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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Eighteen years ago last April, I had a meeting with the Taoiseach, then Minister for Health and Children, and Deirdre Gillane, along with Margaret Best, with regard to a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme. The Government has decided to introduce indemnity for the five vaccine companies that are coming forward with a Covid-19 vaccine. I ask the Taoiseach when we will see a no-fault...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of properties in each town, village and rural area within each local authority area approved under the repair and lease scheme and the buy and renew scheme since inception to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42039/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the witnesses for their evidence and the Chair for facilitating me. I have some questions that are probably more for Mr. Smyth and Mr. Noble. The ombudsman's report is out of date because when it was published, the HSE had admitted that 554 health and social care professionals, comprising various therapists so vital for children's development, including physiotherapists,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Can I briefly seek clarification on that? In evidence given to the Joint Committee on Health by the HSE they categorically stated that once those therapy staff were relieved from contact tracing and swabbing they would go back into the front-line services. Are the witnesses saying that has not in fact happened and they have not gone back into the front-line services, as the HSE had stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: When they have gone back, they have gone back to assessments rather than front-line treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: No. On that issue, this is a further aspect that really needs to be addressed now. HSE representatives who appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health stated categorically that staff would be put back into front-line services to deal with the backlogs that had been created and now we find out from evidence given before this committee today that this blatantly is not happening....

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mental Health Reform and Dr. Philip Hyland of Maynooth University for their assistance in drafting the motion. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will want to join me in thanking the mental health staff who are working in hugely trying circumstances in our services across the country, and particularly in our acute services. I know this issue is close to the heart of Leas-Cheann Comhairle, as...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. At the outset, I wish to ask the Minister and her Department what they have got against the fourth child in working families. I put this point to the Minister's officials when I spoke to them earlier in the week. Is it the case that when the Minister was in the schoolyard years ago, a fourth child pulled her pigtail or something? ...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I addressed this issue on Second Stage. Will the Minister clarify the position on expenses? I am aware that she intends to bring forward a statutory instrument to deal with expenses that would be taken into account when coming up with the income calculation for musicians. Can she give an indication of what type of expenses we are talking about? When will that statutory instrument be laid...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I raised a very specific concern on Second Stage regarding section 12 in the context of the working family payment and the discrimination against families with four or more children. They are the only children who are not been recognised within any increase in payments in this Bill. It is an overall cost to the Exchequer of €2.6 million out of a budget of €25 billion . That...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Four.

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her clarification on the social protection calculation in terms of the total contributions. Now, can we get back to the meat of the issue? The fundamental problem I have with these provisions is that the affected children are the only children whose parents are in receipt of a social welfare payment who will get no increase next year. Bizarrely, parents in...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: As I stated, this is the third budget in which this has happened. The Minister is saying the qualified child allowance is paid on top of the working family payment. If that is the case, I will reluctantly concede on this occasion but I do not want to see this happening again, for a fourth time. We cannot have the affected families singled out for special treatment. It is not right.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: The issue I am going to raise will not come as a surprise to the Minister because I am sure it was provided in his briefing note. I gave ample notice this time last year that I would revisit this issue this year if nothing had been done about it. What have South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel, Roscommon County Hospital, Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, St....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will review the current funding programme on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the current national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 24 November 2020, the reason there are no intervention programmes for females; her views on whether the failure to provide such programmes for women in need of the service is discriminatory in view of the fact that it is nearly impossible to access such supports elsewhere; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I ask members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones, please, as they interfere with the recording equipment. I also remind members to sanitise their desk areas and seats when leaving the committee room. We turn now to the main item on our agenda which is the consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic supports for the islands and rural communities. In this regard, I welcome the officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Parnell. I acknowledge that he is prepared to address the queries of members on the Leader programme later. We will come to it towards the end. I thank him for accommodating us in that regard. I will have to leave this meeting early. Deputy Carey will take over. I also have to be in the convention centre. Unlike our Lord, I cannot be in two places at once. We will start...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to minimise the liability to the State under the proposed indemnity for Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42240/20]