Results 3,201-3,220 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider emergency housing measures to increase the supply of housing to those counties particularly affected by the threat of homelessness; the steps he will take to address these ever increasing housing needs in order to ensure that homelessness does not become an endemic and that families including parents and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate whether consideration might be given to an easier system of transfer to disability allowance or other form of payment to those applicants who heretofore already qualified for domiciliary care allowance and who have no contributions to facilitate an ongoing payment on reaching the end of their DCA entitlement;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether parental alienation, a highly contested condition, being used as a means to support one or other side in family law cases, is also being referred to where choice of second level school has not been agreed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of local authority housing starts recorded on a monthly basis over the course of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54430/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the local authority housing stock has increased by way of purchase of extra houses or new builds over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54431/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent, if any, to which rapid build or modular housing has been offered to Kildare County Council, having regard to the seriousness of the housing situation and recognising that this will not improve unless drastic steps are taken to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54433/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he can take to address the acute problem of the local authority housing shortage in the short term, and to identify more ambitious targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54435/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which serviced or serviceable lands, zoned or unzoned, have been identified by each of the local authorities in the greater Dublin area to facilitate a rapid build housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54437/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects to meet the imminent demand in respect of housing, following the displacement of tenants from private accommodation for a variety of reasons including repossession, and the immediate needs of such tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54440/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he expects extra local authority houses to become available in the course of the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54432/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which planning procedures can be expedited to facilitate the building of extra local authority houses, with particular reference to the need to make a serious impact on the numbers currently on local authority waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he might authorise the reintroduction of the rural housing programme, with particular reference to those on the local authority housing lists coming from a rural area being facilitated by way of a programme to ensure that they might be housed in their own area rather than adding to the waiting lists in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the number of families deemed homeless in County Kildare are likely to achieve accommodation in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54438/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) may qualify for appropriate payment such as domiciliary care allowance in respect of their four-year-old daughter who suffers from a number of health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54406/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which carer's allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which efforts continue to be made to award State pensions to those men and women whose contribution record was interrupted for family or other reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position in respect of restoration of a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Agreements (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department has direct contact with other jurisdictions with which a bilateral arrangement for social welfare exists, with particular reference to the need to ensure a smooth and expeditious process in dealing with claims particularly where contributions in two or more jurisdictions arise; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer's allowance whose allowance has been withdrawn for whatever reason in each of the past four years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for pension based on a combination of Irish and overseas contributions that have yielded a lesser pension to the applicant than those based solely on single-country contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54421/23]