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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1309. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appropriate appointment and treatment in early date can be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14026/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1377. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a full medical card will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) who has eight dependent children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14416/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1378. To ask the Minister for Health if and when provision can be made for a person (details supplied); if adequate facilities remain available to meet such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1379. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card might issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1380. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14432/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1381. To ask the Minister for Health if and when appropriate knee surgery will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 1489. To ask the Minister for Health if an ADHD assessment can be secured for a person (details supplied) who requires same to be completed as soon as possible, whose family are concerned for their well-being, who was in State care aged 5 to 18, and whose GP has now referred them to the appropriate services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14808/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle and the Minister of State can understand the frustration of local public representatives because everything is answered except the question that is fundamental to the issue, that is, how to restore the access that was there before September last. At that time, some of us put forward the idea of seeking an interim injunction to state the case for the State to access its...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That is what I am trying to do. We will be visiting this site again.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Indeed it is and I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this particularly important issue for north Kildare and for the country. It is important for the protection of the national interests in the arts, the preservation of great houses, for the history of area and for the need to ensure that whatever happens around Castletown House has the full support of the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the provisions already referred to. I have similar concerns as my colleague-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We can progress that as the day moves on. We shall see.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Another one of concerns raised was the supply and continuity of medicines. I welcome the provisions in the Bill. I do not want to get into the arguments we had over the years of there being a difference between branded medicines and their alternatives. However, continuity of supply is important. The Irish Pharmacy Union acknowledged that there was a difficulty because Ireland accounts for...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I might add one point to that. It would be ironic if matters were to develop such that countries outside of the European Union were able to benefit from a continuity of supply to a greater extent than a country inside the European Union. We need to have that as our headline and goal. By all means, we should supply whatever is required, but in the pecking order we have to supply those...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The issue being discussed is important. The Commission is subject to the Single Market also. It cannot decide that it will ignore the Single Market here because there is immediate provision for more influential countries and we have to kowtow to them. We do not. The Single Market stands and on that we will stand or fall. If we allow it to be established that particular circumstances...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am upset now but I cannot take it up at the moment as I am otherwise engaged. However, there are a couple of things we need to keep in mind. The threshold is too low at the moment. It needs to be shifted. As my colleague has said, it has not been moved for many years. For example, a person with a disability may be on an invalidity pension. That person is disqualified and does not get...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This issue is not relevant to the meeting we just had, but it has come to my attention a couple of times recently. I refer to waiting lists for cataracts, which are very acute, particularly if people live alone, and they do. Their sight diminishes at an alarming rate having been on a waiting list for two or three years. Suddenly, they panic, and the family come together and decide to go...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when all the recommendations contained in the report on the Defence Forces are likely to be implemented including the issues around gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the European Union might see fit to contribute towards this country's defence and security with particular reference to coastal air and sea surveillance, given the significant shoreline and the multiplicity of undersea cables in the seas around our coast and the contribution this could make to European security; and if he...