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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: That was the original intention but it did not happen.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The Chairman knows all my questions are brief. I refer to the definition of normal Government expenditure, which I presume includes capital and current expenditure for the purposes of this exercise.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: That quite considerably narrows down what can be done. There is a stranglehold on what can be done. We all appreciate the collective difficulties of the witnesses, but we also have a difficulty which is pressing and becoming more so as the hours go by. It is not a question of avoiding the issue and hoping it will go away. These issues will not go away. Young people are now desperate...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: We know that, but we want the witnesses to know it as well.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: And rentals.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Association of Irish Local Government (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I will be very brief, as always Chairman. The delegation is welcome because they speak the language that we know they have gleaned from their own direct dealings with people who are in need of housing within the local authority areas. That is very refreshing and important. Many of the other delegates spoke in a similar fashion. What do the witnesses think might be done to speed up the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Association of Irish Local Government (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry for interrupting but this is an important point. Can that be done on contract from the public sector?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dr. Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Dr. Lyons and thank him for his submission. I agree with some of his comments and strongly disagree with others, particularly the transfer of land from local authorities to approved housing bodies. I cannot see the logic in this and would like to see the reverse happen. Long before we had the kind of situation we have now, local authorities built a large number of houses and lent...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategic Infrastructure Provision (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has examined strategic expenditure to address infrastructural deficiencies in areas such as housing, health, transport, communications and education with a view to identifying how best to address these issues while meeting off-Government balance sheet requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12992/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public expenditure projections are on course and likely to remain on course in 2016; to examine areas of vital infrastructure which require extra expenditure; if this expenditure is possible while maintaining prudent management principles and objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12991/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Staff Data (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have left the public service in her Department in each of the past five years to date, either by way of natural retirement or redundancy; the extent to which the national pay bill has been affected as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 17 May 2016, to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12714/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13527/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Data (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of persons who have left the public service in his Department in each of the past five years to date, either by way of natural retirement or redundancy; the extent to which the national pay bill has been affected as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 471. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of application for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12953/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 512. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the correct level of one-parent family payment will be recalculated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13516/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 513. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a position regarding overpayment can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13518/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Allowances Payments (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 544. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedure a person (details supplied) must follow to obtain a marriage gratuity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12581/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policy Reviews (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 566. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will encourage reform or policy initiatives with a view to maximising the potential for economic recovery and development in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13615/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (31 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 567. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects public expenditure constraints and reform policies, effective in the context of economic recovery, to be used as a basis for prudent economic development in the future; if he expects to implement innovation in this regard in the future to maximise economic benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13616/16]