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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 413. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2125 of 21 April 2021, the options available to a family (details supplied) given the service recommended has a year long waiting list and they require assistance quicker than that time frame; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25255/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department or the HSE have examined the use of air purification units in buildings or vehicles in line with the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; if any examination has been carried out into the effectiveness of such units and the way they might best be deployed to assist in the defeat of Covid-19 as persons return to work; and if he...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy John McGuinness. I have been asked to remind members that their mobile phones should be switched off, and I hope mine is. This is important because it causes serious interference with broadcasting. For the purposes of the Official Report, I have been asked to identify members when they are called to speak. I welcome members and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I again call on the Minister to deliver his opening remarks.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I will allow opening remarks from any members of the committee who wish to speak.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I will add a question or two - it is too inviting to allow the occasion to pass. I presume this Bill will address any outstanding issues arising from the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation. To what extent does it address the issues arising from FEMPI throughout the public service? My other question relates to capital spending in future. To what extent will...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: That concludes Committee Stage. Do members have any questions or comments on the Bill before we conclude? They are all silent. That is a good thing as it indicates satisfaction. The Minister has made many remarks already. Does he have any further closing remarks?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: That was actually discussed at yesterday's meeting of the committee.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Pay Bill: Committee Stage (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Provision is being made insofar as the committee is required to do so.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (13 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Public Service Pay Bill 2020 and has made an amendment thereto. Under Standing Order 100(2), this shall be deemed to be the report of the select committee on the Bill....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: My question to the Taoiseach is on a subject that has been well worn over the past week and rightly so. Has a conflict of interest been determined in situations whereby investment funds can freely enter the housing market in such a way as to distort it, to prevent private home buyers from acquiring a home of their own, to prevent local authorities from acquiring houses in line with the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress to date in determining eligibility for the live performance support scheme in the case of a company (details supplied); when a decision is likely to issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for supplementary welfare allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24816/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Housing Issues (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that buyers and prospective buyers who have paid their deposit and signed contracts for houses at Mullen Park, Maynooth, County Kildare are not affected or impeded by investment companies who might seek to increase the price of the houses by various means; if it will be ensured that those seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise status in the case of a person (details supplied); if recent updates regarding work references have been taken into account in determination of a conclusion on the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24753/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that pregnant women and their partners have access to as much support as possible in respect of both prenatal and antenatal care given the ongoing situation with Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25192/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests this morning. I thank them for the work that they have done, and are currently undertaking, on behalf of women and babies. To what extent have they found empathy throughout their negotiations and discussions with the maternity hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Is work being done on that? Is it proposed to bring the campaign directly to the hospitals? Is it proposed, as part of the campaign, to engage with the hospitals to promote the issue on behalf of women and in general?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Has contact been made with all of the maternity hospitals or just one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Have the health issues that benefit women been pointed out and what has been the response from hospitals?