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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to tackle the rise in illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total spend by the SEAI on the retrofitting and renovation of housing in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; the share of that total spend that is attributable to labour costs; the average spend per unit of housing in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020; the share of that spend that is attributable to labour...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will be retrofitted in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61966/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans to fast-track the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61965/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Negotiations (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions which he has had with the Just Transition Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61967/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend by his Department, by approved housing bodies and by each of the local authorities on the construction of new housing in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the share of that spend that is attributable to labour costs; the average spend per unit of housing in the same period; the share of that spend that is attributable to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend by his Department, by approved housing bodies and by each of the local authorities on the retrofitting and renovation of social housing in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the share of that total spend that is attributable to labour costs; the average spend per unit of housing in each of the years 2018, 2019 and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing projects for which each of the local authorities and approved housing bodies availed of support services on procurement from the Housing Agency projects and procurement department in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61877/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the Housing Agency projects and procurement department approaches advising local authorities and approved housing bodies on questions of labour availability and the associated cost as part of the procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61878/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to amend the minimum qualification required for appointment to the role of special needs assistant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has sought expert opinion on the campaign to change the minimum qualifications required for appointment to the role of special needs assistant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61588/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 572. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61247/21]

Finance Bill 2021: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I refer to an issue raised in the Seanad yesterday regarding the hotels that opened in the latter half of 2019 but prior to 1 November. Hotels that opened on or after 1 November 2019 are allowed to use their pre-pandemic projections for 2021 and 2022 as the base for comparison with their actual turnover in 2021 and 2022 in establishing whether their turnover achieved the 30% reduction. Due...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 7: In page 13, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(c) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on welfare measures which can support land mobility and environmental sustainability.". I flagged this amendment on Second Stage. I am using this as a vehicle to raise the issue....

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her comments. The late Seymour Crawford, her predecessor as Deputy for her local area, is probably looking down on us tonight and would tell her to consider this issue. The particular farmers to whom I refer are not going into these schemes. Many of them want nothing to do with paperwork. Many of them are probably not even getting their area-based payments at all....

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 8: In page 15, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the inclusion of all half-rate carer’s allowance recipients under the fuel allowance scheme.”. This, too, is an issue that I raised on Second Stage. I tabled...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I would rather if the Minister did not, and instead amended the legislation. The reality is a small number of carers will miss out on the fuel allowance for a full 12 months because we will not have the opportunity to look at this again. I submitted this amendment in plenty of time, and I am sure the officials looked at the figures. I stand to be corrected but I suspect we are talking...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 498. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 624 of 5 October 2021, if the vacant occupational therapy roles have now been filled; the number of children currently awaiting occupational therapy appointments in counties Roscommon and Galway; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62431/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: White Papers (16 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 509. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish a White Paper on human genomics; the status of the programme for Government commitment on the establishment of a national genomics medicine network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62473/21]