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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 145. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the review of the community services programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23021/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Recreational Facilities (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 146. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of his proposal to introduce an indemnity scheme for landowners with regards to the use of their land for recreational purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Comhairle na Tuaithe (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 147. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the restructuring of Comhairle na Tuaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dog Breeding Industry (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 148. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the review of dog legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Projects (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 149. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of the 2019 libraries programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23025/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local and Community Development Programme (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 150. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the review of the operation of the local community development committees and the national public participation networks advisory group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23026/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Funding (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 151. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which LEADER funding is available to communities and bodies in County Kildare; the amount available for distribution in 2019; the amount made available in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 152. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects various supports administered by his Department to benefit persons, groups or bodies throughout County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 154. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects to be in a position to support applications from County Kildare for assistance under the various schemes operated by his Department in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23031/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 153. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next tranche of grant aid will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23030/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which earned homecare credits appear to have been reduced within the calculation for a State pension resulting in a lower rate of payment in the case of a person (details supplied); if a review will be carried out in this instance with a view to awarding full rate of pension; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guest and thank her for her informative submission. It is very important to discuss coalition-building in Europe, particularly at present. There are two sides to that argument. It is hugely important that EU member states form coalitions. The downside of that is that those coalitions could be wrong footed at some stage in the future and an association or group could find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: All my questions are small. As we discuss the need to support one another, to identify with other groups and gain strength by association and so on, this in itself is a criticism of what we are. The European Union suggests that every person in every member state is a committed member and equal in every way to one another. It says there is no difference whatever. If my car is in one part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I echo the Chairman's sentiments on the people who should see benefit from the package. These people are in the critical area of production for the country and the European Union. It is tied to and is essential to exports and jobs in the European Union. I compliment the Minister of State on her interaction and work throughout the European Union advertising Ireland's cause right across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I will defer to my colleague from Munster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their reports. Regarding the variation in terms of spending across the CAMH service, particularly the €40 to €92 per capita variation, is that caused by a local need or investment in outdated services or structures? What is the main cause of that? There is a significant difference - more than double - that needs to be addressed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent has any review been carried out with a view to addressing that imbalance? For example, I have an idea as to why staff cannot be found to work in CHO 5 but I would like to hear it more graphically. There should be no patchiness in the system. It should be equal across the board. We need to know what the cause or causes are and if there are particular causes, which I think we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: When there is a huge imbalance such as this, to whom do we apply? I am not asking Dr. Finnerty to make a comment or criticise the HSE, far from it and I would be the last to do so as the Chairman well knows, but we need to know precisely, starkly and graphically what the issues are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Are we to assume the various regions have a huge amount of autonomy in the degree to which they develop the service or fail to develop the service? What do the witnesses recommend to address this issue? I emphasise there should be no patches in the system that are not capable of delivering and dealing with the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Is this happening?