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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I agree it is unacceptable that families or individuals with a life-threatening illness, have to go back again and again to refill forms while a medical or some other kind of expert decides they do not yet qualify. It is not good enough. It impacts negatively on the health of the patient at the time. It is especially unacceptable they have to get a letter stating the person only has six...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Deputies Mattie McGrath, Michael Collins, Michael Healy-Rae and O’Donoghue each have two minutes.

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We will let you in.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We will now go back to Question No. 1, which is being taken by Deputy Daly on behalf of Deputy Martin Kenny.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Parole Boards (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Question No. 3 in the name of Deputy Martin Kenny will be taken by Deputy Pa Daly

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which current reforms of the family law courts might entail protection for mothers in respect of section 47 reports-parental alienation issues; if it is expected to ensure that ample opportunity is given to ensure the protection of children in such circumstances and prevention of any action which might result in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: This question relates to a disgraceful and disgraced formula invented by a gentleman in the United States some years ago that is now used in the family law courts as a means of resolving and readjusting the minds of parents and children in the event of a divorce or separation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for that detailed reply. I also acknowledge the work of the Minister, Deputy McEntee, in this area as well. There is a problem, however, and it is urgent. I refer to what to do about the children and their mothers, or fathers, who have been before the courts in the context of some cases where gardaí were ordered by the courts to go into classrooms, take the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Court Procedures (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The sad and tragic fact in these types of situations is that not only are the children treated as pawns, but they are also treated in the way that previous generations treated children in concentration camps. Their minds are taken to be reformed and reoriented in such a way that they will see a disadvantage as being an advantage, and vice versa. This leads to a situation of confusion,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: This question I am taking for Deputy Bruton seeks to ascertain the impact to date of new approaches to crime in areas of high incidence of crime and of high risk of young people being permanently involved in crime, and what are the results.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (6 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: By way of supplementary, I ask the extent to which the Minister and her Department have evaluated the measures to distract young people away from a life of crime. How successful are they? Is there evidence of a metric being taken to enable the Department and Deputy Humphreys, as Minister, to find out how successful the programmes are?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for the fuel allowance in the case of persons (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61081/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for the carer’s allowance in the case of persons (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61082/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if early intervention services will be urgently provided in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61108/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the cost of farm inputs, including fuel and fertilisers, with a view to identifying how best to meet the challenges of issues arising from the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61278/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I seek to ascertain the extent to which the Minister monitors the cost of inputs to farms, how it affects farm income and what efforts can be made to ameliorate these issues.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Has an audit been done on the impact of the various price increases on farm inputs, including energy? What can be done specifically in each and any case to reduce the impact? How much of a positive impact has been noticed in the agrifood sector as a result of these interventions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Supports (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I congratulate the Minister on the tillage incentive which is hugely important. Based on the information available to the Minister and Department, what are the most likely areas of difficulty in the coming 12 months? How can the supports the Minister has introduced be redirected, if necessary, to ensure the maximum benefit for those who depend on the farm for their income?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he hopes to mitigate carbon reduction requirements by way of enhanced sequestration, thereby ensuring the viability of the agrifood sector while at the same time meeting carbon-reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61277/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Sector (8 Dec 2022)

Bernard Durkan: My question seeks to ascertain the extent to which tree-growing can contribute to sequestration, despite the concerns or expressions to the contrary to the effect that it is an important feature of the energy and forestry industries.