Results 20,001-20,020 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all issues that arose in respect of the payment of illness benefit to recipients in recent months have now been resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53835/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she can take to ensure the minimum waiting time for dealing with appeals having particular regard to the hardship caused to those awaiting decisions over long periods resulting in some cases homelessness and desperation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which backlogs have been addressed in respect of various headings and payments operated by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53837/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of long-term unemployment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53838/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which community welfare services remain readily accessible in all areas throughout County Kildare with particular reference to meeting out-of-hours and emergency needs in circumstances in which it is necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53839/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare recipients whose cases come under review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53840/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds on which non-recognition of foreign divorce can be used to refuse entitlement to widow's and widower's pension when it is clear that such a person could not have remarried here unless their divorce was recognised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53841/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will facilitate an extension of employment for participants in community employment schemes in which sponsors are anxious that they continue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53842/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which youth unemployment continues to be specifically targeted by way of ensuring the availability of maximum number of training places, internships, apprenticeships or temporary employment opportunities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she continues to take to ensure against the occurrence of overpayments that result in recovery and consequent hardship with particular reference to cases in which the overpayment was not as a result of an oversight or negligence on the part of the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53845/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (19 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of persons in receipt of family income supplement has fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53846/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he expects to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets as set by the EU and UN; if alternative energy sources have been sufficiently enhanced to meet the challenges ahead without damaging the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53154/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the three most important actions he plans to take to address the issue of climate change and carbon reduction, including the development of the alternative energy sector incentivising the transport sector to change to renewable fuels; the extent to which the domestic transport sector can be influential in this; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53171/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 274. 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [53240/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the potential for strategic afforestation to maximise carbon sequestration has been examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53455/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration can be given to the planting of species of trees with a high-carbon sequestration capacity in view of the fact that some species can absorb up to four times the amount of carbon of others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53456/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans in the context of climate action with a view to meeting the various challenges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53453/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the five most important issues by which he can positively impact on the issue of climate change with particular reference to greenhouse gas reduction in public and private transport, energy conservation in the home, domestic motoring, agriculture and forestry while continuing to protect economic output; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (18 Dec 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had discussions with the service providers in regard to the possible improvement of the quality of the mobile telephone service, with particular reference to areas with very poor service due to lack of reception and others due to overloading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53457/18]