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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for contributory old age pension received in each of the past five years to date; where eligibility was determined on the basis of a partnership between spouses; where the relevant self-employed pension contributions under the 1988 Act were made but where pension was refused on the basis that a partnership did not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in respect of applicants for contributory old age pension under the provisions of self-employed contributions provided for under the 1988 Act and where previously, in the event of a shortfall, it was possible to make up the contributions by way of single payment, whether the profit from the business did not warrant the payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he might examine the ineligibility of entitlement to contributory old age pension for women who had to give up work in the public sector due to the marriage ban or who took time out to rear their families and subsequently returned to the workforce but who do not qualify for a contributory old age pension, despite having a made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection #the total number of family income supplement payments currently in place; the extent to which the number has fluctuated over the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which overpayments, culminating in a recovery, may exist in respect of cases whereby the recipient of the alleged overpayment may have a prior entitlement which would reduce the extent of liability to repay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12105/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (25 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if time to draw down grant assistance of €80,000 provided under the sports capital grant scheme to a school (details supplied) will be extended to facilitate the remaining fund-raising required by the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11957/16]

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: There are five minutes left in the slot.

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: There are four minutes left.

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin. Is the Deputy sharing time?

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Is the Deputy sharing time?

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy D'Arcy is present.

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I now call on Deputy James Browne, after whom the next speaker from Fianna Fáil will take the following slot.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Jordan for appearing before the committee. I also congratulate Threshold on the work it does, particularly in the specialised area of emergency housing. It is appropriate that organisations and agencies are available to deal with this issue. I disagree with Mr. Jordan, however, regarding the degree to which the rental market can be regulated to any great effect in so far as...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Department of Social Protection (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I am pleased to see my friends from the Department of Social Protection before the committee and I thank them for their work. There are a couple of matters that need to be addressed. As we have stated on many occasions, the Department of Social Protection was an emergency housing support. It was not a housing body and it should never become a housing body. A former Minister in that...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Yesterday, it was reported that 250,000 vacant properties are available throughout the country. To what extent do they represent sales in transit? To what extent do they represent properties which are being refurbished following tenancies or awaiting new tenancies? Is there another reason such a large number of properties throughout the country are vacant? Is the figure just being tossed...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The witnesses might see themselves as part of the solution, and the jury is still out on this. I do not see the rental market as part of the solution. In fact, I see it as being part of the problem. I do not blame the Irish Property Owners Association; it is because in lieu of what was previously a reliable system of local authority housing the private rental system was purported to be the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Are they going out of the system permanently or are they just going underground?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Surely rents in the years leading up to 2007 were based on a property bubble in which property prices were vastly inflated and incomes had to follow to keep pace with the property market. How does Mr. O'Brien respond to that point? If we are harking back to the peak of the boom and hoping to achieve boom time rents, we will go down the same road we went down the first time around. On the...