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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in respect of the renewal of a medical card in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have provided additional information and who are awaiting a decision since the beginning of June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27218/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be urgently facilitated in the case of a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 351. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 26 May 2015, if a review of eligibility to a medical card has been arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 355. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review eligibility for a medical card on discretionary grounds, in view of age and ongoing ill health, in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27293/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determining eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27425/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of assessment in relation to eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27426/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determining an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27429/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has already submitted an application for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27434/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if the requested information has been received in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27435/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 398. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27514/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 440. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a computed tomography, CT, scan colongraphy procedure at Blanchardstown hospital will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27712/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when information regarding the allocation of special needs assistant is likely to become available for the forthcoming academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27084/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I have no complaints about that. I did not go to anybody to protest or to say it was unfair. I recognised fully where that was heading. Why do we not recognise here and now that if we want to do that, there are consequences? In fact, I was proud of the consequences notwithstanding that they were not very nice. There were no plush surroundings like there are nowadays. I have no doubt...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Fianna Fáil would not lose a slot for Sinn Féin.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: If one misses a slot, one could end up-----

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: Like other Members, I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak about this legislation. There are several principles involved. First, there is the need to establish some culture which recognises that at all levels of society in which we incur debt, we must do so in the knowledge that somehow, somewhere or sometime it may be necessary to repay it. While it is all very fine for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2016 (2 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he continues to remain satisfied with his ability to maintain prudent spending policies in the context of the 2016 budget while at the same time meeting the most urgently required expenditure requests likely to come from his and other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26387/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any further consideration will be given to the possible use of Government bonds to fund areas of urgently required infrastructural expenditure which might otherwise negatively impact on the Government's balance sheet in 2016; if any consideration has been given to specific areas which might benefit from such strategic expenditure;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (2 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 26 May 2015, in which it is stated that the means test takes account of the income of a person or a couple in terms of cash and property other than the family home, but does not clarify the position in regard to a spouse who has received a cash settlement in lieu of this spouse's interest in the family...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (2 Jul 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total social welfare payment currently being received by persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26690/15]