Results 60,321-60,340 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects Kildare County Council to have a plan to build houses for all of the applicants on its housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has formulated plans for an annual sizeable reduction in the number of applicants on the Kildare County Council housing waiting list by way of a house building programme; if so, the number of applicants likely to be facilitated as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has considered plans for the protection and restoration of heritage structures and listed buildings which might be deemed at risk throughout Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he plans to restore listed buildings deemed to be at risk by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12449/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the development of local authority serviced and subsidised sites as a means of dealing with the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12447/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland, through the UN, has focused on various worldwide abuses of human rights including the use of child soldiers, trafficking in women and young girls, the use of rape as method of war, ethnic cleansing, genocide and total disregard for democratic principles; if the international courts are being used to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects Ireland as a member of the UN Security Council to be in a position to focus on the various worldwide abuses of human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects Ireland to use its position on the UN Security Council to highlight and challenge international trafficking in women and children, the suppression of human rights, the disregard for the rule of law and the imprisonment on spurious grounds of various ethnic or other groups; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action taken to date by the international community to assist a person (details supplied); if the EU and UN will intercede on their behalf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken or in hand by the EU and UN to address the situation in Myanmar in which the president has been deposed; if action will be taken against the instigators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12453/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the UN can be reformed to assert itself as a human rights defender at various conflict locations globally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12454/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which a peace process is proposed in the Middle East with particular reference to the need to ensure the existence of a body to which complaints can be reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12455/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the international community can devise a means by which atrocities punishable by law can be referred quickly to the international courts with a view to bringing about a cessation of such violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if preparations will be made to refer the perpetrators of the various conflicts and abuses of human rights which appear to be going unchallenged by the international community to the International Criminal Court; the number of locations and perpetrators globally who fall into such a category; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the attention of the international community has been drawn to the atrocities taking place in Yemen; the actions taken or pending to bring the perpetrators to justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community can take action to bring about a cessation of atrocities in Ethiopia and Sudan; if the perpetrators will be referred to the International Criminal Court such as happened in Liberia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12458/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the top twenty most serious locations globally in which conflict and crimes against humanity are most prevalent; the extent of efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice through the EU or UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12460/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps now being taken to restore the status of the UN as an internationally respected entity in peacekeeping or peace enforcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12462/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which UN peacekeeping forces can be relied upon to protect persons at various locations in which abuses are currently taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12463/21]