Results 29,761-29,780 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I fully realise what Deputy Coppinger is trying to do.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I fully realise what Deputy Coppinger is trying to say.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am not shouting, but I did not interrupt Deputy Coppinger - she interrupted me.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Agency (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Chairman.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Like Deputy Daly, I do not want to be pejorative and it is not my wish to be in any way offensive, but we are discussing the kernel of the housing situation in terms of the public sector in this country. For a long time I have been an opponent of the replacement of the public sector building programme, as suggested by Deputies Daly and Coppinger, with housing provided through voluntary...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: There are no other direct questions.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: How much more direct does the Chairman want to make it?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: It has not actually. Can I give an example?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: This is a classic example. I was involved in a voluntary housing body that was set up specifically to provide 100 houses or whatever the case may be. We had to buy the sites from the local authority for €20,000 each. The voluntary agencies got the sites for free. That is competition. We were doing the same job, but we were doing it for the people to acquire their own homes. The...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: There are nearly 8,000 people on the housing list in County Kildare, so I would not think it was a success.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Council for Social Housing (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Chairman, but it is a burning issue with the people I represent. It is not my view; it is theirs.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to facilitate an oral hearing to determine an entitlement of a person (details supplied) under the carer’s allowance scheme; if she will issue a basic payment in the interim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8764/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when she will issue rent support to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8766/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to issue a water conservation grant towards the Irish Water costs of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8770/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to award rent support to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8772/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to take the family circumstances of a person (details supplied) into account in determining the maximum payment on family income supplement in the event of the spouse forgoing the jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8773/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) received an overpayment under the rent support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8774/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Payments (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 19. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to an increase under the family income supplement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8775/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will approve a payment for a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme, given that the person's eligibility under the domiciliary care allowance scheme ceased on the person reaching 16 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8776/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Apr 2016)
Bernard Durkan: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8777/16]