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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We will bank the questions and the witnesses can answer them later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I have a couple of comments rather than questions. I used to be involved in the health board in the old days and we used to visit all the nursing homes or, as they were called then, segregated hospitals. One point that comes to my attention all the time is the need for a standardised system that is interdependent and backed up with home help, home care, respite care and access to nursing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The Chairman will be back in a little while.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Professor O'Shea should give it his best shot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I do not mean to push Professor O'Shea, but we must be somewhere else very shortly. I would like to get to everybody as quickly as possible.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which opportunities still exist to reform the power-sharing Government in Northern Ireland; if efforts in this regard are likely to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48438/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community has intervened to address issues of war, famine, starvation, genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Horn of Africa; the effect of this intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48437/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that EU authorities, in respect of taxation and state aid, are not attempting to determine Irish taxation policy, with particular reference to the need to ensure that the taxes applied to manufacturing arising from foreign direct investment here apply only to the manufacturing that has taken place in this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the correct level of taxation applicable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48659/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to have direct contact with all parties with interest in Northern Ireland with a view to the restoration of the power sharing government and as a consequence the peace process in Northern Ireland in view of the importance of the issue for both jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he directly and in conjunction with his EU and UN colleagues have been appraised of and are engaged in the co-ordination of assistance in Yemen with particular reference to abuses of human rights, war, famine and starvation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48661/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which humanitarian abuse, war and starvation has been noted by the international community at various locations globally to date; the extent to which aid is directed at such locations; the efficacy of this aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community is geared to respond to various disasters globally from natural disasters to war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48664/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the incidents of war, ethnic cleansing, human rights abuses and the use of child soldiers continue in the Horn of Africa; if direct or indirect international aid is having a positive impact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48663/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made at international level to combat human rights abuses and the persecution of religious minorities at various locations globally including Myanmar; if specific action is required to deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48665/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the international community can bring about a stabilisation of the situation in Libya with particular reference to establishing basic democratic principles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48666/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which his attention has been drawn to the situation of a person (details supplied) imprisoned in Turkey for the alleged theft of a mobile telephone for which he was sentenced to seven and a half years; if contact has been made with the authorities there with the objective of appealing the sentence or repatriation; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish persons currently serving prison sentences throughout the Middle East; the extent to which this situation continues to be monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Irish response to Brexit remains consistent and cognisant of the need to ensure the continued application of the Single Market and customs union in view of the UK decision to leave the European Union; the likely economic impact in the event of a reintroduction of customs and border controls on this island; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (16 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which his Department continues to make preparation for Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48671/17]