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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to meet the needs of people with disabilities of all ages and gender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he continues to liaise with youth group representatives in County Kildare, and throughout the country, to establish supportive dialogue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26268/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department liaises with the Department of Education with a view to putting in place integrated after-school child care facilities for children in their school buildings to ensure appropriate care is available for children whose parents work full-time; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he proposes to use equality as a means of ensuring proper and adequate services for those deemed to be in need of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26270/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the concerns of parents of children with mental health problems are regularly monitored with a view to ensuring the availability of adequate residential places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26271/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in the various forms of care, institutional or otherwise; the degree to which he is satisfied with the level and quality of the care in all such situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26272/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if dental services will be for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25965/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for going to the efforts he has gone to and I again thank the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating this debate. I understand the problem but, unfortunately, some of us have been around Castletown Estate when it was in its previous ownership, in Connolly-Carew's time. We got to know all the people who worked on the estate and we listened to their queries over a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue again and for permitting me to raise it on many occasions in the past. I also thank Minister of State from coming into the House to reply. I thank him for his work since his appointment in attempting to resolve this particular issue. Despite his best efforts, the Castletown House saga continues. It is a bit like the "Forsyte...

Committee on Public Petitions: Amendment of the Child Care Act 1991: Engagement with the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am not a member of the committee. I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to speak for a few moments in support of the women and the case that has been made. I particularly want to emphasise the importance of the rights of the child. The rights of the child must be heard and the child's interests kept to the fore in all cases, regardless of whether there is litigation. It is no harm...

Committee on Public Petitions: Amendment of the Child Care Act 1991: Engagement with the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Apologies, it is on now. We need to recognise the necessity to pursue the case and cause at every level and to vindicate the concerns and treatment expressed by those people, be they children, mothers or, in some cases, fathers. Those concerns, as expressed to the committee and to all of us, need to be vindicated in the hope that something might be done. I am confident that we are coming...

Committee on Public Petitions: Amendment of the Child Care Act 1991: Engagement with the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for the opportunity again. I just wanted to point out that, in fairness, Tusla is bound by the in camera rule, and anything that is affected by the in camera rule in any other quarter is restricted. It is not possible to get the degree of information or to challenge those who may have questions to answer in cases where the in camera rule applies....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 33. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department and the HSE continue to engage with the various hospitals throughout the country, with a view to improving the throughput at accident and emergency services in order to ensure early diagnosis/full triage in the quickest possible time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25745/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor, assess and remedy any shortcomings in the delivery of health services, whether in regard to access to homecare, general medical services and capacity requirements in whatever area, with a view to resolution in the short term in order to make the health services in this country a more attractive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied that agri-food imports into this country from whatever source are only allowed from countries adhering to similar carbon reduction measures that apply in this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25748/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to indicate, in light of recent developments at Castletown, Celbridge, County Kildare, whether the spending of €25 million on the project was wise given that the next door neighbour clearly intends to impede access to the house and gardens by placing a locked gate on the access route from the M4; if such a possibility was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what provision is currently available for emergency services to access Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare from the M4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25834/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment can be made available to a person (details supplied), both of whose parents passed away in the past year leaving them with exceptionally high bereavement costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25857/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if household benefit is payable (details supplied). [25858/24]