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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Walks Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 1490. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made on an application by a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21875/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Offices (8 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 1496. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22476/20]

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I congratulate the new Aire Stáit, my county colleague, Deputy Frank Feighan, on his appointment and I wish him the very best of luck in his new role. The wording of the statutory instrument before us is, at best, ham-fisted in the approach that has been taken with it. The Government should withdraw it forthwith, redraft it and bring it back before the House because it is important...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (9 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he plans to take to improve the interface between the wider research community and the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22385/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Civil Service (9 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will establish a science and technology policy fellowship within the Civil Service to provide opportunities to scientists and engineers to learn first-hand policymaking and contribute their knowledge and analytical skills in policy development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22384/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the monitoring of sex offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23115/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: In 2009, the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform announced that new statutory powers were to be given to An Garda Síochána to more effectively and efficiently monitor released sex offenders. Due to the lack of progress, in 2012 I published the Child Sex Offenders (Information and Monitoring) Bill 2012 to close the gaping loopholes in the monitoring of high-risk sex...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister. I am glad she mentioned the current law because a convicted sex offender released from Arbour Hill Prison this morning, can toddle down to O'Connell Street and put a letter in the post addressed to the Superintendent's office, An Garda Síochána, Bandon Garda station, Bandon, County Cork informing them they are going to reside at 55, Atlantic View, Malin Head,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that the balance is entirely in the hands of the perpetrator at present. It is important to note that only one in ten sexual offences is reported and approximately one in 20 results in a conviction. Half of these convictions involve children. Even an effectively operating sex offender monitoring regime, therefore, will not address the total concerns of parents. However,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Female Genital Mutilation (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to prioritise practical actions to support the elimination of female genital mutilation in view of the enactment of the Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22918/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Female Genital Mutilation (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Female genital mutilation, FGM, is a barbaric practice perpetrated on young girls. While the practice is concentrated in 30 countries in Africa and the Middle East, it is a universal problem which continues to persist among migrant populations living in Ireland. I would like the Minister to update the House on the practical measures being taken to eliminate this practice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Female Genital Mutilation (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Based on UN estimates, two young girls have female genital mutilation performed on them every minute. In a majority of countries, girls are cut before the age of five. This is happening in Ireland and young girls have been taken out of Ireland to have this practice performed on them. It is estimated that 5,790 girls and women living in Ireland have experienced FGM. Some 2,639 girls may be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Female Genital Mutilation (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: We need to send out a clear message that Ireland will not tolerate female genital mutilation under any circumstance, either in this jurisdiction or outside it. The most powerful step the Minister can take is to lead on this issue by bringing her other two Cabinet colleagues together and to sit down around a table and committing as three Ministers that they will drive the agenda forward on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Data (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: On my Question No. 13, I welcome the commitment in the programme for Government to bring in a pathway to long-term residency for undocumented people and their dependants within the next 16 months. I would like to know where are we with that process and what progress is being made.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to date to create new pathways for long-term undocumented persons and their dependants residing here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22920/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the eProbate project to go live in each office; the status of the project; if the Revenue Commissioners have been incorporated and gone live on eProbate; the status of the implementation of each recommendation in the report of the probate services review group; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tag sex offenders following their release from prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22917/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders Treatment Programme (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the monitoring of sex offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to fast-track the delivery of the national broadband plan in line with the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23186/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with not-for-profit education, information technology and credit organisations such as organisations (details supplied) on the roll out of laptops to third-level students prior to the announcing the €15 million for student devices with a view to maximising the number of devices to be made available; and if he...