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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality why legal aid cannot be offered to a person (details supplied); if the matter can be investigated as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected status regarding applications for citizenship in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) might expect an outcome regarding an application for naturalisation in the case of his son; if all the details requested have been received in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Planning Issues (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of extensive site alterations in the grounds of Ryevale House, Leixlip, County Kildare which would appear to facilitate development unconnected with any authorised use of the house and the grounds; if the developer has been authorised to proceed with proposals other than those relating to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 429. To ask the Minister for Health if it is considered satisfactory to wait ten hours to be assessed for a head injury in the case of a person (details supplied), who attended an accident and emergency department recently but who is also a returning patient to the hospital in the neurology department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a current medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23699/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 470. To ask the Minister for Health if long-term illness card/full medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23997/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Are the minutes agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss consideration of access to community neurological rehabilitation teams. To assist the committee with this I am pleased to welcome from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, NAI, Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director, Dr. Susan Coote, associate professor, University of Limerick, and Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist in Beaumont...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms Rogers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We have ten minutes, including for questions and answers. There will be an opportunity to follow up on it later, however. I should have said at the outset that a number of members will have to absent themselves because there is business to be dealt with in the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Starting with Deputy Cullinane. That will come. Our apologies, but that is the way the House is setting and business goes on. Members have to be in two or three places at the same time. Deputy Róisín Shortall is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry but we have to move on. The next contributor should be Deputy Gino Kenny but he has agreed to let Senator Conway go before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I congratulate the witnesses on their presentation. It was well-focused, well-directed and at an opportune time. Timing is all-important in all this business. In particular, I congratulate the witnesses on their point about enabling the establishment of teams in CHO 5, CHO 8 and CHO 9. The point was well made. Now is the time to make it; in other words, in good time for Bernard Gloster's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Tánaiste for that detailed reply. My question also focuses on the ability of the military services here to take the necessary action to dissuade those who might want to loiter, for want of a better description, in territorial waters, or non-territorial waters for that matter, close to the Irish shoreline. I refer to the degree to which it might be possible to receive...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is a new one that I invented myself.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It depends on the intent.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Tánaiste again for that response. In view of the heightened level of anxiety about the operations of certain vessels in our territorial waters, and given that we have a long shoreline and are off the west coast of Europe, albeit not directly because one country stands between us and it, can we be assured, and can the Tánaiste be assured from the information available to...