Results 55,161-55,180 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (2 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of illness benefit payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15459/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 85. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which he foresees an opportunity to introduce new schemes or the augmentation of the existing structures to direct assistance towards both urban and rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15447/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects to be in a position to augment or extend the various grants or incentives administered by his Department nationally affecting rural and urban areas with particular reference to the targeting of areas suffering from social and or economic deprivation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15626/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which he is satisfied regarding the benefit accruing to the community and rural sector arising from the various grant awards; his views on whether there is an opportunity for extension of benefit through the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15446/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which the various programmes run by his Department have benefited individual rural communities on a county basis nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15625/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons in both urban and rural communities that have accessed the support schemes operated by his Department in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15630/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects to be in a position to support applications from County Kildare for assistance under the various schemes operated by his Department in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15627/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 211. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received in his Department from County Kildare in respect of the various support schemes applicable to both urban and rural communities directly or through the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 212. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for the development of the various community support schemes operated by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15629/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next tranche of grant aid to be awarded by his Department will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15631/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the various headings under which applications for grant aid under the various schemes operated by his Department can be made; the opening and closing dates in respect of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Question Heading for question(s) 216 (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department continues to address issues such as rural and urban isolation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15633/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Broadband Scheme (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which his Department addresses such issues as local connectivity in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15634/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the EU: Dr. Catherine Day (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Dr. Day to the meeting. I have no doubt that the role she continues to play will bear good fruit in the future as it has in the past. I happened to be at a meeting in Bucharest for the past two days at which the same subject matter was up for debate. I have been attending meetings for a long time in Europe. I have been doing it for almost 40 years, when I think of it. The same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: To follow up on Deputy Murphy O'Mahony's question, who advised the Minister not to go ahead with the review programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: If senior officials or a body advises the Minister not to proceed in a particular fashion there has to be some reason because presumably the Minister erred on the side of safety to reassure the public, insofar as it can be done, which is a big issue as far as we are concerned because the public asks us questions. People do not always respond kindly if we cannot give adequate answers. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: That is not the business of the Committee of Public Accounts; that is the business of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The Committee of Public Accounts has a different function altogether. It reviews expenditure, not public policy. That is not its business at all and I would like to reiterate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I am not blaming the messenger, but a week or two ago the papers reported that almost 2,500 women were on a waiting list to be tested. Between the crisis first bursting on the scene and this week, how many of the women have been tested? I worry that we go from week to week where there is another announcement that something else has arisen or there is a pending problem and that erodes public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: How short of what is required is the service?