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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for local authority loans currently before each of the local authorities in the greater Dublin area, including County Kildare; the plans in hand to meet such housing requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3502/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which local authorities in the greater Dublin area are awaiting infrastructural improvements on which the building of local authority houses or private houses is dependent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3503/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he proposes, through various local authorities, to utilise abandoned or derelict buildings in the centres of villages or towns throughout Ireland to meet the needs of those who require affordable or local authority houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which heritage buildings in disrepair or in danger of falling into disrepair can be restored for appropriate use including residential, commercial or community; the extent to which such action could benefit areas in urban and rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heritage sites throughout Ireland deemed to be at risk at present; his plans to address the issue on an ongoing basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3508/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Development Plan (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which young persons seeking to remain resident in their native areas can be facilitated throughout rural areas, thereby assuring the future of schools, shops and community life while maintaining good environmental and planning practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Development Plan (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he expects his Department to be in a position to resist the depopulation of rural Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Development Plan (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has identified the main factors contributing to the decline in the population of rural Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions refused by county in respect of one-off housing in rural areas affecting the local population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3510/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 13 January 2021, if this constitutes a departure from previous policy intentions indicated by successive Ministers, with particular reference to the alternative use of the site and its pivotal location in terms of education, recreation, the swimming pool project and adjacent primary school; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school bus service can be extended to children from Kilteel, Naas, County Kildare, who wish to attend second level schools in Naas due to the lack of available school places adjacent to their homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of various appeals in respect of overpayment and an award of payment in respect of prior entitlement in the case of a person (details supplied); if the deduction of €20 per week from the person's carer’s allowance payment takes account of the proposal to offset the sum and withholding of the sum and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 471. To ask the Minister for Health if priority is being afforded to family carers as part of the Covid-19 programme given the important role they play is protecting vulnerable members of society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3485/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 476. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the improvement of mental health facilities and supports in respect of both adults and children; if the provision of the necessary number of residential places are in hand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to improve the supports for children with special needs while requiring therapeutic or residential short-term or long-term assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3527/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (21 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if and when a felling licence will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3525/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.