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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I wonder why they died so. However, I will put my last question to Ms Zampas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Does Ms Zampas accept the necessity for adequate medical and psychological counselling before and after abortion, in the event of abortion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for coming before us and giving a very enlightened appraisal of the situation. Two things occurred to me. One was the scale of notifications, which Mr. Healy referred to in his opening statement. In 2016, 8,000 notifications of safeguarding concerns were submitted to the safeguarding teams. To what extent were they investigated adequately and satisfactorily? Was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Of the 8,000 reported, were they speedily investigated and comprehensively reported upon afterwards to the satisfaction of those who made the report in the first instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: If I may make a quick comment on a matter I did not refer to earlier, decongregation is the flavour of the era in which we live but I would warn that the alternatives are expensive and require supervision equal to that which exists in institutions. As it stands, there is evidence to suggest that those who were institutionalised in the past may well be sleeping work or on the homeless list at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I will. I agree with most everything else but I want to mention to Mr. Taylor that I have been down this road and have examined the barracks and the conditions therein in the past. I have also looked at the alternatives and the conditions therein, or thereout as the case may be now. It is a sad reflection on our society that we have displaced people to move them, theoretically, to a better...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: As a reformed smoker, I probably should comment on this resolution. Smoking has been proven beyond doubt to be bad for people's health. The evidence has been there for a long time. I do not agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett that we should go after the producers. There would be no need to produce if there were no consumers. Consumer, unfortunately, become the victims in two ways, for reasons...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I note the points raised by a number of Deputies about how it might apply to agricultural farmland. My understanding was it did not apply to agricultural farmland but the points raised are valid enough to require that it be double checked. It might well affect in a negative way the transfer of agricultural land which we would not want. I ask the Minister to take note of something I have...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Intangible Assets (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: One thing we should all remember is the danger of assuming a very simple way of getting extraordinary amounts of revenue from an unexpected source. Our 12.5% profits tax is well known and well recognised globally. It has worked extremely well for us in this country, it continues to work and I hope it will work for us well in the future. However, another issue is arising now, namely,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance if a primary medical certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42602/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an eligible concessionary school ticket or transport can be facilitated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42791/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a stamp 4 application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a deportation order in the case of persons (details supplied) can be set aside; if their case can be urgently reviewed and considered with a view to stamp 4 status. [42400/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) who is here awaiting a decision for eighteen years can be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if temporary residency status can be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); if their case can be examined on humanitarian grounds, in view of the fact they are receiving specialised medical treatment here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new application for residency status has been received from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the decision to grant stamp 0 status in the case of a person (details supplied); if stamp 0 status can be replaced by stamp 4 in the circumstances in view of the fact the person's family are Irish citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will grant naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will grant naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42410/17]