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

Bernard Durkan: 1128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1535/23]

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

Bernard Durkan: 1129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in respect of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); when it is expected that this case will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1541/23]

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

Bernard Durkan: 1138. 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [1735/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected position in respect of an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are available to a person (details supplied) to have their spouse and child join them in this jurisdiction, whose application for family reunification was recently refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2225/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1533. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the promised inquiry on the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; when the inquiry will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health if access to a local GP will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1363. To ask the Minister for Health when a local family GP can be sourced for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health when consistent access and visitation will be facilitated between persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63338/22]

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

Bernard Durkan: 1199. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1323. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains focused on enabling rehabilitation and methadone treatments for those who have been adversely affected by drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1354. To ask the Minister for Health when a full home care package as required in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1534. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services for anyone affected; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1627. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the fair deal scheme can be reassessed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1640. To ask the Minister for Health if and when cataract surgery will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1943/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (18 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1927. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person or body with whom responsibility lies to ensure that the attention of owners of restricted breeds of dogs is drawn to their obligations and responsibilities pursuant to relevant legislation governing these breeds; if there are any plans to introduce a system whereby an owner of a restricted breed is obliged to register...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests. I pay tribute to the health workers, who have been under the cosh, for want of a better expression, for a long time. There have been three years of emergency treatment, with Covid and various outbreaks in various places, new outbreaks, and so on. It is necessary to pay due compliments to those who have soldiered on the front line in desperate situations. I also pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No, but if you do not have a plan you will not change anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I mean no disrespect but this is what I am talking about. The plan is vague as far as I am concerned, and I am a member of this committee. The plan is not manifesting where it needs to in a crisis, that is, at the coalface. It manifested during the Covid crisis and the system worked, but it was necessary to have all hands on deck and weekly indicators of progress. Why can the same not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am aware of that. I am also aware of the need to have a plan, but it cannot be a plan that just goes on forever. It has to achieve some targets, which need to be clearly visible to all and sundry at the coalface in the health services and among the general public. Be it a one-year or two-year plan, let us get something working. What we have now is not working and we regularly have...