Results 981-1,000 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which reform, as a component in economic strategy, has achieved savings in line with projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Government Departments or bodies under their aegis that have shown the least progress in terms of public sector reform in the past four years; how this compares with those Departments that have achieved most in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which any audit of deficits in vital infrastructure has been undertaken with a view to identifying major capital works which might have a substantial positive impact on the economy in the event of the availability of appropriate funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29963/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which normal retirement, early retirement, or other factors are likely to feature in the context of staffing levels throughout the public sector in the course of the current year and the remaining years up to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a review of an application for a domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a recent application for a disability allowance can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a recent application for disability allowance can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress in determining an application for citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29579/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) to enable their son and daughter join them in this jurisdiction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 767. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary funds via the national treatment purchase scheme will be made available to facilitate urgent spinal fusion surgery in the case of a person (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if the current HSE inspection regime for vaping products entering the Irish market is adequately resourced to track all potential instances of non-compliant product entering the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29674/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 771. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024; when the general scheme will be referred to the Oireachtas Health Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny; for an update on his plans to publish a regulatory impact assessment with regard to the planned legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 774. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify, further to Parliamentary Question No. 622 of 16 April 2024, if there are home care staff in Ireland currently approved to administer eye drops for blind and vision impaired people currently in receipt of home care hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29692/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (9 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a SUSI grant can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29651/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice. The Deputy has four minutes.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Yes, indeed, I was a smoker for a long time. Thankfully, I am glad to be able to say that I no longer consume. I welcome the regulation of tobacco sales because the regulation element is important, from all sides. We all received correspondence from various people alleging various omissions from legislation in the past and possible abuses. Generally, however, people welcome the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I warmly support the proposals to reopen the western corridor and to extend it, as Deputy Kenny has said, to Sligo. I remember the time when Irish emigrants returning home after the summer holidays trailed their handkerchiefs out the windows of the trains on that same route as they returned to their jobs in Birmingham, London and various other places across the water. The scene is different...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he continues to monitor the effects of the dispute at Aer Lingus with particular reference to the urgent need to ensure that the general public are not discommoded other than to the minimum and that every effort is made to resolve this dispute and any other such disputes that might follow; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question was tabled when the scene was not so clear in relation to negotiations in the Aer Lingus dispute. I understand and appreciate the fact that those negotiations have progressed in the meantime and I hope, at this stage, that positive progress can continue. Anything the Minister can do to facilitate and encourage that would be appreciated.