Results 68,121-68,140 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and congratulate them for their presentation. It is very necessary at the present time. We have spoken about this many times in the committee recently, particularly on proposals we seem to be in a mad rush to adopt without having regard to the consequences. I congratulate the witnesses for their submission and the manner in which they have articulated it. It is hugely...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position in regard to the recovery of alleged overpayments in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (8 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in the determination of an application as part of the recent undocumented scheme in the case of a person (details supplied), who is now facing homelessness since they are unemployed due to work injury, who has paid their taxes and cannot obtain any interim support due to their status and is now...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to be confident that a food production shortage/reduction can be avoided while at the same time meeting emission targets as already set out; if he is satisfied that productive agricultural lands will not be sacrificed to meet such targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11924/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which good husbandry, production methods and hygienic requirements continue to be applied in respect of all food exports from this country and equally so in respect of imports; if he continues to be satisfied that all such provisions are being met in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11925/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of the growing population and the ever-increasing demand for housing, if he continues to monitor the situation with a view to the use of major numbers of modular houses including log-cabins where appropriate in both urban and rural areas with a view to addressing the acute and present shortage which is likely to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the National Housing Building programme in both the public and private sector can be augmented to produce at least double the number of houses anticipated in the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further steps that can be taken to dramatically increase the housing output to meet the requirements of both the public and private housing programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate given the increasing demand and pressure for housing; the extent, if any, to which he might look at the housing requirements on a county basis with a view to appointing professional builders on contract to the respective local authorities to provide and accelerate a housing programme; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department has identified issues deemed to impede the provision of much-needed affordable housing on State lands throughout the country; if he expects to be in a position to address the issue in due course; if the issues that currently impede a speedy and efficient public authority response to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the provision of utilities such as electricity and water to new houses is currently limiting progress in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the total number of houses delivered/made available to each local authority housing applicants in each of the past two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which it is expected to address the large numbers of applicants for local authority houses currently on waiting lists over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify a suite of emergency measures such as the provision of modular houses, log-cabins or other alternatives including the liberalisation of planning applications in rural areas in order to alleviate the housing crisis for locals as well as refugees in order to urgently address the situation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which the various forms of assistance available for first-time house buyers are upgrading satisfactorily without contributing to house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that can be taken to enable housing to become affordable given that persons can no longer live in Ireland due to the high cost of mortgages and rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions applied for and refused by county in each of the past four years to date; the way such figures will inform housing policy going forward, with particular reference to giving the local population a chance to live in their local area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants currently in receipt of HAP or rent support; the extent to which progress is being made to meet their housing needs directly rather than through various support schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a number of private/subsidised sites might be provided in urban and rural areas as a matter of urgency to confront the ever increasingly serious housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12223/23]