Results 1-20 of 253 for going forward speaker:Denis Naughten

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...the offshore renewable energy sector is to establish an offshore renewable development authority, similar to IDA Ireland. This is something that was unanimously adopted by Dáil Éireann in December 2021, but which the Government has failed to act upon. This new authority could drive a fully co-ordinated national action plan, with responsibility ranging from research and...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...implications for the development of orphan drugs, not just in this country but across Europe and globally. It is hoped that having a unified patent system in Europe will ensure more investment goes into the development of orphan drugs and that we can thereafter get access to them. In the preceding debate, one of the issues raised was the possibility of reimbursement through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...in terms of clustering those homes. If there are 100 homes in a large traditional local authority housing estate that can be clustered together, it will be far cheaper for the contractor to go in and maybe do the local authority work as well as the warmer homes work as all the houses are pretty much the same. It could reduce costs, particularly for local authorities. The big problem I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank our guests from the SEAI and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for their evidence. This is an ongoing issue for the committee. We are going to make recommendations in this area. If they have any further feedback, or any suggestions or thoughts, on how policies could be adapted or changed, or new proposals that may be brought forward, we would like to hear from our guests. I know...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: I congratulate the Minister on becoming a granny again - Granny Heather - to little Charlotte who was born earlier today as she got up to speak. She is a sister for little Arthur as well. I promise the Minister that all of us here in the House will ensure the very expeditious passage of this legislation so she can spend more time babysitting over the Christmas period. A year has now...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...island? How will the programmes the Minister has spoken about address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by the renewable energy sector? How is the cross-Government co-ordination going? This is one of the big concerns I have. I know the Minister will come back to me officially and tell me everything is hunky-dory but I have been on the other side of the table and I know...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...the first round of funding that now need to be scaled up in the second phase. We were promised a second phase in relation to it but we still do not know what is happening with it. I am not going ask the Minister to respond on the hoof in relation to it, but I would be grateful if she could come back to the committee on that funding programme. The second point, and the Minister might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: ..., and I launched a number of years ago a service with Android phones that allowed for the emergency services to determine geographically where someone was if they had dialled 112 or 999, but that is not going to be feasible once we switch off the 3G service. If Deputy Ó Cuív thinks things are bad at the moment, it is going to get worse when the 3G service is switched off. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...it. I suggest that the Department, in its engagement with this committee, include that report as part of our review. Perhaps it needs to change in terms of our request to the Department coming forward but we could look at this in conjunction with it. It is not productive to deal with all of these different strands separately. It may be a weakness on our part that we only look at the...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...reports that foreign direct investment flows have declined by 35% in developing countries, compared with a reduction of 12% in developed countries. As the Minister of State knows, the ongoing war in Ukraine continues to cast its shadow, increasing global economic uncertainty and adversely affecting global trade and investment flows. This disruption caused by the war also helped to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Grants and Bridging Finance for Community Groups: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Traynor. On his last point, the whole idea behind the urban and rural regeneration funds was that communities would come forward with ideas rather than the Government providing another set of standard lighting or standard public seating in every village in the country and deciding that no matter what part of the country you are in, the streetscape would be exactly the same...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...says about data collection. In 2023, Ireland is one of the biggest software exporters in the world but we have to do a census in respect of people with disabilities and their needs to know what is going on. There is something fundamentally wrong when we are still using technology from the last millennium to try to develop policy in this area. It is a challenge right across our health...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I point out to Deputy Murnane O'Connor that Senator Clonan spoke earlier about two boys of 12 years of age going to school for the first time. That is a damning indictment of the services we have today. If the shoe were on the other foot and the parents did not send the children to school for 21 days, they would be prosecuted, yet we can have a situation where children do not go to school...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...footprint of our gas network in this country very quickly with the stroke of a pen. However, I do not think that will happen if Gas Networks Ireland is under the remit of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. It is wrong that this is the case and that is the reason I wanted to raise the issue here. I know the Minister of State will come back and quote an EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...Department could furnish the committee with whatever statistics and data it has on this. The committee will take a further look at it. We may call Mr. Hession and his colleagues in separately to go through this specific issue again. It is the one issue that I flagged up in the review of the documentation. It seems to be a bizarrely low threshold. I take on board what Mr. Hession is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...public document would be available. Féileacáin suggested that it would be done the other way round and that the register would be available publicly for all registrations that take place from this point forward but parents would have the option to seek for that to remain private. The default would then be public rather than setting up a separate register again. In its...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: At the outset, I thank my colleagues for bringing forward this motion. I thank Deputy Grealish, Maria Burke, and Teresa Delaney in particular for drafting the motion. I thank the Minister of State for taking this motion on board wholeheartedly. We all know her commitment in relation to this. That is clearly reflected in the significant increase that we have seen in the home help and home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: .... Their neighbours' homes were insulated and their homes were left to the end of the list. That was not an effective policy either. In terms of drawing on the submission and looking at where we go from here, I note the evidence we have heard today, pointing out that we have an estimated 337,000 people who cannot afford to heat their homes adequately. We are talking about the population...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Creating Our Future Report: Science Foundation Ireland (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...a book of inspiration. Often in this country, we look at the glass as empty rather than half full and find what is wrong with things. This is actually a consultation indicating where we want to go. It is about a book of ideas on where we would like to get to. May I make a suggestion to the delegates on communicating with the public on this matter? They have done a good job to date....