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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 15 December 2023, if she will provide updated figures for the duration of illness benefit claims for those who transferred from EIB; if she will also provide the figure for claims lasting for 24, 36 weeks and 48+ weeks; if she will provide corresponding figures for disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Health and Safety (18 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of her consideration of long Covid as an occupational illness for front-line workers; if she has been furnished with a final reply from the Minister for Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23910/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 891 of 18 January 2023, if she will provide updated figures on overall numbers and the claimants in each time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23911/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: Some 120 front-line healthcare workers with long Covid are on a special leave scheme that will stop in 31 days. Hundreds more front-line workers with long Covid, including healthcare workers who contracted Covid since 15 November 2021, are left without any specific supports. The Government has been considering designating long Covid as an occupational illness, but I want to know when the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 36. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the additional costs associated with disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16971/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to support people with autism and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16970/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the precincts of the Leinster House complex only. I ask members and witnesses to please turn off their mobile phones or ensure they are on silent mode. I advise members of the committee who are participating in the meeting remotely to use the raise hand function on Microsoft Teams if they wish to contribute. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: Thank you, Ms Mullin, for your opening statement. I will start with Deputy Ó Cuív.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: Thankfully, we do not have a huge amount of commonage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: I have a related question. I know that Finders operates in the UK as well. What has been the experience of Finders in terms of its dealings with the financial institutions in the UK? Deputy Ó Cuív has identified that it has not had a huge amount of dealings with the financial institutions here in terms of the witnesses’ evidence this morning on safety deposit boxes, except...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: I am not trying to put Ms Mullin under pressure but it would be useful to the committee to know what is the experience of Finders in terms of its dealing with the UK financial institutions. Is it because there is a different legal responsibility on them or is it that they just have different procedures there? It would be useful to the committee in the context of the consideration of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: Ms Fleming spoke about probate, Henrietta Street and the Registry of Deeds but she did not mention travelling to Portlaoise. That is the question I am asking. Even getting access to the records is the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: It is quite difficult to access them but they are public records. The frustrating thing about them is that, being public records, they should be available. The difficulty is that because of what happened in the War of Independence and the Civil War – we had a commemoration last Sunday – a large number of other records are missing. The Land Commission records are probably the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: With that in mind, does the committee agree we should write to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine on foot of the evidence we have heard this morning so efforts will be made to make the Land Registry records publicly accessible and so he can outline to us his plans to have them digitised and available online? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: A Kelly from Roscommon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: They say they are not related anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: All members of this committee have been very strong on trying to reinvigorate towns and villages across the country. One of the biggest challenges of local authorities is trying to track down the owners of properties. That is why, in recent times, local authorities have been engaging with organisations like Finders International Ireland. I acknowledge this important work because many...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (23 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the local hackney pilot; his plans to expand it to other communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24461/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with an organisation (details supplied) which has sought extra time for dyslexic students sitting their Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24761/23]