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- Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency and family reunification in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2901/10]
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency status in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2902/10]
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2903/10]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2904/10]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2905/10]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency and citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2906/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when one parent family allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2927/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the relevant section of her Department will confirm that for the purposes of qualification for an old age pension on foot of self employment contributions in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare a partnership exists; if, in view of a readjustment or division of contribution requirements, a specific amount...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2929/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for one parent family allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2935/10]
- Flood Response Reports. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome the request for the information concerned. Will the Minister broaden the request to take into account all factors that might have contributed to the flooding that took place in November and early December? Notwithstanding the reliance on climate change issues, there should be more reliance on drainage issues, the need for which has been clearly identified over a number of years....
- Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Correct.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister of State agree that many of the houses off-loaded to very vulnerable people in the middle and low income groups in the past 12 months were not at affordable prices? In fact, a debt was hung around their necks at a time when they were most vulnerable. Does he agree that the long-term lease system is not a good one in terms of value to the consumer or the taxpayer? This is...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: This is as brief as I can be. This costs the taxpayers and the families in question up to â¬500 million per year. It is extraordinary that nobody has concluded that the obvious thing to do is acquire some of those houses and allocate them at rental prices, with an option to purchase them at a later stage.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State knows those figures are not correct.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister should see what is happening.
- Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Government did not.
- Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Where was the Minister at that time?
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: On that subject-----
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will be delighted to know that I am speaking about a new matter.