Results 59,641-59,660 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 448. 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. [43127/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in respect of 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. [43187/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43367/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical grounds on which referral for specialist services abroad has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied); the actions proposed, given that the course of treatment currently in place is not working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for a public health nurse to call again to a person (details supplied); if this can be arranged as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43397/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 692. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she expects the LEADER funds to be of assistance to the various community groups throughout 2020 or in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 693. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have interacted with various community based groups in County Kildare with a view to easy access to LEADER or other support funds in 2020 having particular regard to the challenges of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 694. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps she has taken or plans to take to reach out to locally based community and voluntary organisations throughout the country with a view to ensuring access to available support from her Department in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43507/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 695. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have provided funds for rural and community groups throughout County Kildare to date in 2020 whether through Covid-19 support payment or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43508/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 696. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost value of supports made available by her Department to date in 2020 to rural community-based groups throughout the country in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43509/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 697. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has focused on specific areas of deprivation in urban or rural community sectors; the extent to which she has been in a position to offer assistance in one way or another to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 698. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have identified specific areas or instances of urban or rural isolation throughout the country in the past year; the efforts made to assist current or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43511/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 703. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department have focused on rural isolation with a view to remedial measures; the extent of assistance offered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43516/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 699. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has identified specific local initiatives throughout the country worthy of support by her Department since its inception; her ongoing proposals in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43512/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 701. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which her Department has identified specific local initiatives in County Kildare worthy of support by her Department since its inception; her ongoing proposals in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 700. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications nationwide for various supports available to her Department received in the past six months; the extent to which she has been in a position to respond to such requests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43513/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 702. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications from County Kildare for various supports available to her Department received in the past six months; the extent to which she has been in a position to respond to such requests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 704. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll out of the libraries programme; the progress to date in respect of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43519/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues in Ireland: Central Bank (15 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for appearing before the committee and giving us the benefit of their knowledge. I, like others in this room, have been critical of the Central Bank over a long period in the past. This is not personal and I do not want any of the witnesses to take it as personal, but there are issues which public representatives have had to face which were unusual, to say the least....

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: We have three slots left, for the Government, Sinn Féin, and the Independent group. The Government slot is not being taken up so I call Deputy Gould.