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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Back to Work Allowance Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the participation rates in the back to work enterprise allowance scheme in County Kildare in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in order to establish a trend.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of rent support payments in lieu of local authority housing made in the past five years to date; the potential for the replacement of such expenditure with directly built local authority houses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43575/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if arrangements can be entered into to defer for a reasonable period income tax in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43773/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for carer’s allowance refused on application and granted subsequently on appeal in each of the past four years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43838/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of non-contributory State pensions; the degree to which this number has fluctuated in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43839/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on a supplementary welfare payment other than rent support; the extent to which the number has fluctuated in the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43840/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for supplementary welfare allowance which have been refused on application and granted on appeal in each of the past four years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43843/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who received dental benefit in each of the past four years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43841/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who received ophthalmic benefit in each of the past four years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43842/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of rent support in lieu of local authority housing in each of the past eight years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43844/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the type of social welfare payment currently taking the longest to process; the degree to which the time taken to process all applications has fluctuated in the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43845/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance was terminated in the case of a person (details supplied) when they informed her Department they intended to do a training course in order to update their skills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43846/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department, through Intreo, works to ensure that persons suffering from a mental or physical illness are treated sympathetically and encouraged to obtain appropriate assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43847/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if transition from employment to unemployment payment and vice versa can be simplified with a view to eliminating possible hardship. [43848/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our witnesses for coming before the committee and for the information they have given. I will ask a couple of questions. First, I know that this may not have been specifically mentioned in Dr. de Buitléir's brief, but to what extent have private patients in the public hospital system tried to jump the queue? Is it happening and, if so, to what extent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: In the public health system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Given that private health insurance is costly, is it not an expensive way of creating an assurance, perhaps not factual, that people can speed up their access through the public health system? We all get replies to parliamentary questions in which we are told that nobody can speed up the process. We do not want the process speeded up; we want it dealt with such that people are not forever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: We have been instructed to listen carefully to what we have been told over the past 20 years regarding hospital beds. We were told all along that we had too many hospital beds and we did not need them. We were admonished at a high level for spending money on bricks and mortar because it was seen as unnecessary, and different ways were to be found to deal with patients in the future. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Dr. de Buitléir said: Obviously, the implementation of these recommendations gives rise to increases in public expenditure. The additional costs arise mainly from the loss of private income of public hospitals but also in relation to consultant pay - for those taking up the public-only contract - and the increased cost of treating greater numbers of public patients, and we have set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Bernard Durkan: That brings it up fairly close to what I was suggesting.