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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46516/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for the invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to obtain Irish citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46509/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application by a person (details supplied) will be approved and expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46510/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 315. To ask the Minister for Health if convalescent care will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) who is due to leave a centre but who requires stepdown care before returning home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 332. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46507/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 333. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for drugs payment scheme in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46513/22]

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have the opportunity to congratulate the Minister of State and wish him well. I hope we will assist him in every way possible to achieve the absolute success that he strives for. I was tied up in committee meetings all day so I was not able to pay attention in the way that I would. I want to mention a couple of issues that come to mind. First, Britain is now a third...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I hesitate to again raise the issue of school transport, particularly given that the Minister has very helpfully and correctly waived charges for eligible students. A couple of problems remain, however, in respect of the logistics for students with concessionary tickets. In some cases, there is room on a bus but students cannot be carried for some reason I am unaware of. In other cases,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that an application for carer's allowance has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of their daughter who has type 1 diabetes and for whom they care on a full-time basis given that evidence of same has been provided; if the decision to refuse the application will be reviewed given the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commemorative Medals (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of the uniformed Prison Service who took part in recent centenary commemorations did not receive the appropriate commemorative medals that were awarded to others; if there was a particular reason for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46132/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chairman. I welcome the Minister and his officials to the meeting. I thank him for the information he gave us in continuation of the previous meeting. A couple of issues arise. First of all, at the time the bank proposed to downscale the availability of cash at a number of branches throughout the country, would it have been better if it had postponed whatever the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Of course, that may well be the case but, unfortunately, the public may draw their own conclusions and come to the conclusion that it was in retaliation. I questioned the chief executive on that and he also said it did not happen. I believe that from the point of view of a customer, the conclusion will inevitably be reached that there was some correlation. I know the Minister said that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I wish to ask about another issue in respect of shareholding by NatWest in Permanent TSB. Is that shareholding likely to have any influence on banking policy in this jurisdiction given that NatWest is pulling out of the market here in the form of Ulster Bank? It is not, therefore, retaining an executive position or anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is there no possibility that Permanent TSB might have to look over its shoulder in the event of it doing something that might not meet with approval? Is it purely an investment from the point of view of NatWest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. Given that banks generally are reducing their staff numbers right across the board and there is very considerable reduction, is that a factor in the determination of the ability of the banking system to avert fraud? For example, there was a time when the banks would telephone a customer in the event of there being something unusual, a large transaction or whatever the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: When before the committee, the banks were suggesting that the reserves they are forced to hold at present were in some ways a deterrent in regard to the extent to which they could lend to their customers. Is there a possibility of there being a reduction in the amount of reserves they are required to hold? The reason the reserves are there now is because of the financial collapse but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I have two final questions. Can we be assured that the pillar banks here are adequately funding the small business sector, the construction sector, etc.? Are they taking up their full responsibility there in order to ensure the ongoing growth, development and improvement of the sectors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The credit unions require a greater reserve. Is it possible that might change in the near future in order to address issues in terms of credit that might be necessary given that it has always been the tradition of banks to offer less than the customer required? The logic of that has always escaped me because if business persons are making applications for funding, they obviously have done...