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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (21 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if the geographic location of an applicant is considered as a criteria for the assessment of a discretionary medical card; if he will provide the detail of such weighting, if any, for each designaterd geographic area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49918/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 214. To ask the Minister for Health when the national immunisation advisory committee will be making a decision regarding immunisation against meningitis B; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49919/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to address the committee, of which I am not a member. I have spoken to a number of farmers who are owed money, some of the mart managers, some of the people persent and Mr. Paulo Garavelli. I have also raised the issue in the House, with the bank and the Italian authorities. There is no doubt this is a complex issue. It is not simple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: I want to pick up on the comment made by Mr. Ray Doyle on labelling. I know that other speakers have also raised the matter but I want to specifically pick up on his comment about nomad cattle. He is correct that labelling is a significant part of the problem. Can he explain how the EU allows the issue of nomad cattle to arise, cattle that are not Irish or British, yet allows chicken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: From Wicklow.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their payment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50712/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Redeployment (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received a request from a deputation on the downgrade of his offices in Roscommon town; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that other State bodies are now reviewing and reversing the policy of complete centralisation of administrative functions; if he will review the decision to downgrade the Roscommon office in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: No-fault Compensation Scheme (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 641. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 26 September 2013 when he expects a decision will be made on the establishment of a no-fault compensation scheme; the consideration currently being given to the establishment of such a scheme; if he will provide an update on those considerations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50656/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: The Minister will recall that when we spoke about this provision on budget night, I told him he would be revisiting it because it was drafted with errors. I note he has redrafted it by including this amendment which I agree is welcome. However, the amendment to the budget day proposal is a retrograde step because, bizarrely, the proposal put forward on budget day, as drafted, would actually...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: What the Minister is doing here is going to undermine the objective - with which many of us agree - of introducing universal health insurance. He needs to reconsider this. I want to make two brief points. The first is that taxation and tax relief should be about behavioural change but section 8 undermines that. Everyone who knows about the health insurance system would argue that we...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: Before the Chairman moves on to the next section, I want to indicate an amendment I will table for Report Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: I want to tell the Chairman what the amendment will be. Customers cannot claim-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: Chairman, in order for me to table an amendment on Report Stage, I must indicate the content of it. It is just one sentence.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: Customers at present cannot claim a refund on payment protection insurance prior to July 2007 and I will be bringing forward on amendment on Report Stage on that.

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this legislation. I wish the Minister of State the best of luck with steering it through the House. This is his maiden legislation as an Aire Stáit and I am sure that it is the first of many Bills that he will handle. We all need to remember our former colleague in the House, Shane McEntee, particularly at this time of the year. Our thoughts...

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: Yes. There are a few inspectors I would like to see carrying out that inspection regime. We have a significant problem concerning our bee population, while there is a significant landbank. Therefore, the two sectors could dovetail with Coillte to establish beehives. I am not saying that in jest because this major issue needs to be addressed. Coillte could carry the can in that regard and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Protection (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date on protecting employment at Covidien and Alkermes, Athlone, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50402/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to secure jobs at the MBNA site in Carrick- on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50401/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: On a related issue, another set of payments has not been included in the legislation. I refer to compensation payments to children aged under 18 years who have reached the age of consent, which have been made by the Health Service Executive under the Child Care Act 1991 on the basis of a failure to act on the part of the HSE. I ask that provision be made on Report Stage to address...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Denis Naughten: I would appreciate it if the matter were examined prior to Report Stage.