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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current and expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42095/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 255. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what plans he has to review childcare facilities guidelines for planning authorities that have been in situ since 2001; whether he agrees that a comprehensive review be undertaken so that a new set of guidelines be prepared for the sector, that reflects the current policy and regulatory context and gives...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 294. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a school dental check-up will take place in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42097/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Pressure came on for progress on children's spinal interventions from this committee, the Minister and parents and families of the children involved. We were all conscious of it. That is why it was raised at a special meeting of the committee. That is the background to the urgency of the situation. When you realised there were problems regarding the procedures, who did you inform first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: What about the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: By the time it was informed that CHI was not happy and that some procedures were not in accordance with best practice, what did the board do? Did it initiate an investigation or a report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Why was the Minister not apprised of the situation in tandem with the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Who in the HSE had ultimate control in relation to the action to be taken and procedures to be ceased or paused? At meetings when the board is present, we, as public representatives, ask questions and await a response. Sometimes, the response comes but not in the way or time anticipated. The question still remains - who was in control of the situation, to move it on quickly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Who is "we"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: How many people are on the executive team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is a big team. Were they all apprised of the situation as it emerged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Did you have information in relation to the procedures in question before they started? For instance, did they start at a particular time? Were they new procedures? To what extent did you have information on the procedures, such as the success or failure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Were inquiries made of the supplier?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is my last question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: They might answer it again or give a written reply.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for being absent last night when the Topical Issue debate was due to deal with the issue I will now raise again, that of family legislation reform. I congratulate the Minister on her success to date and her intentions to carry out those reforms by the end of the year. I am asking today for a preliminary inquiry into the activities which are ongoing and which are to the distinct...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ministers for attending and being so frank in outlining their budgetary proposals. We cannot ask them to elucidate much more at this stage, but we will strongly support what we have seen of the budgetary policy so far while being mindful of the needs arising from the cost of living and of the various sectors they referred to that may need treatment of a specific nature. If...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I further ask the extent to which it is expected to accelerate progress on the NDP, given the challenges that have appeared, the rate of progress in the past, specifically the recent past and the fact that people's expectations are greater now than they were, while recognising also that the cost of delivery has increased by virtue of various forms of inflation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will the Minister, Deputy McGrath, indicate the extent to which it might be expected to monitor the extent to which receipts from corporation profits tax come in and fund the economy in a way that can be linked with the need for reserves and savings in the event of perhaps another pandemic, a cyberattack or whatever the case may be that would impact the economy and the stability to deliver?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Chairman, may I ask one last question?