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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5619/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which the processing of various applications for social welfare payments continues to be in line with best possible waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5764/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants for social welfare payments while the primary application is being processed in order to alleviate hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5765/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which waiting times for payments in respect of means-tested applications compare with contribution-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5766/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which emergency access to a payment is available to persons in challenging circumstances with particular reference to the ongoing impact of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the appropriate level of pandemic unemployment payment continues to remain available to qualified applicants; if the list of qualified applicants is or can be extended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the availability of exceptional needs payments in order to alleviate exceptional needs situations that have arisen in the context of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a facility can be found and arranged to expedite oral hearings online or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the State pension (contributory) awaiting decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare recipients whose cases come under review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5774/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals determined on a weekly basis; the number of appeals that arise each week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5775/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for her Department to meet increased demand arising from Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5825/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Leave to Remain (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for leave to remain in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5069/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5374/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5918/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5926/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date on the determination of an appeal for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5927/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 775. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which a comprehensive public information campaign will be launched to focus on the incidents and causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the simple procedures that might be followed and the seriousness of the particular condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5568/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 776. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the launching of a major campaign to identify and treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes throughout the country with a view to eradication much in the same way tuberculosis was eradicated notwithstanding the stress of Covid-19 on the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5569/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (3 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 513 of 21 January 2021, if it is his Department's policy not to facilitate applicants in this particular category; if the forestry in question is likely to be harvested in the normal way in view of its maturity and the shortage of timber and timber products and the applicant does not have the...