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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which participation in third-level education continues to be attractive to all students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42843/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which male and female students continued to be attracted in equal proportions to participation in the sciences; if a corrective measure or inducement is needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42844/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of An Garda Síochána, male and female; her plans to further increase the strength of the force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42809/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional places to be filled in An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42811/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently available for duty at any given time throughout the towns and villages of north County Kildare; the extent to which these present levels of deployment are in accord with the demographics of the area; the plans to increase these numbers in line with the population changes; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the Criminal Assets Bureau has achieved success against organised crime in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which recidivism is being confronted with particular reference to the number of cases in which repeated offences have occurred in respect of prisoners while on bail or on bail for more than one alleged crime; if further legislative changes are required to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offences committed by prisoners while on temporary or short-term release in the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42817/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons, men and women, respectively currently incarcerated; the extent to which cells are shared by two, three or more prisoners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42818/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Security (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the smuggling of drugs into prisons has been curtailed; the ambitions for same in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42819/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Facilities (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which repeat offenders are successfully segregated from first-time offenders in all prisons throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42820/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which rehabilitative and educational courses are made available to prisoners throughout the country with particular reference to first-time offenders with a view to encouraging them away from crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42821/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the full complement of staff remains available throughout the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42822/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional positions to be filled throughout the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42823/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate juvenile liaison officers are available throughout each Garda division and district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42824/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 370. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the availability of community liaison officers in each Garda division and district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42825/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases of juvenile crime currently being dealt with by juvenile liaison officers or other gardaí in each Garda division and district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42826/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Like other speakers, I congratulate the Commissioner on acquiring a portfolio that is very important and one that will grow in importance as time goes by. I want to raise a couple of issues that are of particular interest, some of which have been already referred to by other speakers to some extent. The first is the issue raised by Deputy O'Callaghan in regard to high mortgage interest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Like everybody else I thank our witnesses for coming to the committee this morning and for the information. I was a member of the previous health committee and there are some matters I will focus on for the moment. Public confidence in the system was affected by the cases where CervicalCheck did not go right and the women were not informed in time or the results were read incorrectly. To...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening and Care Services: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: There were other elements that affected the confidence of the patients, including the length of time it took to have the screening, the laboratory sequence of tests and the locations of the laboratories and so forth. Has all of that been resolved in the interim? That was an area of alleged incompetence. I fully accept, incidentally, what Dr. Russell says about the accuracy of tests...