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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be re-registered as appropriate registration for a secondary school teacher as opposed to their current FET registration with particular reference to the number of years' experience in their case who is at a financial loss due to this registration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which integration is being seriously pursued with a view to ensuring that the best possible options are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29077/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Policy (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the degree to which integration is being satisfactorily pursued as a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29078/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which equality issues continue to arise within his Department; the extent to which these issues are being addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29079/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department continues to liaise with youth organisations with a view to maximise beneficial contact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent and level of his Departments interaction with youth and youth organisations with a view to identifying and meeting specific targets in relation to issues of concern; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which equality issues are being addressed with particular reference to persons of all ages with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which children with disabilities can expect to receive adequate care and attention and access to services now and in the future; the degree to which his Department has identified issues of interest in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in foster or other care in State or private institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the degree to which the welfare of children continues to be provided for all circumstances whether in State or other care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 240. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the obvious steps that can be most readily taken to ensure that individual cases referred to Tusla or other bodies are likely to receive urgent and ongoing attention of the highest quality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which Tusla has adequate resources at its disposal in order to deal with any issues reported to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Departments (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if adequate provision is in place to ensure that children with disabilities do not have to wait unnecessarily at accident and emergency departments in the event of being referred there for other than their own specific disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of the status of an application in the case of a person (details supplied); if a new application is required in view of the recent announcement regarding a draft scheme to regularise undocumented persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28820/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) who applied in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when the application will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28877/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied); when the application will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29089/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for coming before the committee. That is about the end of my jumping for joy because the council's report is sobering. I am concerned about two issues. We are aware of the potential diminution of receipts from corporate profits tax. It is difficult to identify in the midst, heat and wake of Covid that we can at same time take the corrective measures Mr....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: May I ask another question before that? Does Mr. Barnes believe a sudden retraction might have the effect of snuffing out the recovery and the acceleration the economy needs and is likely to take at this time? We might not have a recovery or it might be a very deflated recovery over a period of years if we take too draconian a measure to slow down taxation from the corporation tax side and...