Results 24,481-24,500 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he expects extra local authority houses to become available in the course of the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to address the acute problem of the local authority housing shortage in the short-term with particular reference to the need to identify more ambitious targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45481/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he entered into dialogue with the local authorities with a view to ensuring the immediate implementation of a local authority housing programme sufficient to address the problem of homelessness and to reduce the existing local authority housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has offered the option of modular housing to the local authorities that have long housing waiting lists; if so, the uptake in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which rapid build or modular housing has been offered to Kildare County Council having regard to the seriousness of the housing situation in view of the fact that this will not improve unless steps are taken to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which planning procedures can be expedited to facilitate the building of extra local authority houses with particular reference to the need to make an impact on the numbers on local authority waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he might authorise the reintroduction of the rural housing programme, with particular reference to those on the local authority housing lists coming from a rural area being facilitated by way of a programme to ensure that they might be housed in their own area rather than adding to the waiting lists in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which serviced or serviceable lands, zoned or unzoned, have been identified by each of the local authorities in the greater Dublin area to facilitate a rapid build housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the number of families deemed homeless in County Kildare are likely to achieve accommodation in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which emergency housing accommodation is available to Kildare County Council to accommodate the increasing emergency housing need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45486/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects to meet the imminent housing demand following the displacement of persons from private accommodation for a variety of reasons, including repossession and the immediate needs of such persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress over the past six months in respect of the town centre, Naas, County Kildare, with particular reference to the urgent need to restart the project and encourage a major anchor tenant into the centre, thereby facilitating the reinvigoration of the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45487/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families rehoused by Kildare County Council in each of the past two years to date in 2017, excluding the use of voids; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45488/17]

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school building programme requirements at primary and second level have been identified in all areas throughout the country with particular reference to immediate requirements in the next 12 months; the extent to which he expects to meet such requirements within the specified period and in line with requirements as set...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: This question relates to the extent to which the Minister expects to be able to meet the building programme requirements in all schools throughout the country, at primary and second level, with particular reference to the most urgently challenged areas from a demographic point of view.

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. What is the degree to which his Department can avail of modern building techniques with a view to making economic sense and also having regard to the need to ensure buildings are of lifetime duration rather than the temporary prefabricated buildings to which we had become accustomed over the years? What is the degree to which he expects that...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister satisfied that the most urgently required replacement schools are likely to be delivered at an early date or within a given time, given that during the period of the downturn in the economy it was not always possible to attend to those with the degree of urgency that they would have ordinarily required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Professor O'Keane for her very interesting submission. I want to ask about studies. In the case of the determination of an unwanted pregnancy or a crisis pregnancy, is there a difference between the two? I ask Professor O'Keane to comment on this. In relation to women who have had to avail of abortion outside the State, what studies have been done on the particular psychological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: The second part of the question is related to residents of the UK and a comparison with the support services. What is the difference there? I will add onto this, if I might, a couple of other questions, which I might be able to get through if I can, and if not the Chairman might let me back in some time in the not too distant future.