Results 60,541-60,560 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Central Bank to enable applicants for mortgages to use their time in rented accommodation as a reference for the ability to service a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17651/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he expects, along with his EU colleagues, to design a benign lending system to assist economic recovery and job retention in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17652/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be necessary to invoke emergency housing procedures in order to assure the rapid delivery of direct build local authority houses on public lands in the shortest possible timescale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has considered additional measures to address the housing crisis with particular reference to the rapidly escalating house prices, the increasing number of persons seeking to purchase an affordable house and the number of applicants on local authority housing waiting list; his plans to introduce...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU and UN colleagues can alert and activate the international community to the alarming abuses of human rights across the globe affecting women and children and entire communities in which persons and groups are detained against their will and appalling atrocities are committed on a daily basis; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full return to school is now effective for all children at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18007/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for basic supplementary welfare will be re-examined in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); if permission to work will be given in the interim given the hardship Covid-19 is causing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which Ireland and other European Union member states can rely on the delivery of adequate supplies of Covid-19 vaccines to meet their urgent requirements and to ensure that contract deficiencies are replenished without delay in order to meet urgent health targets in respect of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which efforts are being made to ensure the acquisition of the number of Covid-19 vaccines initially indicated with a view to ensuring that targets indicated can be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects targets in respect of Covid-19 vaccination to be met in the next two months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18009/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied that carbon emission reduction targets are being met without damage to agrifood production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18010/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guest speakers and thank them for their presentation. Going back to the very start, when did the IDA last consult with the Department on the issue the association has just raised with us now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Was the meeting successful and satisfactory or unsatisfactory and unsuccessful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Hourihan has done very well in setting out the various aspects of the service and its needs. I have had numerous visits to Mr. Hourihan's colleagues over the last number of years and have had lots of grounds for satisfaction. I would not be a critic of the service at all; I am a strong supporter of it. My next point concerns the restricted extent to which examinations and treatment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: That answers that question. On medical cards in general and the number of patients on the cards, the number of patients has increased. Will Mr. Hourihan remind us again of the extent to which the number of has increased, which is, in other words, the extent to which the demand has increased?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: How well has the association exchanged views with the Department and the HSE on maintaining good oral hygiene and early detection and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Has Mr. Hourihan tried the avenue of strongly illustrating the importance of the service insofar as patients' general health is concerned? How well has he emphasised that when dealing with the powers that be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: On the kind of treatment that is claimable insofar as tax is concerned from the point of view of the patient, Mr. Hourihan might tell us more about root canal work. Root canal work is very intense and requires a great deal of attention, time and care. I am sure it is stressful also from the point of view of the dentist carrying it out. Has the association engaged with the Department on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Allowances are claimable for income tax purposes for extractions. Root canal work is much more expensive.