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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to regularisation of their status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51403/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to recent correspondence that issued in the case of a person (details supplied); if he will confirm receipt of documentation within the relevant section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 125. 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. [51406/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the determination of residency in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Ireland Programme (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 131. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has examined a report by an organisation (details supplied); the extent to which she expects to address the issues raised within the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51374/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Complaints Procedures (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which the social welfare investigative officer in undated correspondence to a person (details supplied) made a decision; when payments to the person will be restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51293/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Appeals (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 19 October 2017, if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in view of the logic that their second marriage could not have proceeded without evidence of divorce from the first marriage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51393/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the determination of an application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51402/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if fuel allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (30 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) are being paid as two single persons and not as a married couple; if she will review their payments to ensure the correct and highest level to which they are entitled is being paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51421/17]

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Not at all; the Deputy should not encourage me. We are lucky to have escaped from the terrible trauma we went through in the past six or seven years. It was just appalling. The people were under the cosh for all of that time - those living in urban and rural areas, young children, older people, everybody. They are now getting the first sample of recompense. I hope they will be able to...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I do not agree with my colleague on the Opposition benches regarding housing. In fact, a great deal has already been done and is being done every day. It was the neglect of the local authority housing sector over the past 15 years that has left us in this situation. When housing responsibility was handed to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to fund it by way of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: In general, I would agree on that. Having sat for so long and so often trying to assimilate all the information that has been put before us I think we should complete everything, have a review of what exactly has come to our attention and then decide on what we are going to do next. The voting comes at the very end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We have to be careful. If we are serious about the business that we are doing we have to remain serious right to the very end. We have to give it the time and energy that is necessary. We have to be realistic in what we have been doing and give the public some indication as to how they are going to come to a judgment, which is what is going to happen in any event when we have finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Thompson for attending the meeting today. It is an interesting discussion. What happens if a woman or girl presents and has not made up her mind fully or has not been counselled previously as to whether she will or will not continue with the pregnancy? Is there a facility to counsel or assist in any way? My other question relates to when there is a serious abnormality. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We were given evidence to the effect that in quite a number of cases women change their minds. Can Mr. Thompson offer them any assistance at that stage in terms of counselling? For example, must they make up their own minds or, given her general demeanour, can he assess the strength or weakness of the woman in question as to whether she is taking the right course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Thompson mentioned young women, in particular, possibly having one or two children with serious disabilities or defects. To what extent is counselling available in the case of a woman or girl having a baby who proves eventually to have serious physical or mental or both sensory and physical difficulties? Does she receive counselling as to whether she has a pre-existing condition that...