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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is immediately obvious to some people within the service. There are some who claim within the service that is the way they see it. I agree with the assessment in respect of HSE staff but they have traditionally been over-employed in the health services. That is going back 20 years. There was always the reliance on agency staff and they became greater than the cause. Then those numbers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: If I can make one last point, I agree the population has grown but so has the budget. The budget for health has grown way ahead of what the population was in 1957, for example. The population has doubled since then but the health budget has doubled as well, and trebled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That is the argument that is put to us.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 19. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made to ensure that every child who requires an assessment of needs has early access to same, given the importance of early intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied with the availability of childcare facilities, given the increasing need for both parents to be at work, and to meet the requirements of one-parent families; the ongoing work being undertaken to improve provision in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39169/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an update in respect of the commencement of the W6 bus route can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the recent progress of a school building project (details supplied), given that planning permission issued in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will finally ensure that a project (details supplied) is approved given that it was first initiated fifty years ago and that co-finance was and is available from a university with a student population approaching 20,000, as well as the indigenous population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39454/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will with a matter of urgency authorise the purchase of a minimum of 200 houses from the open market to facilitate the housing needs in respect of affordable housing and local authority rental housing in north Kildare given the large number of people now in danger of homelessness (details supplied); if he will ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he continues to monitor the situation throughout north Kildare, where more and more tenants are about to become homeless, and whose only hope is the necessary provision of funding by his Department given the availability of houses on the open market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39458/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the processing of a carer's benefit application submitted by a person (details supplied) will be prioritised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39261/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the school hot meals programme in 2025; the work in hand for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39459/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39263/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a naturalisation certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied), who paid the required fee in May 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39302/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he remains satisfied that food and food products, with particular reference to meat imported into this country, are subject to the highest level of inspection, quality control, hygiene and husbandry, transport and sale in accordance with EU and Irish standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39455/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of dairy and meat products that have been imported into this jurisdiction in each of the past five years to date, by volume and value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39456/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the funds available to his Department remain adequate to meet whatever challenges may arise, for whatever reason in the course of the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39444/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which it may be possible to provide sufficient childcare places at an affordable rate to ensure that parents may plan for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in hand to increase the number of childcare places throughout County Kildare over the next three years; the work in hand for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39446/24]