements in some cases as opposed to others? For example, the housing situation is extremely urgent. In two or three years' time, it will not be as urgent because the market will have caught up and supply will have improved but the current situation is urgent. A similar situation pertains to road...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects to be in a position to maintain prudent fiscal management while at the same time meeting requirements in terms of rejuvenation of the economy and wage restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26238/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Eligibility (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if other means will be accepted for a naturalisation application in view of the difficulty a person (details supplied) is having obtaining a passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26360/17]