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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The €25,000 threshold has been in place for approximately a decade. As the Minister will be aware, the thresholds are reviewed every two years at EU level and they have increased incrementally. The EU thresholds were last increased at the end of 2018, yet the thresholds here remain stagnant. We need to encourage as many local businesses as possible to avail of public contracts. One...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: On the Minister's final point, we need to examine the whole-of-life impact rather than just ticking a green box. Unfortunately, that is what is happening, and we have previously had a discussion on the matter. While the OGP is great from the perspective of centralising policy on the matter, it is not responsible for procurement but only for the setting down of the rules in that regard....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The winter initiative is being launched today but there is a specific problem in Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe. Two thirds of the public health nurse posts in the community are vacant. Oncology and chemotherapy patients in the hospital cannot be discharged because of the embargo and the shortage of public health nurses. Will the Minister intervene directly to address this issue? There...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if green procurement will be incorporated into the public procurement code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46499/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to support the production of domestic biomass to supply Lanesboro and Shannonbridge power stations in advance of the decision by the ESB not to proceed with planning for both plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46928/19]

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 6: In page 20, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Tax credit claim 17. A tax credit can be claimed where a person works remotely.”. I tabled this amendment, the subject of which is topical today as it is the day we signed the contract for the national broadband plan, to try to incentivise and encourage people to work remotely. There...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I listened to what the Minister said. As he knows, the Government announced earlier today that we will be creating 300 broadband hotspots across the country. These are locations from which people will be encouraged to work remotely. They are not people's homes. They are for people who do not have access to high-speed broadband at home. In light of the savings as compared with spending on...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I am not asking for a commitment but the Minister's officials can be working on it.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 8: In page 22, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(2) For the purpose of clarity such provisions will also apply to businesses with charitable 2 status providing emergency medical services in the State but registered in the UK, which shall be required to re-register in the State following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: To clarify, Irish Community Rapid Response is registered as a charity in Ireland. That is not the issue. The issue is that it buys a service from Sloane Helicopters, which is based in the United Kingdom. This operates very well and a model has been developed on this basis. After Brexit, however, in order to operate in an EU member state, Sloane Helicopters will have to be registered in an...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The point I am making is that the company will be forced to register here. It will not have a choice. To operate here after the UK exits the European Union it will be forced to do this. This is where the difficulty arises. As a result, we are looking at a charity having an additional financial burden of €2 million a year.

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: That is inflation gone wrong.

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The vital personal assistant service is undermined by the medical model of disability. People must do what they are told, not what they want to do so. We see this in the action taken by the Irish Wheelchair Association to impede the hand-over of the Cuisle respite care service in County Roscommon to another operator. The right to work, have friends and have a choice of leisure activities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to enhance supports for children with a learning disability within the education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47442/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 426, 427 and 428 of 12 November 2019, the month in which the factory concerned breached the excess carcase trimming specification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47745/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person is eligible to apply for the housing aid for older people scheme if they have lifetime right of residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant aid available to support the construction of a wastewater treatment facility for group sewerage schemes; the results of the previous pilot scheme completed on group sewerage schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47621/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide funding in 2020 to Uisce Éireann for the provision of a sewerage system for Ahascragh, County Galway in view of the fact that it is the only midland wastewater treatment facility discharging raw sewerage into a watercourse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47628/19]

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I have three suggestions for the Minister in respect of the issues at accident and emergency departments across the country. First, we need to better utilise our injury units, which can provide for quick diagnosis and discharge back into the community and ensure that people do not have long stays for tests that can be provided there. Currently, people go directly to accident and emergency...