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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Payments (28 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: 417. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total funds paid under the rental accommodation scheme in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16338/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Property Registration Authority (28 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: 513. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the imposition of burdens on the land folios, with lands designated as special protection areas or special areas of conservation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16743/15]

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. I welcome the announcement yesterday by the Government of the establishment of a national economic dialogue. It is long overdue. I welcome the fact that there will be stakeholder consultation but, sadly, this House, Dáil Éireann, the national Parliament, is being sidelined. Fine Gael's 2010 document, Reinventing Government,...

Other Questions: Turf Cutting Restrictions (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: They might even lend a hand.

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: 9. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the imposition of burdens on the land folios with lands designated as special protection areas or special areas of conservation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16749/15]

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: Legislation enacted in 2011 places a charge on the deeds of property designated as special areas of conservation. One seventh of the area of the country was made subject to these burdens through sleight of hand in a statutory instrument. Why was this introduced? The Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is beginning to act like the banks except that agreements are entered into...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: The Minister has authority under law to introduce burdens with the stroke of a pen. If somebody goes to the bank tomorrow morning to get a loan, the bank will take into account the fact that the lands have been designated and will reduce its valuation of the land accordingly. A burden is placed on the land in practical terms. Given that she has put this responsibility on land owners, why...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: The reality is that the burden is already on those properties. They have been devalued and the Department is not prepared to offer compensation. The Minister justifies this policy by claiming that farmers can avail of the GLAS scheme as a form of compensation. I know of one farmer in County Roscommon who has a turlough on his land which has been designated as a special protection area. If...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: Will the Minister answer any of the questions I asked? Why was a statutory instrument introduced in 2011 to legally place a burden on one seventh of the land area of this State? When one takes into account the area of land that is already in public ownership, this provision in practice will mean taking possession of lands because farmers will be unable to carry out work without written...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: The Minister-----

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: She has already listed the burdens.

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Inquiries (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: As a consequence of suspected cases of misdiagnosis in seven hospitals, with questions raised over the skills of three locum doctors, thousands of scans have had to be reviewed and hundreds of patients recalled. This news comes some years after the issue of delayed X-ray diagnoses at Tallaght hospital and similar issues at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda emerged. The HSE assured us...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Inquiries (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: The most worrying aspect of the Minister's response is that there are a number of other hospitals involved. Can he indicate in how many more hospitals these locum consultants worked? How many more patients will have to worry until they get clarification in this regard? The reason this issue arises is because we are so reliant on locum consultants. As the Minister will know, consultant...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Inquiries (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: Second, why are we not using the key quality indicators that were set out in the Royal College of Surgeons standards in 2010 which would have identified this problem at a much earlier stage?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options (30 Apr 2015)

Denis Naughten: 18. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of bogs where full relocation has been completed in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16750/15]

Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (6 May 2015)

Denis Naughten: 6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that children in receipt of child benefit meet the statutory requirement of attending school up to 16 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17237/15]

Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (6 May 2015)

Denis Naughten: Every year the Department of Social Protection issues more than 600,000 letter to parents asking them to verify whether their children are in this country. One of the conditions of the child benefit scheme is that children up to the age of 16 must receive an appropriate education. However, there is no link-up in this regard between the Department of Social Protection and the education...

Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (6 May 2015)

Denis Naughten: One in ten primary school children and one in six secondary school children miss more than 20 days per year in school, which equates to one eighth of the secondary school year. Almost 1,500 children left primary school last year and never turned up in secondary school. We are storing up a very serious social problem for the future. The Department of Social Protection will have to foot the...

Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (6 May 2015)

Denis Naughten: We have heard from Ministers of this Government on numerous occasions that an issue is not the responsibility of one Department but rather that of another Department. The Tánaiste is the deputy leader of this Government and she is washing her hands of this issue. All I ask is that she link up the two IT systems so that where a child has, without good reason, missed school for 20 days,...

Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (6 May 2015)

Denis Naughten: I am talking about threatening to remove it.