Results 14,741-14,760 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 435. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU and UN colleagues continue to monitor event sin the horn of Africa with a view to intervening to challenge abuses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38709/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to encourage a peace process in the Arab-Israeli disputed territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38710/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which international efforts are being made to protect women and children in the various worldwide warzones at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38711/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 438. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish aid is directed towards providing irrigation or water systems for deserving communities globally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38712/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 439. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to support calls for the deployment of UN peacekeepers to various trouble spots globally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38713/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which child soldiers are being used in various conflicts worldwide at present; the efforts the international community continues to take to address these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 441. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he continues to encourage colleagues at EU and UN levels to address the issue of the ever-increasing number of refugees who are forced to risk their lives while attempting improve their quality of life and economic well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38715/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 442. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the situation in the western Balkans remains stable and to which the region prepares for EU membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38716/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 443. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which it is accepted that the rule of law should prevail across all EU and non-EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38717/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community continues to assist countries with economic and-or political difficulties in Latin America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38718/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38096/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38120/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal will be accepted in the case of a person (details supplied); if an oral hearing will be facilitated at an early date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38216/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for jobseeker's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be held in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38872/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Collection (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps a person (details supplied) is required to take to compel a family member living in the USA to provide personal information which has been deemed relevant to their case by her Department but which would impact the family member’s own family and breach data protection rules; if her Department has the power...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Collection (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one-parent family payment claims refused in each social welfare region throughout the country in each of the past five years to date; the degree to which data protection rules were disregarded when compiling information that would ultimately result in the decision to refuse each case; the number of such cases...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare inspectors currently employed in each social welfare region throughout the country; the extent to which these numbers have fluctuated over the past ten years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if due process and fair procedures can be considered to have been followed in an application and appeals process in which the factual information provided by a social welfare inspector, later found to be incorrect, is relied upon to make the decision in respect of an appeal; the steps taken by her Department to ensure due...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 712. 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); when a decision is likely to issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38025/20]