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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assistance that can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22313/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card might be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 277. To ask the Minister for Health when a social worker might be appointed to address the needs of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22309/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Chair was asking questions on an interesting subject. We have all read books about it at this stage. Off that subject, a couple of things come to mind. In the case of allowances, I refer to those who rent out their home to a separate entity for a particular reason and then rent a house elsewhere because it is convenient or necessary to do so. Why is it not possible to allow a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I accept all that but I went to the coalface on this particular issue several times in the most demanding and sensitive of cases where a family had to split up for a particular reason - it was a real reason - and move to a different part of the country. The family rented a house there and rented their own house to somebody else. They did it for reasons of necessity. There was no other way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Rent received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I think Mr. Cody might be correct. I may write to him again on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Another issue relates to business, and farming comes into that area, as well as other forms of business. It relates to the ability of individuals to write off against tax a major purchase to enhance their business and the degree to which that is or is not available. Is this equally available to everybody involved - big businesses, small businesses, big farmers and small farmers? How strict...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Chair and my colleague on my right referred to a change in farming practices. There has been an increase in very large enterprises covering a wide area and generally capitalising on the benefits of the size of the operation, which obviously cannot apply to smaller operators. As a result, the small farming outfits are diminishing rapidly and will diminish to a greater extent in the time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: There is a need for a re-evaluation that will in some way ensure, though not necessarily penalise people, there is a reasonably level playing field, so that the big club in football and hurling, as it were, does not gain everything. Recent events would indicate that there is a place for everybody in that particular area. However, it is essential that the system is seen to be fair, so that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Revenue Commissioners are to be congratulated on the way they calculated the various segments that have been collected, the integral ones such as foreign direct investment, larger operations and so on. It is obvious that if a company is not able to meet its current taxes, the reason has to be identified and whether that reason can be addressed and remedied in sufficient time to enable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: With regard to the equalisation of taxation all over the globe, which has been much pursued in some areas, as a nation we will not have too many friends. Whatever looks to be the most punitive is the one that will be foisted upon us. We have to be very tenacious in our pursuit. Our friends are ourselves. We will not have anybody else. I know some of the people pursuing the other option,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I think that is acceptable because it is easier to set it out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their submissions. Much is made of the embargo as a reason for the cessation or the lack of services at the moment but there was quite a considerable extension of spending before the embargo came in, to the extent that a number of Ministers called out the fact that there was a danger of runaway spending that could become very threatening to the entire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Who was privy to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That is correct but, given the importance of the lack of services already outlined, should that not be at the top of the list for all people involved in the negotiations regarding the availability of funding and specialist places and so on, and in particular the areas where CHOs 1 to 7 have been funded but no team as yet has been funded in CHOs 5, 8 and 9? Surely those things should have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The only problem is that we do not attend the meetings where these goodies, these necessities, are handed out. Who is the person we need to talk to? I know the head of the HSE is one of the people we need to talk to and we will talk to him, but it is very easy to say "Look, it is the embargo. We cannot do anything." It is not the embargo. It is the order of importance along with all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: One Minister is actively pursuing the issues to which Ms Rogers has referred, to her frustration, I would say, at this stage. Again, it comes down to the same issue. It is not the embargo. It is something else. There is something else that needs to be addressed and that is in the overall situation whereby everyone lines up to make their case. That is the natural thing and it has to be...