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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Development Policy (7 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which her Department can encourage investment and job creation throughout rural Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6360/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which her Department continues to liaise with the business sector throughout the regions with a view to the maximisation of investment in such a way as to enhance the opportunities for expansion in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6361/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a home care package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6200/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (7 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the requested information has been received by her Department for a rent supplement claim by a person (details supplied); if payment can issue to the person for the dates in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6248/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his reply, the contents of which I note and agree with generally. However, I believe there rests in the hands of the local authority more powers than it seems to want to exercise. In the first instance, I cannot understand the reason it takes a year for the arbitration process to be reinstated. It should have happened long ago. I do not know how long it will...

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Believe me, I have tried.

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this particularly important issue for north County Kildare, particularly for the people of Naas and the surrounding area. The question of the stalled development of the town centre of Naas has been a moot issue for several years. It is ten years since the development stopped. Various procedures have been gone through in the...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: The old-fashioned way.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Organised Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to making membership of organised criminal gangs illegal with a view to putting such members off the streets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5695/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Organised Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will invoke special powers to curtail the activities of organised criminal gangs, thereby making membership of such gangs a criminal offence with a liability for a mandatory sentence in view of the continued apparent ease with which gangland wars continue with consequent loss of life and danger to the community at large;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a changed marital status has been updated on the file of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5809/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if entitlement to legal aid exists for a person (details supplied) imprisoned in Turkey on a minor issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the ongoing gangland wars can be immobilised in one way or another; if specific emergency legislation is required; if this will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6019/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons killed in gangland associated attacks in the past ten years; his views on whether it is now time to introduce emergency legislation to deal with the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6020/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which An Garda Síochána has available the names and membership of the various criminal gangs, those involved in ongoing feuds and-or others associated with them or independent of them; if all the membership continues to benefit from criminal activity; his views on whether it is now time to take...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to proscribing the activities and membership of criminal gangs with particular reference to the urgent need to bring about a rapid cessation to the ongoing spate of violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bail Law (6 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the extension of the bail laws has affected the degree to which An Garda Síochána can effectively deal with criminal gangs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6022/18]