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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the full extent of the home care package available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22905/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in determining eligibility for a special needs assistant in the case of a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22787/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional financial support will be facilitated in the case of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to link two sanctioned additional classrooms to the main school buildings, with particular reference to ongoing health and safety concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22789/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which a higher education grant has been refused in the case of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22867/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which this country has incurred fines or penalties imposed by the European Union in respect of ground or other water pollution; the steps taken to prevent any such penalties in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22845/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate, having regard to replies to previous parliamentary questions on the issue, the extent to which his Department has examined the submissions from Kildare County Council for approval in respect of the Kilmacreddock and Barrogstown group sewerage scheme; if he is aware of the technical questions raised...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of house purchases or new house starts approved by his Department in respect of County Kildare in the past 12 months, having regard to the increase in homelessness, rapidly increasing rents, and the numbers on the local authority housing waiting lists; if cognisance is being taken of the worsening situation;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor rent increases in the private rented sector, with particular reference to the number and level of increases in the past 12 months; if he is aware of the likely extent to which homelessness is likely to increase as a result; his plans to address the issue; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently living in private rental accommodation and dependent on rent support but whose rents are being increased, in many cases beyond the extent to which rent support is available; if further immediate steps will be taken to increase the supply of local authority houses, with particular reference...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department might review tenancy agreements throughout the housing sector with a view to providing guidance and support to tenants who have been the subject of repeated substantial rent increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he might be in a position to regulate the duration of tenancies with a view to ensuring a greater degree of reliability, duration, and rent levels throughout the private rental sector, with particular reference to those not dependent on rent support; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government notwithstanding his positive efforts to date in meeting the local authority housing shortage, if other means might be considered, such as a Government bond to accelerate the public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of replies to previous parliamentary questions on the issue, the extent to which the various stakeholders have come to address outstanding issues involving the completion of the development at the Waterways in County Kildare, in view of the concern and discontent of the residential and commercial tenants and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm whether he has received any submissions from Kildare County Council in regard to the ongoing matter of cessation of development at the town centre in Naas in County Kildare; if so, if he will outline the details of any such submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22916/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which disabled persons' housing adaptation grants are adequately funded by the local authorities through his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22917/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (11 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who holds a current Irish international and Ukrainian driver's licence has recently been informed that he must undertake a certificate of professional competence test despite having driver's licences for more than 20 years, nationally and internationally; and if he will make a...

Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: The next speaker was to be Deputy Gerry Adams, but I understand he is sharing with Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. The two speakers have 15 minutes between them.

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: If we continued the previous policy they would all have been closed by now.

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: I refer to the nursing home support scheme (amendment) Bill, to provide that payments made to women under the Lourdes hospital redress scheme, the Lourdes hospital payments scheme and the surgical symphysiotomy payments scheme will not be taken into account in applications made under the nursing home support scheme. When will the Bill come before the House? Have the heads been cleared? Is...

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Bernard Durkan: The companies auditing Bill.