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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families homeless and on Kildare County Council's housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47383/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which each local authority can make available developed housing sites for families in a position to meet their own housing needs by way of self-build; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47384/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have sought additional capital for the acquisition of building lands on which it might be proposed to build local authority houses as opposed to through the aegis of approved housing bodies; the degree to which previously owned local authority lands have been utilised for exclusively local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to be in a position to revise upwards the income limits appertaining to eligibility for local authority houses and local authority loans in view of the extent to which such applicants are currently excluded and forced into the private rental market, which they cannot afford; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that adequate structural guarantees now exist in the building sector to protect the consumer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47387/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Committee of the Regions: Discussion. (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the members of the delegation and compliment them on the work they are doing in liaising with their colleagues in Europe. The importance of that work needs to be emphasised. It is extremely important for parliamentarians and local authority members across Europe to interact with each other in order to be up to speed on what affects them in their own place. That gives them an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Committee of the Regions: Discussion. (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Gerry Murray referred to rural Ireland and population decline. This stems from economics. The economic experts will tell us that we can provide services for 100,000 people in a very small space, but not in a widely spread rural area. That is not necessarily true because packing a population into too small a space has other consequence with which we unfortunately have to deal. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister and the officials from the Department and the HSE. I fully appreciate the quality of the service provided throughout the health services at all levels and the degree to which staff are dedicated to their role. I worry about the deployment of personnel, an issue I have raised on many occasions in the past. To what extent does the deployment of staff, resources...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: That is not what is stated in my reply. Where have the increased number of staff been deployed? Have they been deployed in the areas most in need of additional staff? From my time in public life, there have been long periods where we have been told by experts that we needed less hospital beds. That was a mantra up to seven or eight years ago. I do not know why that was the case, but it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Are the part-time staff not paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Sometimes they are paid more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I used to be a member of a health board once upon a time and I always foresaw confusing replies. I am confused now. I raised the question as to whether those part-time staff are being paid. We have to quantify them in terms of whole-time equivalents in the system. Do we have the numbers in the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There were 29,000 fewer people working in the health service three to four years ago. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: We are splitting hairs. I would like to be clear. I am trying to find out exactly how many people were employed in the health services in 2014 or 2015 and to compare the number with how many people are employed now. There has been a considerable increase, ranging from 25% to 28%. That has to make a difference. That should be reflected in the delivery of the services to the public. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There is no extra cost involved in more people filling the same number of positions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There is no reliance on agency staff to fill those posts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: How many agency placements are there on a normal week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Agency staff cost more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: How much is that premium?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I ask Mr. Connaghan to address my question on unused accommodation.