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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a residency update/permission to remain/naturalisation might issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37243/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position and likely progress in processing the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37244/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when stamp 4 might issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37245/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for citizenship can be accepted from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which food and food products such as beef, lamb, pigmeat, diary or poultry have been imported into this country in each of the past five years to date; the extent to which trends have been noticeable throughout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an urgent assessment of need can take place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an appropriate assessment might take place in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Protection (19 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 271. To ask the Minister for Health if and when Tallaght Hospital can recognise the rights of the child and discharge the child into the care of their mother (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37083/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their input. A couple of issues come to mind. The issues requiring attention at this stage, which have already been mentioned, are housing and health. Education needs to be noted as an area for further investment. There are bottlenecks arising there that need to be dealt with. The other thing that is necessary nowadays is to look at where we spend...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Ministers and their respective staffs. I congratulate them on their efforts to date and the economic performance which is satisfactory. There are always pitfalls that have to be identified and avoided, if possible, and provided for in order to ensure the smooth movement of the economy in the future. On the commentary on foreign direct investment, the Apple tax and so on, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: NAMA was supposed and intended to make a profit from day 1. It was expected. To what extent has that profit been realised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Has that been in accordance with revised expectations, given the conditions under which NAMA was introduced and the discussions that took place in this House during that period as to the alternative viable options? Does it still remain the best option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The actual profit outturn is about €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I accept that is a reasonable conclusion but the circumstances in which the financial collapse took place meant an awful lot of business people, big and small, ordinary householders who had borrowed and so on, lost everything and were squeezed to the limit. They continue to be squeezed as a result of the financial crash. I realise that the moneys have to be found somewhere and that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The banks that were in difficulty after the financial crash subsequently sold their loans on to vulture funds, for want of a better description, or other funds. Two questions arise. First is the question as to the number of people who were in NAMA, or forced into NAMA, who claim they should never have been there. There are some people who are in NAMA who were borrowers beforehand and who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The borrower suffered immensely as a result. The emphasis was on clearing up the mess at huge expense to the borrowers, who borrowed on the basis of the financial, fiscal and lending policy at the time, which was created by the lending institutions themselves. There are those who will say they were caught between a rock and a hard place and they paid the penalty, whereas those who erred...