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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for the pandemic unemployment payment can be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29330/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of payment including the jobseeker’s allowance, Covid-19 related support payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29277/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the retention of the Garda roster in place since the beginning of lockdown; if changes should be made so as to enable community gardaí to be out on the beat when they are needed as opposed to being out when they can as a result of the existing roster; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29289/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appeal will be reinstated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to regularise residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29548/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry application in the case of a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29547/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister and wish him well in his unenviable role in the current climate. All roles are enviable or unenviable as the case may be. My first question relates to the extent to which he foresees the need to borrow and the degree to which he may approach limits. I am not asking him to give an indication as to what the limits are, if he thinks it is unwise to answer that question....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I refer to capital expenditure. The Minister compared previous experiences. He has available to him borrowing capacity that was not available ten years ago. Does he intend to use that proactively in order to, as it were, nudge the areas we can develop and need to develop, particularly health, housing and education, in the future? A failure to make capital...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. Given the availability of borrowing at low or zero interest rates and the fact that commercial banks do not apply these rates directly to private borrowers, does the Minister think it is advantageous or advantageous to him, in his capacity as Minister, to have the lower rate prevail in this country as is available to other European countries, in particular members of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I am asking about the two. To what extent does borrowing for the Government impact negatively or positively on the fact we pay approximately 2% for our borrowings in the private market?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: It is of no benefit to the Government from the point of view of sovereign borrowings to have interest rates charged to the industrial borrower here at higher rates than apply in the rest of Europe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: We look forward to the banks charging the lower rates applicable in the rest of Europe. I have a final question. Given the current situation in regard to Covid, the Minister may have to go back to the borrowing well again and again. I am not saying that is the right thing to do; he will have to make that judgment as the situation evolves. Is the Minister satisfied that we have available to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Capital works associated with public expenditure will arise from Brexit in the development of facilities at ports and airports, some of which will be capital while others may be current expenditure. Is the Minister satisfied the Government will be in a position to provide adequately for anything arising from that quarter, given the fluid circumstances that exist?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Turning to Rosslare Europort and possibly Cork Harbour, a place dear to his good self, is the Minister satisfied the Government will be in a position to make alternative provisions in those two areas, in light of the need to bypass the UK land bridge?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Questions are continually raised about the staffing levels in hospitals throughout the country, given their challenges to meet both Covid-related issues and ongoing related issues such as the filling of consultant posts, nursing posts or whatever is required. There are, allegedly, a number of posts to be filled that could be essential in dealing with the issues ahead. Is the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (13 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the back to education allowance can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (13 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance application will be examined with a view to payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30183/20]