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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: No disrespect to-----

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Some of us have been learning this for many long years and there are those of us who learned it lately. We have all done our bit at the coalface and we did not come late to the table. I want to clearly point out that this is not a new situation for most of us. If it is a new situation for most of us, then over the past five years people in this country have been reading the newspapers,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I strongly agree with Deputy Canney in that area. I agree with the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. They have a role to play and a comment to make. Each of us has approached them individually on many occasions in recent years in order to put forward proposals that have not yet been favoured. However, there is always a first time and our current position regarding...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I support Deputy Ryan's proposal. We have to look at the possibility of emergency legislation, particularly in this area. What format it will take remains to be seen, but if we allow the objections to prevail in respect of how we address the issue, which is a major national issue at present, we are not going to resolve anything at all and it will go on forever. Without impinging on...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before us. What is the best way to encourage the return of the private sector to the construction area? For example, are there builders available now who can be employed directly by the local authorities, on a contract basis, to build houses? I emphasise that this refers to direct build by the local authorities through the private sector. We have done this...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Can that process be shortened? The case being presented to me is that it takes a long time.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing will be held on an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8021/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the review of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8094/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is eligible under the jobseeker's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8107/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is eligible under the family income supplement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8108/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a partial rent supplement payment is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8252/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for an overpayment to a person (details supplied) under the family income supplement scheme; if she will reinstate the payment as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the rent supplement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8283/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will put forward for consideration, a project a person (details supplied) is proposing in respect of an application under the back to work allowance scheme, with particular reference to the personal funding invested in same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8393/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when she will issue rent allowance to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8399/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8484/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 95. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to enable a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a disability allowance to return to level five education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8490/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, and when, she will issue a fuel allowance to persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8497/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Qualifications (26 Apr 2016)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedure to be followed in order to allow a person (details supplied) to practice as a vet here, as they are fully qualified, having obtained their qualification in Baghdad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8421/16]