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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the various destinations included in Ireland’s bilateral aid programme and those in the multilateral aid programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40553/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to intervene to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers at various global locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40554/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and the international community can continue to exert pressure to bring about an amicable peace process in the Israel-Palestine conflict; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40555/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a further reconsideration of an application for naturalisation will be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if the case will be reconsidered in view of the nature of the offence, which was traffic violations. [40533/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Re-examination (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed in the case of persons (details supplied); if they will be considered for residency or work permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40535/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed to facilitate a spousal join in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40538/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision to refuse leave to remain or extended residency in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in view of the person's efforts to achieve the necessary education and competence to facilitate employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40539/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the jurisdictions with which greatest improvement of trade is likely to be achieved in the aftermath of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40549/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40537/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of disability allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40534/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 26 September 2018, if immediate steps will be taken in the case of a person (details supplied) to address the issue in view of the fact that they are surviving only on a combination of help from an organisation and child benefit; if the seriousness of this case is recognised; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Review (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if care will be taken to ensure that during the course of the review of all rent supplement cases in counties Kildare and Wicklow cognisance will be taken of the precarious housing situation that exists in the area and that a cut-off will lead to homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40541/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a carer’s allowance will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40542/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their address to the committee. I have some concern about the degree to which the consultation was evenly spread across the institutions throughout Europe. There is obviously an emphasis on regional structures, which do not exist here to the same extent, and for a long time I have thought that maybe there was an intention on somebody's part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I cannot let this matter go without making an important point. In retrospect, we say the European Union enlarged too soon. Let us consider, however, the situation 20 years ago or so and the reunification of Germany. What were the options? Should it have been left hanging loose, floating alone in that region? Should the other countries adjacent to the western Balkans have been left to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the degree to which he expects an increase in the strength of the Defence Forces with particular reference to the need to ensure maximum operational capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40067/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister, Ms Magahy and the officials and wish them well in the task they are undertaking. They need all the luck and assistance in the world. The structures that are now emerging are not exactly my first choice because the question that comes up all the time is whether the HSE is the appropriate structure to evenly deliver throughout the country the services that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: We are not doing so bad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: We will get them all right. I have raised the issue of primary care centres before. I am not certain they are capable of delivering the quality, level and extent of community care that are required. I do not know as I have not yet seen them do so. In some of the primary care centres there is not equal participation from the public sector nor equal access. That is not much good to us if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I do not welcome the demotion.