Results 58,401-58,420 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which it is expected to avail of extra buildings to facilitate primary and second-level schools arising from Covid-19 nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21048/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the optimum number of teachers remain available to all schools nationwide in primary and post-primary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21050/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress towards the provision of an Gaelcholáiste in north County Kildare with the purpose of providing second-level education to meet the needs to the numerous Gaelscoileanna throughout the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21065/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance has been received from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will remain in payment while essential travel for three weeks for health reasons takes place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20532/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a possible termination of jobseeker’s and disability payments in the case of a person (details supplied) who will suffer considerable hardship in the event of interference with their payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21058/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Eligibility (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1050. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will qualify for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20603/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Eligibility (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1057. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will be eligible for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21060/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1470. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language and other therapy will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21053/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1085 of 14 July 2020, if the proposed or anticipated use of the land and buildings is in accordance with the wishes of the benefactor and the contract and relevant deeds arising therefrom when the property was originally gifted to the local community for their use and enjoyment; if the response to the parliamentary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1472. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the national children’s hospital project continues in line with the original contract and specification; the estimated costs associated with the project in the current and subsequent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21059/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1473. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress in relation to the next development phase of Naas General Hospital with particular reference to oncology and endoscopy and other facilities; if the necessary funding will be made available in the course of the current and future years to meet the cost of the project in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21061/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (30 Jul 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1474. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which homecare packages are likely to be enhanced to ensure best possible treatment for vulnerable age groups throughout the winter months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21066/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I will take however long the Chairman tells me to.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I will take five minutes. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming along at a difficult time in order to discuss the challenges we all face. As a representative from one of counties in the eye of the storm, I have questions about the meat industry in County Kildare in particular. Having regard to the points made by the various witnesses, the evidence given previously to the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Okay.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: The questions I raised would apply to the last respondent also.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: On a point of order, I was sharing time with a second speaker.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Presumably, the same will apply.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I am sharing time with Deputy Carroll MacNeill. I welcome the witnesses. I will bring the conversation forward and dwell less on history and more on the issues relating to the immediate outbreak in the counties concerned, particularly my county. Have the protocols been observed strictly and in accordance with the rules in the past fortnight or three weeks in respect of County Kildare and...