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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: In fairness, we have already made that recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: Yes and we will be incorporating that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív. All of us in this room, on the Department side and on the Oireachtas side, understand the social welfare code pretty well. We spent a considerable amount of time talking about a number of hypothetical cases. The argument was made very well on both sides in relation to it. There are implications, however, in some of the alterations with these heads of Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: To be quite honest, they are the ones who will benefit disproportionately from this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: We know what Deputy Ó Cuív will get into when he eventually retires from here: he will be a pension adviser. Will Mr. Duggan come back on those comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: It will probably be a recommendation from the committee anyway that that would be included in it. In terms of the actuarial calculation, as it is set out here in the proposed legislation, for every full year one gets an actuarial calculation. If one does not retire until one's 67th birthday, one will get a form of a top-up. How does that apply to someone who is short contributions? Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Duggan for that. I thank Mr. Duggan, Mr. Walsh and Ms Mannion for their contributions and for their engagement with the committee which will be ongoing as this proposed legislation is passed. I thank them for the answers that they provided to us this morning which give us substantial food for thought. The committee will now go into private session. Is that agree? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: Am I correct in saying there is a saving?

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

Denis Naughten: I want to discuss the broader issue raised by Deputy Dillon. I accept that this Bill is far from perfect. There are technical issues, and the Department has flagged those. There issues with language. There are logistical challenges regarding the way the legislation has been drafted. We are the first ones to hold up our hands and say that the Bill needs to be amended. However, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I return to a topic I raised with the Tánaiste here on Leaders Questions last May regarding the diagnoses and care pathways for patients with rare diseases. Despite their name, rare diseases are not rare at all. We all know someone with a rare disease. In Ireland, about one in 12 people are or, at some stage in their lives, will be affected by such a condition. This means that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Even after the tortuous road to diagnosis, patients in many instances have to educate the doctors who are treating them. That is because the expertise does not exist in Ireland for many of the conditions, due to their rarity. To address this, the EU cross-border directive mandated the establishment of the EU reference network to link rare disease clinicians right across the EU. Irish...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I rise to support my colleagues regarding section 39 and section 56 workers. Everyone in this House knows the impact this will have on services. All of us have received correspondence from parents, families and service users who are extremely anxious about it. Because next week is budget week, we will not get the opportunity to debate this. Could we have an emergency meeting of the...

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

Denis Naughten: I will come in to make a couple of quick points. I take what Senator Flynn 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...

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

Denis Naughten: Here is the difficulty. I had a teacher one time who told me that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I do not doubt it. I also say that in fairness to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. However, our only tool here is legislation. We have the opportunity to do that, and I think we should consider it.

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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will make a decision on designating long-Covid as an occupational illness for frontline workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider an extension to the grazing season under the ACRES scheme on geese and swan lands and breeding wader lands for one month to 1 November 2023 due to the dramatic impact of summer flooding in the Shannon and Suck Callows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42169/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 589. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive an appointment (details supplied); if they have been graded as urgent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the drawdown of the €110,000 allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register; when a programme manager post was advertised; when interviews were held; when the appointment will be made; if he will confirm that any underspend in the 2023 allocation will be rolled over into the 2024 spend; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the drawdown of the funding allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit, in conjunction with NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study; when a programme manager post was advertised; when interviews were held; when the appointment will be made; when data analytics...