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Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: The amendment is accepted, subject to conditions.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I just want to spice up the debate a little bit. It gets dull from time to time.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy O'Dea is making great headway today.

Message from Select Committee (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018 and has made amendments thereto.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There is a danger that the debate is drifting off in a direction which was never intended. In the Second Reading of a Bill one can suggest what should be in the Bill, one can complain about what is not in the Bill and one can announce what one intends to do on Committee Stage. However, we are gone past that. We are now in a situation I have never seen before, where it has been suggested in...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There is the maternal bond. Everyone here had a mother.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: It is implicit in what is being said. Everybody here had a mother. Everybody here has siblings - sisters and brothers. There is no use trying to get away from this. We either face up to the reality or we do not.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: There were particular circumstances where a young woman found herself in a desperate situation, with nowhere to go, with no help from any quarter. The only place to go was across the water, to leave the country or disappear into what were once the Magdalen laundries or the mother and baby homes. It is time we grew up a little. It is time we learned that women had lives as well, that they...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Let us assume this woman found herself, as women have done before, in a hospital situation when a crisis arises, and everybody stands around saying, "What have we the right to do? Where do we go?". They ask whether this woman has any rights or whether they have been set aside for some future discussion in court or at an inquest, or whatever the case may be. I plead with the Members who are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider introducing legislation to ensure that women alleging sexual offences are treated fairly and in accordance with the law and are not the victims of colourful courtroom vernacular demonstrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49813/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate resources continue to be made available to An Garda Síochána at organisational level and technical level to enhance its ability to tackle organised crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49812/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be granted to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49894/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Expulsions (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure to be followed by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50015/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it will be possible to progress the case for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49995/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a temporary residency status will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50002/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider the regularisation of residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50003/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it will be possible to approve residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Leave to Remain (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when long term residency or an alternative will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50005/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when long-term residency will be extended in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50006/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an upgrade of residency status will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50007/18]