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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the determination of permission to remain, stamp 4 eligibility or otherwise in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44492/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of known members of criminal gangs who have been released from prison in the past five years on completion of their sentence or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44528/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which it is expected particular Garda stations are likely to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which women suffering breast cancer have ready access to a medical card and access to free prosthesis afterwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44493/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for invalidity pension in the case a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 714 of 29 September 2017, if the matter could now be further investigated in view of the applicability of the common travel area and particularly having regard to the fact that the persons could not have remarried without presenting a copy of the decree absolute in a person's (details...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) regarding refusal of a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44494/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if exceptional needs payment will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44495/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in the case of a person's (details supplied) application for a State pension, an effort was made to allow contributory credits for the period they were employed by employers who did not record contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44496/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which it is expected that a person (details supplied), previously a director of their company whose business has been wound up, is deemed to have an ability to meet a payment of €8,827.83 arising from redundancy and insolvent payment schemes in view of the fact that their only income is a State pension;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (19 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 662 of 10 October 2017, when a jobseeker's allowance payment will resume in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44530/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses for giving their time and for the evidence they have presented today. I have a question on the chilling factor. On the issue of women or girls who may have accessed abortion pills through the Internet, I understand that there have been situations in Northern Ireland where prosecutions have taken place. Is there evidence that such prosecutions have happened here? In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: With or without that, or irrespective. Would that apply anyway? In the event of a change in the legislation, how do the witnesses see themselves reacting in that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Let us assume that the legislation has been passed and there is a new regime. Does that in any way alter the degree to which, in an advanced stage of the pregnancy, it might be decided to intervene with a view to termination at an earlier stage than currently proposed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: In the event of a repeal of the eighth amendment and the legislation being changed, does that alter the manner in which the practitioners might deal with a case where the circumstances I have outlined might prevail. In other words, does it show that there is a difference now as opposed to what prevailed previously?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is Dr. Ní Bhuinneáin suggesting that better sex education in schools might be of benefit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Have I another minute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: It is one last question. Evidence has been suggested that where abortion is readily and legally available in a country, the number of abortions decline. What is the basis for that conclusion? Different regimes apply in different countries. Germany has fairly strict regulation of termination of pregnancy. As medical practitioners, are the witnesses aware of the system in Germany as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: We have all had a lot of tedious discussions on this subject for the past few days and weeks, and there is still a lot to go. As the committee is aware, I was one of the people who preferred to have a vote on any procedural changes at the end, when we had discussed the entire issue, as the Citizens' Assembly did. However, in order to facilitate the ongoing cohesive nature of the discussion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Bernard Durkan: -----other than to suggest that I would have doubts about the first option, which is to repeal simpliciter. I have doubts about that because it is loaded with options, trip wires and challenges and I think that will emerge ultimately. The second option is to repeal based on published legislation entrenched in the Constitution. There will be a lot of discussion about certain subjects not...