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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when rent supplement will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) might be eligible for a pension top-up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for citizenship might be approved or otherwise in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to regularise their position in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed by a person (details supplied) to extend their visa, which is required for employment purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43415/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an EU treaty rights application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43424/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the course of currently proposed reforms of family law, it is expected that expert witnesses can be challenged as of right; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied), who has attempted to appeal online, with limited success, to appeal against the decision to refuse them entry into the international protection programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43421/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied); the appropriate procedure to follow at this point to reunite the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 319. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which Tusla is in the course of following up on its recent meeting with a mother (details supplied) who continues to be denied access to her children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 351. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) qualifies for free dental treatment on foot of a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that regular and programmed carer service continues to be available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43425/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I support the views expressed by Deputy Brendan Smith on the importance of parliamentary interaction between the two assemblies when the Assembly is restored. In order to facilitate that discussion, the Assembly must be restored. There is a notion that in some way, if things are left in abeyance for long enough, everything will fade away and we will go back to where we were. The Good...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to express my strong commitment and support for the points raised by my colleague, Deputy Brendan Smith, who is from a good Ulster county. It is important to remember to try to maximise the shared island concept with a view to ensuring it is part and parcel of the Good Friday Agreement. There is a need to ensure that the aspirations of the Good Friday Agreement continue to remain...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the extent of his interaction with all parties in Northern Ireland in the context of shared island initiative. [42808/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am on the campus, in my usual location in my office in Leinster House. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and the information already given. I will ask questions on a couple of issues. Recently, I have raised the quality of care and attention provided at accident and emergency departments in various places in the eastern region, the area with which I am most familiar. To...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I agree with Mr Egan but unfortunately the people at the centre of this particular argument do not comply and do not care about staff. They only care about whatever it is they want to do at a particular time. They are not slow about forcing their views on everybody, including other patients. I do not think that is acceptable or that a hospital or an accident and emergency department can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I accept all that and I want to move on to something else. However, the point is that 75% of patients in accident and emergency units are people who would nowadays be called ordinary working citizens and they arrive in emergency units for a reason that is troublesome for them. It may or may not be an emergency, depending on triage and that kind of thing. The problem is that they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The problem as I see it is this. I do not know whether HIQA was informed and, if so, when it was informed regarding this particular incident and the extent to which it comes under HIQA's jurisdiction under the new patient safety Act and also regarding full disclosure. Full disclosure means full disclosure. If something goes wrong, the various agencies, including the Minister and the...