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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it continues to be possible to address particularly sensitive issues in respect of family income and the cost-of-living impact; if she is satisfied regarding the adequacy of her Department's resources to address such circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33374/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Support Services (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs’ payments are available in cases where family income is insufficient to meet requirements including funeral expenses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33375/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applications for the State pension (contributory) received in each of the past five years to date; the number granted, refused or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33376/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Care Services (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the carer's allowance has been improved to meet requirements of more persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33378/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Support Services (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the return of the funeral bereavement grant may be envisaged other than by way of an exceptional needs payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33379/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants of social welfare payments while the primary application is being processed in order to alleviate hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33380/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which waiting times for payments in respect of means-tested applications compare with contribution-related payments; the extent of progress in reducing waiting times for means-tested payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33381/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current total number of recipients of child benefit payments; the extent to which this has fluctuated over the past three years, and is likely to so do in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision continues to be made for those retiring at 65 years of age; the extent of any recent progress in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33383/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate, notwithstanding replies to previous Parliamentary Questions on behalf of a person (details supplied), whether the circumstances might be urgently considered with a view to granting the pension in question given the evidence already submitted and being submitted, and that they continue to be a medical card...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) might be granted a temporary visa to assist with their mother’s obsequies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33392/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa appeal might be granted in the name of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa appeal might be granted in the name of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33394/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I speak on this legislation for different reasons. My views do not coincide with the views of many of the other speakers we have just heard, but for a different reason. I believe if the State passes legislation giving effect to any service for anything, in any way, shape or form, the public have a right to access that service by right, not at the behest of somebody who wants to protest...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is not and if the Deputy wants to read his history, go back to the 1930s in central Europe and read carefully what was said. Again and again it was spoken about and where did it lead? It led to conflagration of the most awful type ever known on the face of this earth. It is not true to say freedom of expression should come first or foremost and we can express hate of one another....

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: There was a war in Rwanda. It started because some serious religious person decided he hated everybody all around him. He set up a radio station and preached for six months or so before igniting the cauldron that came about.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: You are on the wrong end of the argument. Five hundred thousand people were beheaded.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Half a million people lost their lives in order to prove a point. What point? Freedom of speech, freedom of expression and that one person had the right to hate another openly, which obviously draws a response. That is where the problem is not being addressed by the Members opposite. I have some reservations, though I will vote for the legislation. I have a different reason for having...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on this attendance at the recent European Council meeting. [32445/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will the Minister of State indicate the extent, if any, to which there is ongoing intensive research into alternative and value-added uses for wool, given that it has almost come to a standstill on the market? Has this been investigated to the extent that it should be? To what degree have alternative uses been researched? What were the results, if any, of that research? What is likely to...