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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Moloney and the other officials, as well as members, for their contributions.

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I did not comment on Deputy Collins's comments.

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this subject. I apologise for my absence over the past number of days. The process of Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill took priority over dealing with many of the issues that have been referred to by speakers in the House. This is an important issue. We have responsibilities and obligations, and we do reasonably well in achieving...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry about that. We will wait.

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: They were encouraged.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I raise again the issue I have raised on numerous occasions in the past, namely, the ongoing difficulties experienced in the family law issues that are ongoing and that have been decided on, the discrimination against mothers and fathers of children, to the extent that parents are barred from seeing their children indefinitely. This has been raised in various other parliaments across Europe....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department have identified blockages in the delivery of health services, with particular reference to addressing such issues in any way possible in order to ensure a seamless access to health services including A&Es, GPs and all public health services without restriction; if he will outline the actions already taken in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 70. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor, assess and remedy any shortcomings in the delivery of health services, whether in regard to access to homecare, general medical services, and capacity requirements in whatever area, with a view to resolution in the short term in order to make the health services in this country a more attractive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify through the various local authorities suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these including modular homes and log cabins, as well as conventional methods to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which extra methods and means can be employed to provide extra housing in sufficient volume to meet requirements to address homelessness, child homelessness and family homelessness; if he continues to identify extra measures likely to positively impact in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which it might be possible to ensure that the private bus service operating from Naas to Blanchardstown might include Blanchardstown Hospital for the convenience of patients who attend on a regular basis and have difficulty finding car parking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to indicate, particularly for those who have been on waiting lists for many years, but whose income in the interim has increased albeit insufficiently to purchase at today's prices but pushing them over the income limits to qualify for local authority house now, if consideration can be given to the particular plight...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if sufficient staff are available to the various local authorities to process and advise applicants in early date so as to avoid repeat applications or lengthy application processes so an applicant can find out in early date whether they qualify for any/all of the available schemes rather than making repeated lengthy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further steps that can be taken to dramatically increase the housing output to meet the requirements of both the public and private housing programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49231/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate, given the increasing demand and pressure for housing, the extent, if any, to which he might look at the housing requirements on a county-by-county basis, with a view to appointing professional builders on contract to the respective local authorities to provide and accelerate a housing programme; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify a suite of emergency measures such as the provision of modular houses, log-cabins or other alternatives including the liberalisation of planning applications in rural areas, in order to alleviate the housing crisis for locals as well as refugees in order to urgently address the situation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the provision of utilities such as electricity and water to new houses is currently limiting progress in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions applied for and refused by county in each of the past four years to date; the way such figures will inform housing policy going forward, with particular reference to giving the local population a chance to live in their local area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49234/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an audit of vacant publicly owned buildings has been carried out or can be carried out, with a view to providing emergency housing for local people and immigrants who may have a need for the urgent availability for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department has identified issues deemed to impede the provision of much-needed affordable housing on State lands throughout the country; if he expects to be in a position to address the issue in due course; if the issues that currently impede a speedy and efficient public authority response to the...