Results 64,661-64,680 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 426. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health services for children with special needs are being improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health services for persons suffering from eating disorders are developing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects Ireland's carbon reduction targets to be achievable in Ireland without adversely affecting the agrifood production sector. [7800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ukraine War (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with consequences for food supplies across Europe, has been discussed with his European Union colleagues. [15300/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which extra markets for Irish dairy, beef, lamb or pig meat need to be generated to compensate for losses arising from the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects to be in a position to ensure the ongoing development of the dairy sector having particular regard to world food shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17288/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which efforts have been made to identify the level of imports of various food and food products with a view to making provision nationally in the face of worldwide demands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17291/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the various export markets for Irish food and food products have been examined with a view to ensuring their continuity, stability and the need to ensure the availability of sufficient food and food products in the face of worldwide shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which extra cereal growing can be further encouraged in the current year with a view to achieving a self-sufficiency in animal feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17284/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which it is anticipated that the growing of more wheat and barley can be used as an animal feed after the current year’s harvest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17285/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out the anticipated extra tonnage of barley, wheat and oats that might be grown in the current year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17286/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which indications have been received regarding the extra acreage likely to be sown under barley, wheat and oats in the current year; the benefit this is likely to have on the need for imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he anticipates a reduction in carbon emissions while maintaining the agrifood sector in its ability to deliver at a time of worldwide food shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which food processing can be facilitated in a way to reduce reliance on imports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17290/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which alternative fertiliser imports can be identified with a view to ensuring a high level of farm production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the future of the beef industry while at the same time meeting carbon reduction deadlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the future for Irish lamb remains attractive in both the export and domestic markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17303/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which all food and food products imported into Ireland continue to be checked with a view to production hygiene standards and animal husbandry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which any attempted importation of food or food products not up to Irish and European standards has been identified in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17296/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pigmeat Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor production costs in the pigmeat sector; if he will provide details of the continued efforts in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17297/22]