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Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for family reunification will be concluded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35352/08]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency will conclude in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35353/08]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency and citizenship will conclude in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35354/08]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the necessary documentation will issue in the case of an application for residency in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35355/08]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress in the case of an application for leave to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35356/08]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress in the case of an application for residency and other status in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35357/08]

Written Answers — : (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that due process is being followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35358/08]

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the historical, cultural and recreational significance of Donadea Forest Park, Donadea, County Kildare in the ownership of Coillte Teo; if he has received communication from his ministerial colleagues or local community support groups in the context of a comprehensive development...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis on which rent supplement has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35363/08]

Written Answers — National Parks: National Parks (16 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the historical, cultural and recreational significance of Donadea Forest Park, Donadea, County Kildare in the ownership of Coillte Teo; if he has received communication from his ministerial colleagues or local community support groups in the context of a comprehensive development plan to...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Like the last speaker, I think the Opposition must proceed to a great extent on trust. We trust that the required information is being made available to the Minister and that he has demanded the right degree of information and undertakings from the banks and other financial institutions. I am not so sure, however, and I remain sceptical. I am one of the three remaining Members of the House...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: He should not be appalled, however, because it is a fact. If what I am saying is untrue, the obvious question we must pose is why the regulator and the governor were not fired for not doing their jobs. This country is in a woeful mess. The Minister for Health and Children told the House yesterday that the country is in a serious financial crisis. She is not in opposition, she is a member...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy need not bother opening his mouth on this subject because he was in that Department and is culpable also. As a former Minister of State at the Department of Finance, he was part and parcel of it so he should not go there.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: In the last debate on this matter, the Minister was asked to give undertakings, but he was vague about it. My conclusion is that he could not get those undertakings, for example, regarding the degree of exposure of the lending institutions, their solvency and liquidity. All these matters keep recurring. I do not know if the Minister received any such guarantees, but he should not be coy...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: We are all aware of that.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: That would never happen.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Last week, the Minister told the House that prior to establishing this scheme he would instruct his departmental officials to investigate the situation in the Central Bank and the Office of the Financial Regulator. What was the extent of the investigation and how many investigators were involved prior to the introduction of the scheme? What was the outcome of the investigation? What...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Has the investigation to which I referred taken place? That was my question.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: I refer to the Minister's official investigation.