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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status or eligibility to apply for naturalisation or both in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50090/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding reckonable residency in respect of eligibility to apply for naturalisation the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50091/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 can make an application for residency status/permission to remain/Stamp 4 on the basis of their personal circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50092/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the children of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15 whose children are in care; the length of time the children are in care; the number of visits to each of the children facilitated by the authorities in the interim; the number of occasions on which visits to the children were not facilitated or were cancelled;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be allocated a GMS doctor card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure to be followed for male circumcision in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50077/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (21 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50078/13]

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I am delighted to speak on this important issue. Having listened to the debate over the past two years, we must ask ourselves when it is a good time to make an exit from a programme like this. The answer is when it is most advantageous to the economy and the people of this country, who made huge sacrifices albeit with the leadership of Government. When major sacrifices of this nature are...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: When Deputy Billy Kelleher sat on the Government side and had the mixing bowl, we know the ingredients put into it and we know the length of time it took to sink the economy. It took ten years to sink the country's economy and the Opposition is now disappointed when the economy has not recovered in two and a half years.

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: This falls on deaf ears but pretending is what brought this country to where it is. I remember a Minister at the time saying the Government did not need the money being generated. A senior Minister said the Government had so much money that it did not need it. Deputy Billy Kelleher was inquiring about why people felt there was so much money around. There were no options. The Government...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I am not blaming Deputy Billy Kelleher personally, which would not be fair because he was not fully responsible. The people accepted the option put forward by the then Government and made a wrong decision because they were given wrong information. The information they were given at the time was wrong. It has not been easy for the people. It is to their eternal credit that they stuck with...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Dream on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Can we invite a group of them over here to see us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Of members of the United States Congress.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: We can invite them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: We went over there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: It is a busy time here too. The Chairman should go over and bring a few of them over here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: US Immigration Reform: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Brendan Smith is correct that there is always a danger we could fall between stools on this issue which has been ongoing for years. I am not so sure we need to isolate the Irish from the other undocumented. We can claim a certain priority because of the commitment of the Irish to the United States for many years. I know the point that has been made about the Mexicans. Several years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Syria and the Philippines: Discussion with UNICEF Ireland (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: What about helicopters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Syria and the Philippines: Discussion with UNICEF Ireland (20 Nov 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Peter Power for appearing before the committee and being so informative. It is refreshing to get up-to-date information from people on the ground who have an understanding of the situation and are able to convey that to the rest of us. What I cannot understand in regard to this particular disaster is that with modern technology now so adequately sophisticated, it is possible to...