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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a basic social welfare payment will be awarded notwithstanding the absence of stamp 4 or equivalent in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16283/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a public services card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an emergency or exceptional needs payment can issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16898/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16355/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 819. 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. [17067/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 921. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the reimbursement of luxturna (details supplied); the progress made on this issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16572/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 1073. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a discretionary medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 1130. To ask the Minister for Health when a dietician will be appointed to the Maynooth community care unit which currently does not have a dietician on either a part-time or full-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17324/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the committee. I thank him particularly for, and note, the flood relief works that have been undertaken so far and are still in the pipeline - no pun intended. In Kildare, I note the works in the Morell River, which were delayed due to court proceedings, are up and running now. How are they progressing? I note much development work has been...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: There is also Maynooth Castle, the Geraldine Castle in Maynooth, which has been the beneficiary of funding from central Government in the past. Centrally located and steeped in history, it is in reasonably good condition but needs to remain that way. I would say in conclusion that it is hugely important to ensure that the buildings do not fall into disrepair in the sense that they are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I will encourage that dialogue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the information provided. A couple of issues come to mind which I have had to deal with recently. The first relates to discretionary medical cards and the medical cards issued on the basis of life-threatening illness. I would have thought that, during the course of Covid, those who were about to lose their medical card or have it reviewed and who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The problem I am concerned with is the emphasis on a number of occasions on the reference to end of life. My response to that is that people who have a life-threatening diagnosis have enough to be worried about without trying to determine whether they can get a letter from somebody to say they have two or three months to live, or whatever the case may be. They are suffering enough already....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: What is the waiting time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chairman.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Given that a continuous and adequate supply of vaccine is fundamental to the success of the fight against Covid-19, is the Tánaiste satisfied that adequate efforts are being made at European level to find alternative and continuous sources of the vaccine to replace those vaccine supplies that have not been fulfilled already?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date in providing access to high-speed broadband in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16063/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (25 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 148. 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); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15994/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Leave to Remain (25 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 152. 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); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16069/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (24 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the national development plan, he expects to see positive changes to meet the ongoing requirements of the travelling public with particular reference to the urgent need to meet the requirements of commuters in more densely populated areas such as County Kildare to encourage the use of rapid rail; and if he will...