Results 67,541-67,560 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for jobseeker's benefit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2728/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be facilitated in the pending appeal of a person (details supplied); if all reckonable contributions paid to date by the person have been used in the calculation of his entitlement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way arrears for disability allowance and carer's allowance have been calculated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds upon which visas were refused in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to issue; the reason for the delay is issuing visas to date; the plans that are in place to address this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any plans that may be under way to ensure adequate support is provided to home dialysis-patients in the context of the current energy and cost-of-living crisis to ensure that they continue to receive their lifesaving and sustaining treatment at home, and can afford same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2713/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 488. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any plans that are under way to ensure to include home dialysis-patients in the long-term illness scheme, as they carry out their own lifesaving and sustaining treatment at home at a significant savings to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 501. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting dermatology service in each of the main hospitals; the extent to which modern services continue to be made available through the private or public sector; if the most efficient use of both services is being availed of at present; if administrative changes are required to maximise the availability of expertise in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 502. To ask the Minister for Health when tonsillectomy might be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2771/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 578. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the national review of cardiac services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2987/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if an increased home care package can be provided as soon as possible in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3119/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: And Kildare.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I acknowledge the Minister of State's reference to Kildare North, which is his neighbouring constituency. I ask him to keep it in mind because of the rapidly increasing population and the demand that follows that in terms of sports capital grants, equipment grants and swimming pools, on which we were unfortunate in the past. I ask the Minister of State to look favourably on his next-door...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 14. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she continues to take to ensure that tourism is given every opportunity to develop and grow in the future notwithstanding the future challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3639/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: My question seeks to ascertain the extent to which the Minister can encourage the tourism industry to expand to meet the widest possible market and to encourage various aspects of tourism where an advantage can be gained. I ask that in the context of our recovery from the Covid-19-related lockdowns and the industry's prospects for the future.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. There are two aspects I would like to concentrate on by way of a supplementary question. The first relates to niche tourism and particularly the use of large country houses. There is considerable scope for niche tourism in that regard. Some of those houses have taken those opportunities and others have not. I also raise the development of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to raise the contentious issue of the large number of women throughout the country who are involved in custody battles and find themselves forcibly removed from their children, sometimes arrested, sometimes imprisoned, and sometimes this happens to their children likewise. I want to ascertain to what extent efforts can be made to dislodge the use of a pseudo-condition introduced by an...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Both.

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I agree in general with the comments of Deputy Hourigan. There are those outside this House who would advise that this was a done deal which cannot be reversed, that Europe has responded favourably to it and so on. It is amazing that a country outside the European Union, where this particular financial house resides, has the ability to overstep the border and make a sizeable investment that...