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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided by her Department by way of rent support to families on local authority housing lists over the past fifteen years since responsibility for such payments in lieu of housing were entrusted to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51208/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus will be paid; and to which categories of social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of youth unemployment throughout the country, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51210/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which persons that have lost their one-parent family allowance have had their cases reviewed to ensure the elimination of hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51211/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals in respect of various payments awaiting a decision for more than two months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51212/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeal decisions in respect of various refusals for payments that have been overturned on appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51213/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes are required in the criteria governing cohabitation with a view to ensuring that hardship is not caused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51214/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: In general, I would agree on that. Having sat for so long and so often trying to assimilate all the information that has been put before us I think we should complete everything, have a review of what exactly has come to our attention and then decide on what we are going to do next. The voting comes at the very end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We have to be careful. If we are serious about the business that we are doing we have to remain serious right to the very end. We have to give it the time and energy that is necessary. We have to be realistic in what we have been doing and give the public some indication as to how they are going to come to a judgment, which is what is going to happen in any event when we have finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Thompson for attending the meeting today. It is an interesting discussion. What happens if a woman or girl presents and has not made up her mind fully or has not been counselled previously as to whether she will or will not continue with the pregnancy? Is there a facility to counsel or assist in any way? My other question relates to when there is a serious abnormality. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We were given evidence to the effect that in quite a number of cases women change their minds. Can Mr. Thompson offer them any assistance at that stage in terms of counselling? For example, must they make up their own minds or, given her general demeanour, can he assess the strength or weakness of the woman in question as to whether she is taking the right course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Thompson mentioned young women, in particular, possibly having one or two children with serious disabilities or defects. To what extent is counselling available in the case of a woman or girl having a baby who proves eventually to have serious physical or mental or both sensory and physical difficulties? Does she receive counselling as to whether she has a pre-existing condition that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I note the Chair was shown a video when she was at school. I can assure her that in my time in school, videos were banned, they did not exist and even certain films were, at the very best, of dubious benefit to all ages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We will not go there. I am conscious of that. I do have a particular interest in this subject because I have put down numerous parliamentary questions on the subject, as some of our guests will know. We have had information that children did not seem to have a proper sex education in school. That is a bland statement that may be right or it may be wrong. I got an email or text from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: It is a question. I am not waiting for conformation of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: What way would the chair like me to ask the question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I expect a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is that being done currently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Just because I was deprived of a video in my youth does not mean I should l not ask another question.