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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which his Department monitors the various traffic routes nationally with a view to ensuring advancement of upgrading proposals before reaching gridlock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22321/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which north Kildare rail commuters can expect enhanced and improved services in the future, given the demographic trends and the need for the public to have confidence in the transport system in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date in the preparation of the extension of the DART to Maynooth and further afield to such locations as Kilcock and Enfield, with a view to catering for the commuter belt across north County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22324/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for the one-parent family allowance can be processed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct rate of disability allowance or other allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment might be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22310/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which a disability allowance was reduced in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a naturalisation certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22214/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in assessing an application to have a deportation revoked in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assistance that can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22313/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card might be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 277. To ask the Minister for Health when a social worker might be appointed to address the needs of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22309/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Chair was asking questions on an interesting subject. We have all read books about it at this stage. Off that subject, a couple of things come to mind. In the case of allowances, I refer to those who rent out their home to a separate entity for a particular reason and then rent a house elsewhere because it is convenient or necessary to do so. Why is it not possible to allow a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I accept all that but I went to the coalface on this particular issue several times in the most demanding and sensitive of cases where a family had to split up for a particular reason - it was a real reason - and move to a different part of the country. The family rented a house there and rented their own house to somebody else. They did it for reasons of necessity. There was no other way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Rent received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I think Mr. Cody might be correct. I may write to him again on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Another issue relates to business, and farming comes into that area, as well as other forms of business. It relates to the ability of individuals to write off against tax a major purchase to enhance their business and the degree to which that is or is not available. Is this equally available to everybody involved - big businesses, small businesses, big farmers and small farmers? How strict...