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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses likely to become available from the private sector developments to meet the needs of local authority housing applicants over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to indicate, based on the current numbers of applicants on local authority housing lists, in respect of each county, if the estimated time by which he expects sufficient reduction of applicants on local authority waiting lists to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24552/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he proposes, through the various local authorities, to utilise abandoned or derelict buildings in the centres of villages or towns throughout the country to meet the needs of those who require affordable or local authority houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24548/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which young people seeking to remain resident in their native areas can be facilitated throughout rural Ireland 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. [24549/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 201. 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 indigenous population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24550/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct-build local authority houses started or completed in each of the past three years to date; the extent to which he expects to increase this number in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24551/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the public housing programme is progressing in north Kildare, with particular reference to the issue of homeless families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the fuel allowance (details supplied) will be reviewed with a view to ascertaining if other persons in the household might qualify for such payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 260. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 2 May 2024, if the case will be considered for even a partial contribution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24560/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [22709/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee this morning. Are they happy with the structures over which they preside, their effectiveness and their ability to respond to particular situations, and do they see the need for any changes? I ask this against the backdrop of this committee being very specific during the Sláintecare debate on how the whole country could be represented...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Does that culture involve an "us and them" attitude where we protect our spot and we will repel at all borders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: But it is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent is Mr. Devane targeting the sensitive areas such as bed or trolley counts, and the number of persons on trolleys on any given day, which, of course, relates to patients in accident and emergency departments throughout the country? Is Mr. Devane satisfied that adequate attention is being given to each?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We seem to have ongoing trouble attracting and retaining staff. Can Mr. Devane give some indication as to the main reasons for this? We know about the working conditions. That is understood, and we accept it as a given. Do we pay salaries and wages that are comparable or almost comparable with those available in other locations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In terms of nurses, non-consultant hospital doctors or other staff, how do their pay and conditions compare with those available in other jurisdictions, including our next-door neighbours and various other locations, which continually draw from the qualified personnel that we have here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That really was not the question, though. I did not say that.