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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 284. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Irish Aid programme, multilateral and bilateral, continues to target those for whom the aid was intended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34214/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 285. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of bilateral aid programmes currently being progressed by Irish Aid; the extent to which they continue to make a difference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34215/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 286. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which Irish Aid continues to engage in projects providing drinking water to communities suffering from a lack of clean water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34216/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 287. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which Irish Aid continues to engage with communities across the globe that are deeply affected by a lack of basic health and hygiene requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Boko Haram and Al Shabaab are being deterred through the activities of the international community or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34219/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to assist in the fight against political and human rights abuses in Belarus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34220/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an extension will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); when the extension will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34222/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an extension will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); when an extension will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34223/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the decision to make the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26119/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chair and I welcome our guests to this morning’s meeting. I have just a couple of questions. What worries me most, as I have often said before, is that when economists start talking about the things that can happen with relative ease, I begin to get worried because that has not been the experience in the past. My first question is what do our guest witnesses consider as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: If they have an income of €125,000 before tax, should they presumably have an income after tax of roughly half of that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The point that I want to get at there is that that we, as Dáil Deputies and Oireachtas Members, are regarded as well-paid. We would pay an amount greater than that. I would admit myself to not having any special pension arrangements or anything like that but approximately 50% of the income is gone by one means or another. My next question is on pensions. Dr. Collins is proposing as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: As public representatives, we would have dealt with quite a number of disgruntled contributors to various pensions funds in recent years who found that they would qualify for part of what they anticipated or would receive a minimal amount per month which, effectively, was no good to them. To what degree has Dr. Collins consulted representatives of pension funds and their contributors to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am looking at Deputy Boyd Barrett. In 25, 30 or 40 years, when it comes to him having access to a pension, to which he has contributed in good faith, which we have to do through the public pension fund, I would like to think that he would get the benefits of it. I would find it difficult to be able to sell to people that, in the future, they are not going to have a pension like there used...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I want to mention pension lump sums and anticipation on the part of the contributors. In a different incarnation I was Minister of State at the Department of Social Welfare and had responsibility for dealing with the fallout in respect of cases where anticipated gains from lump sums did not materialise. What I want to mention and for everybody dealing with this issue to keep in mind is that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: May I interrupt briefly? You can become a millionaire by virtue of housing inflation in a very short time and-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I know that, but you can be a millionaire in terms of the value of your house. If our guests were listening to the news this morning, they may have heard it mentioned that a modest house in the Rathmines region is on sale for €1 million-plus. That is an indication of how these things can and do change, which can put the taxpayer in a very difficult position at a time when he or she...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Given the ongoing impact of Brexit on the food-producing sector on the island of Ireland, what efforts continue to be made to minimise the impact and address the issues arising?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of naturalisation application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 287. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE medicines management programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he...