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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1045. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); when the application will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44899/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a review in respect of eligibility for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1051. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a review in respect of eligibility for a disability allowance will be concluded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44923/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1071. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a route exists by which a person can qualify for the fuel allowance on medical grounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45149/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent allowance will be reinstated as a matter of urgency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45254/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1089. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment by a person (details supplied) has been accurately reflected in the person's record; if a record of all payments made by the person in respect of this overpayment since it was assessed will be furnished to the person without delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45255/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the correct level of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45256/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds upon which it has been decided that a person (details supplied) is no longer eligible to receive disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45373/18]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: It is important that we stick as closely as possible to what we told the people when the referendum was put before them and on which they voted. Deviation from that may lead us into a situation whereby we, the committee and the Oireachtas, may well be accused of not adhering to the lines set down by the people in the referendum. There are various pros and cons and merit and demerit to the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I oppose the amendments for many reasons. At this stage, after some considerable time, we have come through debate which was long and difficult for many people throughout the country, including health professionals. We discussed this issue in the run up to the referendum wherein we referred to a GP-led service. The reason for that was to ensure the highest level of medical expertise was...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I fully respect the legal advice and the Minister's expressions on same. Notwithstanding that legal advice and having been a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which engaged in a long debate, and listened to the very impassioned positions held by people, I suggest that Deputy O'Connell's amendment No. 9 is much more accommodating of the sensitivities...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I agree with the last speaker almost in the entirety, and I know that might be strange for me to do sometimes. It would be a travesty, having regard to the debate that has taken place in this country over the past year, in particular, both in the Citizens' Assembly and in the special committee, if it were to emerge at this stage that we were to frustrate what was intended by withdrawing the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I support the concept of the amendment. A debate will occur on whether the period should be five years, four years or three years. The period needs to be sufficiently long to allow for the evaluation of the efficacy of the legislation or its lack thereof. It should be short enough to allow us to react in time without letting too much happen that should not happen. It would also give an...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I agree with the Minister. We debated this matter at considerable length during the all-party committee's hearings and it has been a particularly moot point in discussions on the issue in recent years. We were accused of being frivolous in some ways in allowing abortions to take place where they were not necessary. We need to keep two points in mind. First, a pregnant woman may suffer...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I also indicated.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: It is quite an important element of the subject matter under discussion. I do not have any absolute answers. It is an intricate medical and legislative subject. There is another issue we need to keep in mind. There are some conditions a woman may have at a particular stage during the pregnancy which accelerate very rapidly with consequent results for her health and life. A study of some...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: The Chair may withdraw my name.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I will forgo my contribution unless colleagues wish to hear from me. We have discussed the issue at great length and we await the outcome of the discussions which will take place with the Minister regarding medical and legal opinion.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget available to cater for the full extent of her Department's responsibilities including the protection of children, the monitoring of at risk cases and the follow-up as necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45721/18]