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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds upon which an application for a top-up of the State pension was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30469/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recently attributed home carer credits will entitle a person (details supplied) to a top-up on their State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance will be reviewed as a matter of urgency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30471/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he can assist the mother of a person (details supplied) who is psychotic and requires urgent residential care; if arrangements can be urgently made for such care to be provided as a matter of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30465/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I have to leave shortly because I am due in the Chamber for Topical Issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Several issues have been discussed here. The first is the secondment. It is accepted that the situation was not handled in the best way possible but that, of course, is hindsight. I would challenge some of the views expressed on this basis. Dr. Tony Holohan was in situat a very difficult time for the country, the HSE and his family during which he was beset by all the issues, had to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, hold on now. I did not interrupt the Deputy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Since the Deputy did interrupt me, just let me say this. He does not look askance at making accusations from time to time based on dubious information. Let us, therefore, deal with facts instead of propaganda. Propaganda cloaked as facts is wrong. It is misleading and bad for everyone. The Minister made one point, and I will finish on this observation, regarding the secondment. I refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I do not wish to cut across the Minister either, but the fact of the matter is this. If the proposal was serious, it was not a situation in which somebody could go to Tony Holohan, say thought was being given to this proposition, that it might be possible to do it, get him to agree to it and then end up with there being no funding available for it at the end of the day. He was not going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: This is speculative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I was there all the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: He is being unfair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The location was very impressive, as was the attendance, at a time in European development that will be regarded as crucial when European history comes to be written. To what extent were representatives of traditionally neutral countries in attendance? Was there any discussion of neutrality, the ability of traditionally neutral countries to defend themselves, whether they will receive...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings in Moldova and any issues arising therefrom. [28327/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 33. To ask the Taoiseach to report any recent discussions he has had with the Ukrainian President or Ukrainian authorities, directly or at European level. [29828/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister, directly or at European level. [29827/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I again raise the question of family law reform. I welcome the Taoiseach's outlining of the timeline for that legislation, which is going through the Houses at the moment. However, one issue remains, the issue of those who have become victims of section 47 and similar sections over recent years. This problem still has to be addressed and redress will have to be dealt with because, in some...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fiscal Policy (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. What he says is accurate. That is the way this is supposed to work but it is not the way it is working. To what extent can this House ensure that what the Minister of State has just intoned to the House actually happens and that every borrower gets the same chance to recover, regardless of whether he or she is in arrears? There is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fiscal Policy (21 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I seek to bring to the attention of the House the activities in recent times of some lending institutions, fund managers and their successors. This mainly relates to funds that were sold over from the pillar banks in a package to the investment fund managers. Some of them are being sold on again to third parties. I am not too certain whether they are fully regulated, but I am sure they...