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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1028. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for their surgery; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14755/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (22 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1077. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 372 of 27 January 2022, if he will provide an update on the status of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14106/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The childcare sector, like every other sector, is looking at increasing costs right across the board. The cap that is in place for some of them is going to be inoperable because of the dramatic rise in costs. The Minister needs to look at that issue specifically. He also needs to look at the broader issue of affordability. Even in a county like my own, a rural county constituency of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to use my 30 seconds to recognise the passing of the late ambassador, Jim Kelly, who acted on behalf of the State and our people in an exemplary manner during a career that straddled both sides of the Atlantic in the EU and UN, providing him with a unique perspective. He acted as a role model not only for our own missions but many other missions also. I extend my condolences to his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: It is estimated that every parish in Ireland has an average 20 undocumented Irish citizens in the US. In reality there are far more from every parish along the western seaboard and in the west of Ireland. We have a unique opportunity with President Biden and his cabinet, which has more members from the west of Ireland than the Irish Cabinet. We need to use these connections. Many Irish...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Minister is correct. It is not just about focusing on the executive branch of government in the United States. The House of Representatives and the Senate are very important in this. The previous Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, appointed the former Deputy John Deasy as a special envoy to the US Congress to work on the issue of the undocumented. He worked very closely with the Minister....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: Inflation makes everyone poorer, particularly those on fixed incomes. In Ireland, energy costs have a far greater impact on inflation than in anywhere else in the EU. I want to put three practical suggestions to the Minister. Our electricity prices are among the most expensive in Europe, with Irish families paying, on average, €180 extra for electricity annually. This is partly as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: There are reports that the Government is considering a swing mechanism on fossil fuel taxes to address-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: -----oil-price volatility, but this seems to have been shelved. Why is that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The point I am making on data centres is that families that are struggling to pay electricity bills should not be subsidising the cost of electricity going into the centres. It is immoral and needs to be stopped. May I make a final suggestion to Deputy Donohoe in his role as Minister for Finance and chairman of ECOFIN. We need to see, across the EU, a review of the commodity-trading...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: This is Ireland’s first Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Its purpose is to celebrate and raise awareness of the different ways those who are neurodiverse experience and interact with the world around them. Neurodiverse conditions include autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, to name just a few. With the growing waiting list to access...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria that will be applied by the decision support service in establishing a panel of decision-making representatives; if this will be in practice confined to the legal profession; if not, if other persons will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government’s position on the proposed TRIPS waiver on mRNA Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16951/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to provide long Covid services across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16430/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: Based on research that I commissioned from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, we have somewhere between 145,000 and 300,000 cases of long Covid in Ireland, with a surge of these cases presenting to our already overwhelmed health service as a result of the spread of the Omicron variant late last year. I am concerned that our health service is sleepwalking into a potential avalanche...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome that these post-acute and long Covid clinics are being established, but we have been a long time waiting for that. I was promised last September that they would be put in place. We are being told that, until they are put in place at hospital level, there will not be a network back to the GPs. The Minister has provided advice this morning that people experiencing long Covid...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that we are experiencing an avalanche of these cases. Somewhere between one in ten and one in five people who have Covid end up with long Covid. They are presenting at GPs' surgeries at the moment but there is no referral pathway in place for the majority of them. We are looking at a minimum of 145,000 people added on top of the 1,610 people already within hospitals...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a State-owned and State-controlled beef blockchain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16263/22]