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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which each Department achieved the targets set by his Department in the course of the past six years; the extent to which this now becomes the basis for reward throughout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26368/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the scope for reforms throughout the public and private sectors which may still have a role to play in economic performance in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26369/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which pay demands in the public and private sectors are likely to impact on the growing economy to a negative or positive extent in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26370/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which his Department monitors the impact of Brexit on the public and private sectors with a view to addressing such issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26371/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public procurement procedures remain an asset or an obstacle in the context of economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26372/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full extent to date in 2017 of recruitment throughout the public sector in the context of economic recovery; the expectation in respect of future recruitment throughout the sector by the end of 2017 and thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26299/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: My apologies for arriving late. I have read Dr. Coffey's statement. A couple of points arise. I was probably responsible for having the National Cancer Registry set up in the first instance because I asked so many questions that somebody decided it was time to move on with it. To what degree has the incidence of the various forms of cancer throughout the country, and any potential cause...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Mr. Horan for appearing before the committee and for his introductory remarks. Unlike my colleague, I believe that both the public and the private health sectors should be cost-effective, efficient and responsive. There is no harm in having competition between the two in respective areas. I favour the public health sector and I want to see it develop and grow. When comparisons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: Is there an obvious inability in the public sector to deal with these particular illnesses? I would have expected hip replacement procedures to be high on the agenda.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the circumstances in which persons are deemed to have inadvertently received a payment to which they may not have an entitlement and that subsequently have to repay sums, including lump sums, to an extent that may exacerbate their vulnerability especially those dependent on rent support derived from being on local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has satisfied himself that adequate resources are in place to ensure minimum waiting times in respect of decisions on appeal in respect of various payments; if every effort is being made to reduce such waiting times to the minimum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25969/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which staff can be redeployed within his Department to deal expeditiously with the appeals backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26241/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he may review the current system used in the calculation to entitlement to a contributory old age pension to address the imbalance whereby persons with fewer contributions can receive a higher payment than those with considerably higher number of contributions to ensure that equity prevails, particularly for those...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of women throughout the country that do not qualify for a contributory pension due to the marriage ban which forced them to retire from work particularly in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which his Department can assist those in danger of becoming homeless with particular reference to situations whereby a primary payment is terminated and rent support likewise as a consequence resulting in hardship, anxiety and despair; if he will ensure that in such cases rent support is not terminated until all else has been...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received for contributory old age pension, jobseeker's allowance, non-contributory old age pension, disability allowance, invalidity pension and carer's allowance, respectively, by month in each of the years 2015 to 2016, and to date in 2017; the number of cases granted, refused, granted on appeal and refused on appeal,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that appeals in respect of various decisions in regard to payments made by his Department are dealt with expeditiously or that payment will continue while the case is on appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26246/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (31 May 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which community welfare services are readily available to meet the needs of those in society that may ordinarily have had no reason to call on the social services that may, due to circumstances outside their control, have to rely on exceptional needs payments to get by in a crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....