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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for long-term residency and stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19500/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position with regard to residency and stamp 4 status in the case of a person (details supplied); if this is sufficient to accommodate a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19502/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in regard to long-term residency and eligibility for stamp 4 and naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19503/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the report on rare diseases; the parts of the recommendations already implemented or pending; the timeline for the implementation of the report in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19333/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which a decision has been made to refuse disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); if the matter can be investigated with a view to awarding payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19489/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of income derived from rental property will be reviewed in a jobseeker's allowance level of payment in view of the nature of their particular circumstances in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19501/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs payments have been restricted, even in cases in which the need clearly exists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19504/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance or invalidity pension payments are being disallowed in cases on the basis that a person has a serious disability such as an amputation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19505/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment for participants in community employment schemes whose sponsors are anxious that they continue can be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason carer's allowance has been curtailed in cases in which the carer is caring for more than one person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19508/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in regard to a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19509/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance continues to be refused in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19510/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when restoration of a widow's pension will occur in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19511/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals arising from claims of cohabitation received in her Department in each of the past five years to date; the number of cases in which the decision was overturned in favour of the applicant; the number rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19512/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 262. 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 or widower's pension when it is clear that such persons could not have remarried here unless their divorce was recognised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19513/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Data (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension refused by her Department in each of the past five years to date; if receipt of a disability allowance for a period of more than one year is no longer regarded as creating an eligibility for invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19514/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in the determination of eligibility for State pension, the practice of awarding credits in circumstances in which employers did not make the relevant contributions has been discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19515/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Deserted Wife's Benefit Data (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of deserted wife's benefit claims still in payment; the extent to which the number of recipients has been reduced other than by the death of the recipient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19516/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (3 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she can take to speed up the manner in which various appeals are being dealt with, delays regarding which can cause severe hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19517/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests. I was very interested in the very desolate picture painted by Dr. Peadar Gilligan and others. It is true and we all understand the difficulties in filling posts throughout the health services. Some of the issues have been in existence for years, even before the downturn in the economy. I served on one health board and I can recall distinctly posts being left unfilled...