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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if an increase in home help assistance is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose home help has recently been reduced to one hour per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22232/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Generic Drugs Substitution (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 696. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which central procurement and generic prescribing have been each identified and assessed for potential to reduce health service costs without in any way affecting the quality and efficacy of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23012/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services, Cost of Medicines (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which drug costs have fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; the way this has affected the budgetary situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23013/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services, Cost of Medicines (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 698. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which a rise in costs of any particular or specific drugs has been identified over the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23014/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Numbers (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 699. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of fully-qualified nurses employed in the public health sector in each of the past five years to date; the extent if any to which resignations, retirements or movement to the private sector has affected staff levels in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23015/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Assistant Numbers (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 700. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing assistants currently employed throughout the public health sector; the extent to which such numbers have fluctuated in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23016/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which orthodontic services continue to be made available to children and teenagers with particular reference to follow-up on school medical examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23017/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the implications of the implied closure of numerous local health centres throughout the country and the possible implications for the delivery of locally-based convenient services to the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23021/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 706. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the role played by local health centres throughout County Kildare in the delivery of high-quality community based and conveniently located services; if he will re-examine any proposals for the downgrading and or closure of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Bed Numbers (14 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 707. To ask the Minister for Health the full complement of general hospital beds currently available on a regional basis throughout the country in the public health sector; the number of similar beds in the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/13]

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To take up Deputy John Browne's last point on the total number of people on local authority housing waiting lists, it is indeed a housing crisis. It is one the Minister of State inherited from her predecessors. It has continued for ten years because the previous Administration refused to do anything about it. The culture of dealing with local authority housing requirements was gone; the...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: It was called the sale of the century.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: And long before it.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I was, for different reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Councils: Discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Tánaiste and congratulate him and his colleagues on their work during the Irish Presidency, particularly on the level of activity generated among his colleagues in the European Union in focusing on the issues affecting us all directly. Will he elaborate on the issue of youth unemployment and the extent to which satisfactory targets have been agreed to, are attainable and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The United Kingdom and the European Union: Discussion (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: He is very much committed to the European project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: The United Kingdom and the European Union: Discussion (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister to the committee. I note his comments on the degree of co-operation between the two Governments. There is considerable scope for even greater improvement in that area as time goes by, particularly in the all-island of Ireland context. Significant benefits can accrue to both sides of this island and also to the UK. Mr. Lidington referred to the implications for...

Order of Business (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Can the Tánaiste indicate to the House what progress has been made on the pyrite levy Bill? Is it expected that the heads of the Bill will be dealt with by Cabinet at an early date? To what extent is it hoped to deal with the Bill during the current session? Current bail law was set in the 1960s and there is a general recognition of the need for reform. When is the bail Bill likely...

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: It is Fianna Fáil that ruined the country.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Dialogue (9 May 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she continues to have dialogue with the various stakeholders in relation to issues affecting the welfare, well-being and health of children and young persons; the extent to which dominant issues have arisen in this regard; if she has a preference for particular and or specific policies to target any such issues; and if...