Results 20,561-20,580 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his plans to extend the special scheme of paid leave for healthcare workers suffering from long Covid; if he intends to extend or replace this scheme before it is due to end on 31 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42979/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Covid-19 booster vaccines are being restricted to older and vulnerable people when US health officials are recommending that everyone over the age of six months receive the latest annual Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of general schemes referred by his Department to an Oireachtas committee for pre-legislative scrutiny from 1 January 2016 to date; the date each was referred; the date that the general scheme was published for the public to review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42951/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Proposed Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 239. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of general schemes referred by her Department to an Oireachtas Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny from 1 January 2016 to date; the date each was referred; the date that the general scheme was published for the public to review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42956/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (5 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Ireland will accede to the UN Water Convention; the timeline for this; the outstanding steps to be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 370. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she intends to launch the 2024 digital innovation fund; if the new round of funding will include supports to enable scale up to national level of projects which have been successfully trialled at county level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43342/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Budget 2024 had two big issues hanging over it. One was the corporation tax receipts and the second was fallout from the war in Ukraine and its impact on the cost of living. I welcome the announcement by the Government of the establishment of the Future Ireland Fund to set aside the additional corporation tax receipts to meet our future needs. I am really concerned, however, that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Good morning. Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House only. I remind all those in attendance to make sure that their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. I welcome the witnesses. I wish to point out that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the presentations they make to the committee....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Ms Thyne for presenting her evidence. I invite Professor Murphy to deliver her opening remarks.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (12 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the steps taken to monitor and minimise contamination from water runoff on our national road network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (12 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the steps taken to monitor and manage contamination from water runoff on our national road network; the steps taken by TII in the management of attenuation ponds to treat such contaminated water before its discharge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (12 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary pupils respectively suspended in each of the past five years; the corresponding number for the number of students expelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44560/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 19 January 2023, if he will outline the outcome from the engagement with the Minister for Rural and Community Development or the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media, on this issue concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Article 8 of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive 2014 (2014/61/EU) will be enacted into Irish law by the end of 2023; the reason it has not been implemented to date; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45668/23]

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

Denis Naughten: Apologies have been received from Senators Róisín Garvey and Mark Wall. Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House only. I remind those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. I welcome the witnesses. They are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the...

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

Denis Naughten: Mr. Egan, without interruption, please.

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

Denis Naughten: I wish to deal with poverty indicators first. They are a key element of the performance targets. The difficulty is that there is a time lag between the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures when compared with the Department of Social Protection figures. What is being done between the Department and the CSO to try to get an indicator that is more time relevant? Due to the time lag, it is...

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

Denis Naughten: I understand that. Within the methodology, there is only so much that can be done in that regard, which I accept. I am more indicating if there were live sets of data that would be indicative of what is happening concerning the poverty data. The CSO, for argument's sake, might say that grocery price inflation is very indicative of the trends in poverty. I am only throwing that out there....

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

Denis Naughten: Deputy Ó Cuív raises an important point but there are many implications in what he is talking about and it may be something on which the committee may wish to work with the Department to produce something specifically to look at that. I know that the statistics would be available to the Department. I am not sure if it would come into the performance indicator report but it is a...

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

Denis Naughten: We might return to this in private session also. I invite Mr. Egan to speak now, please.