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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of naturalisation application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 287. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 288. To ask the Minister for Health if a submission for funding to provide the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need in the National Service Plan 2021 was received from the HSE PCRS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Health if he is expecting a submission for funding from the HSE primary care reimbursement service to provide the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need for inclusion in the National Service Plan 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26116/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a submission from the HSE primary care reimbursement service recommending that the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system is made available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26117/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings that have been held in 2020 and 2021 between the manufacturers of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system and the HSE primary care reimbursement service in relation to making the technology available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; the outcomes of these meetings; and if he will make a...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle and I have learned a lot about housing over the years. We have put many of those things into practice in our own constituencies over the years, and they worked. However, approximately 20 years ago, the emphasis on the right to own a house fell away. A great deal of emphasis and advertising went into the glories of renting and how wonderful it is to rent. Even in recent...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this very important matter, which is the balance between achieving our carbon reduction targets on one hand and retaining our agrifood production sector on the other. Both are equally important and need to be achieved, and both can be achieved provided we all go in the same direction and create opportunities to do what...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It illustrates the extent to which co-operation between the two objectives can be so helpful to the economy and to the quality of life, air and water throughout the country. I thank the Minister of State again, but I would also point out that it might not be a bad idea to engage with the farming community and the agrifood sector on a different...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a plan to dramatically increase the supply of houses at the earliest possible date in order to address the issue of affordable houses for first-time buyers in view of the levels of inflation in the housing market rendering it virtually impossible for first time home seekers to provide themselves with an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which major building contractors can be employed to build affordable houses for sale or for rent to suitably qualified persons on lands made available through the local authorities in order to address the most urgent aspects of the housing shortage which is likely to remain for the foreseeable future; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he through the EU and UN continues to press for a serious investigation into the numerous human rights violations now taking place throughout the globe; if Ireland’s position on the UN Security Council can be used to press these issues at an early date; if the international criminal courts in the Hague can be...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Good Friday Agreement (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Irish and British Governments are currently engaging with the authorities and communities in Northern Ireland with a view to ensuring the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol which was brought about as a result of Brexit; if all those involved can apply themselves to this important task as a matter of urgency...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if and when a renewal work permit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34224/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if and when a renewal work permit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 234. 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. [34178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 235. 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 lists; his plans to introduce...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average price of a house now deemed to be in the affordable category; the number built, acquired or under construction at present throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34181/21]