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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 10. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which new modern, effective and safe drugs can become available here once approved by the EU authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1817/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which new, effective and safe drugs are made available for use by Irish patients as soon as they become approved at EU level.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his reply. What is the extent to which references come from the pharmaceutical sector on the ready availability as soon as these drugs are made available? For instance, what might be the time lag between approval in the European Union and in this country? I accept that we are a smaller country but we are a member of the European Union. As a member of the Single...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 41. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department and the HSE have engaged with the various hospitals throughout the country with a view to improving the throughput at accident and emergency services in order to ensure early diagnosis/full triage in the shortest possible time and conscious of the need to treat emergencies as such from the outside; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department continues to assess the needs of the economy in terms of technical skills; the progress made in providing for such needs by way of apprenticeships or third level provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1820/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance to indicate if and when consideration might be given to eligibility for carer's tax credit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2313/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to indicate the progress, if any, on the issue of Castletown House and lands in State ownership, access to which is being impeded, and given the fact that alternative access referred to by the OPW and the local authority is not suitable for traffic for either Leixlip or Celbridge and given that there appears to be no willingness to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to indicate if known, the extent to which new housing developments have been completed at various sites throughout the country, private or affordable, which have not been occupied as of yet despite the fact that many houses from such sites will become available to the local authorities via Part 5 and 8; whether any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which housing developments at various locations throughout the country remain unoccupied given the urgent necessity to make such accommodation available for occupancy at the earliest possible date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which completed housing estates remain unoccupied throughout the country for whatever reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the correct level of payment payable to persons (details supplied) in their particular circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the current position in regard to the appropriate pension entitlements in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the extent to which an appropriate payment is in place and arrears paid up to date in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate if she might review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2310/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate if domiciliary care allowance may be deemed appropriate in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the status of an application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate in the case of persons (details supplied) the current position in respect of the family's most recent application for a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate in the case of a person (details supplied), the reason for the refusal of the application for continuation of disability allowance; if the case can be urgently reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2318/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of backlogs in the Probate Office and the effect that this has on business; the action being taken to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 16 November 2023, for an update on the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2305/24]