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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she is actively involved in supporting cultural events at various locations nationally directly or through bodies under her aegis in each of the past two years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38006/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she has provided financial support to the arts nationally in the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38008/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she continues to support the film industry with particular reference to the need to encourage the use of Ireland as a favoured location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38009/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she has identified development goals for the film industry here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38010/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she has offered assistance towards specific developments in the arts such as music and drama events at local or community level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38011/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Built Heritage Investment Scheme (19 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which restoration and repairs have been initiated or are ongoing in respect of damaged historical buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38014/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Smith for offering the opportunity to speak in this very important debate. I do not go along with some of the things said, although I agree with many of them. I particularly want to congratulate the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs on the manner in which they have handled the negotiations to date through the European...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the staff of the Ceann Comhairle's office for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue which is of importance to the people of north Kildare, to wit, the urgent need for the augmentation of Garda strength in the constituency for which I speak. The constituency includes four large towns, each with a population approaching or in excess of 20,000,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State and his colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, for the positive nature of the reply. One of the areas that needs to be emphasised is the need for juvenile liaison officers. Given that we have a large population of young people who are not going anywhere and will remain young for some time, it is necessary to introduce all the aids we can to assist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: As an addendum to that, with regard to referrals coming from private patients entering the system or requiring urgent treatment, is there a culture in the public health sector to refer these patients elsewhere rather than deal with them in the event that their condition requires urgent and necessary treatment because I have come up against that and would like some clarification? I believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I am speaking in a wider context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: They are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I know that. If a private patient is in a difficult or dire situation requiring urgent treatment that is available in the public system, will that private patient be referred to the public system or will he or she be told "Sorry, you're a private patient. Go through the private sector"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: My question was whether there is a culture of referral elsewhere in the event of a patient in a serious condition requiring urgent treatment. Such a patient, being a private patient elsewhere, deserves and requires treatment of an emergency nature immediately, not when somebody has decided that the patient is private and will be dealt with differently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I have great respect for Dr. McKenna and I accept he genuinely believes that, but I have evidence to the effect that that is not the case. I am aware of a patient who was transported to this country from abroad in an emergency but who was refused access to the public health sector even though the expertise required to deal with the patient was in the public sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I strongly support that principle. The condition of the patient should be paramount in the determination of where, how and when treatment is given. I return to the issue of accreditation. INAB deals with accreditation and has a series of stages, although I will not list them. When tests were first referred to the Manchester laboratory, was its status sought? When did the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: How often might it occur that samples are sent to a laboratory without the referrer having clear prior knowledge of its standard and whether it has accreditation? My presumption was that if a hospital, the HSE, a consultant or even a GP sent a sample in some direction, somebody would know what the capabilities and the standard in a professional capacity of the laboratory were, and whether it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Beforehand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The Dublin laboratory was accredited whereas the Manchester one was not.