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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority housing developments of accommodation under construction by local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37729/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct build local authority houses likely to become available, by county, in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37733/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of likely local authority housing starts that can possibly take place in the next six months by county but with particular reference to those counties immediately adjacent to Dublin which are already heavily overburdened with applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37734/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses commenced and-or built by each local authority in 2019; the way in which the number related to the number of eligible persons on a waiting list of the local authorities in question; the extent to which the number will be increased in the future; the extent to which it is expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Applications Data (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing applicants registered with the various local authorities throughout the country in each of the past three years to date; the number housed by the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37730/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that have made an application for Rebuilding Ireland loans; the number granted, refused and pending, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which Rebuilding Ireland loans are available, now and in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37732/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he can take to enable first-time or family home buyers to be in a better position to compete with investors in the purchase of their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37735/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (17 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he and his Department are in a position to monitor the number of families or persons becoming homeless or at risk thereof in all areas across the country; the specific measures he plans to deal with this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37737/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the staff of the Ceann Comhairle's office for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue which is of importance to the people of north Kildare, to wit, the urgent need for the augmentation of Garda strength in the constituency for which I speak. The constituency includes four large towns, each with a population approaching or in excess of 20,000,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State and his colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, for the positive nature of the reply. One of the areas that needs to be emphasised is the need for juvenile liaison officers. Given that we have a large population of young people who are not going anywhere and will remain young for some time, it is necessary to introduce all the aids we can to assist...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Smith for offering the opportunity to speak in this very important debate. I do not go along with some of the things said, although I agree with many of them. I particularly want to congratulate the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs on the manner in which they have handled the negotiations to date through the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: As an addendum to that, with regard to referrals coming from private patients entering the system or requiring urgent treatment, is there a culture in the public health sector to refer these patients elsewhere rather than deal with them in the event that their condition requires urgent and necessary treatment because I have come up against that and would like some clarification? I believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I am speaking in a wider context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: They are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I know that. If a private patient is in a difficult or dire situation requiring urgent treatment that is available in the public system, will that private patient be referred to the public system or will he or she be told "Sorry, you're a private patient. Go through the private sector"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: My question was whether there is a culture of referral elsewhere in the event of a patient in a serious condition requiring urgent treatment. Such a patient, being a private patient elsewhere, deserves and requires treatment of an emergency nature immediately, not when somebody has decided that the patient is private and will be dealt with differently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I have great respect for Dr. McKenna and I accept he genuinely believes that, but I have evidence to the effect that that is not the case. I am aware of a patient who was transported to this country from abroad in an emergency but who was refused access to the public health sector even though the expertise required to deal with the patient was in the public sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I strongly support that principle. The condition of the patient should be paramount in the determination of where, how and when treatment is given. I return to the issue of accreditation. INAB deals with accreditation and has a series of stages, although I will not list them. When tests were first referred to the Manchester laboratory, was its status sought? When did the first...