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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (8 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 279. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an urgent assessment of need will be facilitated in the case of the son of a person (details supplied) whose application for same was submitted two years ago; when the application will be granted for the assessment of need to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (8 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 280. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when appropriate supports will be provided to the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5791/24]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I extend my sympathy and that of my family to Finola and her family, to Richard and his family and to the Bruton family across north Kildare, of whom there are very many. Long may it be so. I see John Farrelly sitting up in the Gallery. We go back a long way, to when we were both councillors and first had direct dealings with John Bruton. I was a councillor in Kildare, my area of north...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: A number of brave delegates who were elevated in the party at the time decided to visit him in his office and ask him if he would be interested in changing his ways or considering his position. He inquired as to where they were coming from and on what basis they were asking. They replied that it was as members of the front bench. He told them they did not represent the front bench anymore...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for my late arrival. I welcome the witnesses this morning. I have watched with interest what they have had to say. From my own experience of dealing with constituents, this is a very important subject because it is forever where the carers are concerned. The carer has to deal with a situation that changes from time to time and gets inexorably worse. Unless family members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, anything that helps.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What steps are being taken, if any, to increase the level of support that might be available by way of new age drugs and so on? Testing drugs at European level and at our own level as well is a slow process. We tend very often to test drugs all over again with resultant delays. Why that exists, I do not know. What can and should be done now in the short term to, as it were, help...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Has Dr. O’Philbin done any work with regard to costing and how it might be within our grasp to do that and deliver in the shorter term with a view to recognising the severity and seriousness of the condition, the need to do something quickly and, at the same time, be able to do it within reason within budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We are improving the situation by encouraging sufferers to have an interest outside just worrying about the condition that has befallen them, and their family worrying about it likewise. It is about them taking an interest to divert their attention, and to get their attention. I think it is obviously-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Okay. I have only 30 seconds left so I might come back in again if we have the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am very impressed with the variations of the therapies that are available. They can go further as well. It is a very interesting time. Modern technology and modern communications such as Facebook, Skype and all those things are very often a nuisance for us but in that particular area they have considerable potential. We would be interested in promoting and supporting those ideas insofar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: And to have around them the noises and the sounds. Their hearing may not be as acute but it is nice to know those sounds are there. I would like to associate myself with the Chair’s remarks on this area and I hope that whoever was responsible for doing the damage does not achieve their objectives, whatever they may be. I would conclude by telling both groups that we appreciate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when full fibre broadband will be provided to a location (details supplied), given new estates have been built adjacent to this housing estate who have access to the fibre network but this housing estate does not; if all efforts will be made to ensure access as soon as possible given current demands of working from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance if it can be clarified as to whether a person (details supplied) received any recent communications from the Revenue Commissioners given he received notification of same but could not find the document on his ROS account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5254/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in securing a local school place in Naas for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4918/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is envisaged that the urban development zones proposed in the Planning and Development Bill 2023 could be used to support areas designated for developments of strategic national economic, social or environmental importance which do not consist of dwellings, where such developments are in line with objectives set out...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to indicate if the new focused area plans proposed in the Planning and Development Bill 2023 could extend to areas of non-residential activity, which previously could have had a local area plan prepared for them under the Planning and Development Act 2000; whether the new focused areas plans, such as a priority area plan are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determining an appeal (details supplied); when a final determination is likely to issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5217/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason payment of mortgage interest supplement was stopped in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5694/24]