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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which Sláintecare provisions are currently embedded in the health service, with particular reference to the need to ensure regional representation on the Board of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which patients seeking a scoliosis surgery have been accommodated in the past twelve months; the degree to which it is now proposed to accelerate the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52673/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres fully operational in County Kildare and throughout the country at the present time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the degree by which it is intended to reduce the numbers on hospital waiting lists by whatever means over the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52675/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: United Nations (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which the United Nations modus operandi appears to be in need of reform, with particular reference to a more dramatic and rapid response to emerging threatening situations globally, arising from his recent visit to the United Nations. [49948/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ukraine War (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 47. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which discussions took place at the recent intergovernmental conference in Prague in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [51635/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person’s mother’s birth certificate submitted as part of an application for an Irish passport can be returned in the case of a person (details supplied) who urgently requires the documentation to be returned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Pension Provisions (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of relevant increments for retirees in recent years, who was employed in his Department for over 30 years and who feels that their pension entitlements have not been accurately calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for fuel allowance based on his entitlement to a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52379/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when urgent cranioplasty surgery will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) who needs to move to the National Rehabilitation Centre in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52225/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if a follow-up appointment is pending or forthcoming for a person (details supplied) who was supposed to be recalled within two weeks, following their appointment on 3 May 2022, for cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52234/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if an orthopaedic bed can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52247/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I think I am. I have to check sometimes. I welcome the guests and contributors to the debate. I will comment on a couple of things. I am reminded of Harold Wilson's Government in the early 1960s when a problem arose. Every company that was losing money, it was decided to nationalise it. They ended up nationalising a bunch of losers and they had to denationalise them at a later stage....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Enough of my story.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I know.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The nub of it is that we should use what we have in a really serious meaningful way to improve our infrastructure and to ensure those international corporations remain there to do the job they are doing and hopefully, we will be able to encourage them. I am sorry for going on so long.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I heard housing being mentioned before. Housing was an issue 25 years ago. Fr. Seán Healy was there when I told him 25 years ago that housing was going to be the biggest issue of the future in this country. He knows that. He remembers that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to make a quick comment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Even by my standards it will be brief. I agree entirely but I think about the commotion around the time of the financial crash. We were given advice that contradicted itself on a daily basis. I remember this vividly because I was asked by colleagues in the Dáil whether I had read such-an-such a person, an eminent person but I will not mention names. I said no, I had not, that I had...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Definitely not.