Results 70,541-70,560 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland’s emissions have been reduced in the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50484/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which carbon reduction measures to date are positively impacting on Ireland’s targets in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50487/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which it can be found possible to ensure that electricity providers pass on any further reduction in price inflation to the consumer as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50485/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland’s carbon reduction targets are currently in line with other European countries given commitments entered into; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50489/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which wind and solar electricity generating targets are being realised at present; the extent to which such generation can be accelerated in the short to medium term, with particular reference to the expected contribution to the national grid over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the alternative the energy electricity generating programme continues at pace, with particular reference to availing of wind generation, onshore and offshore; the precise extent to which this capacity has increased or is increasing, with a view to maximisation at the earliest possible date; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which wind or solar electricity generation farms continue to be encouraged in the short, medium and long term, with a view to contributing to and stabilising the national grid given requirements likely in the next ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commercial Rates (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether any action is proposed in respect of commercial rate payers, who have only recently have had their rateable valuations increased and who now find themselves marginally short of relief announced in Budget 2024, to the effect that the proposed relief stops suddenly, as opposed to a graduated period within which they may...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he might review the situation whereby housing applicants on being approved for HAP are being informed that they are being removed from the housing list in which case they have no security in the event that the HAP facility falls through and they have difficulty retaining their original position on the housing list; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when carer’s allowance might be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50468/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when disability allowance or basic allowance can be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether illness benefit or disability allowance can or will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50471/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether an urgent review/appeal is possible in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment can be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50473/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment can be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the refusal of application for a top up pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50479/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50467/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current or proposed residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50476/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if family reunification will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (16 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions currently being taking by her Department to tackle gender-based violence; whether initial targets in this regard are ambitious enough, with particular reference to the silent and ongoing nature of this issue and the serious shortcomings identified by Grevio, the monitoring body of the Istanbul Convention; and if...