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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional administrative burdens to be placed on operators under the new core funding childcare model; the provisions being made to address these additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Qualifications (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 334. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the three-year experience rule to qualify for the graduate premium in view of the fact that such graduates can complete a further two-year education programme and gain employment as a primary school teacher; his views on whether such criteria will further drive the haemorrhage of graduate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the long-term impact of Covid-19 on the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17119/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 402. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic bonus will be paid to healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17244/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: Ireland is setting out a very ambitious set of targets in our carbon budgets for the next 15 years. If we are to achieve such significant reductions, we will need to bring the public along with us on that journey. People cannot be commanded. Effective change means putting the levers of climate action into people’s own hands. That will not be achieved by shoe-horning continental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Dáil has no say in that. The final decision is tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The income limits for social housing have not been reviewed since 2011, while property prices have doubled in the same period. The price of a three-bed, semi-detached house is increasing at €100 per day. This is forcing people to turn down work or face the prospect of homelessness. Last September, the Taoiseach told me in the House that the idea that people not being able to...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to pick up where Deputy Leddin left off. Last December, Dáil Éireann unanimously passed a motion that, among other things, called on the Government to design a strategy in conjunction with the European Commission to fund and construct an Atlantic electricity interconnector that would connect west coast and south-west coast renewable electricity directly to the mainland...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: We usually agree on most things.

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputies on all sides for their contributions and for their support for the principles behind this motion. In particular, I thank Ms Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, who assisted us with the drafting of the motion and the research relating to it. There is something fundamentally wrong in a country that is in the middle of a housing crisis - which has got far worse in recent weeks - and...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: What time did you do it in though?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in finalising the new wind energy guidelines; when the new guidelines will come into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a primary school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18202/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 867. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a serious incident that occurred on the evening of 29 March 2022, when a person under psychiatric care residing in a HSE managed facility (details supplied), tried to force their way into the home of a terrified widow in their 80’s living on their own; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for facilitating me. Focus has rightly been on families struggling with rising energy costs, which are causing serious financial hardship, but these costs are also putting great financial pressure on many businesses with regard to operational costs, transport costs and wage pressures. What active and immediate actions is the Government going to take to ease...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Tánaiste will recall that we had very detailed conversation and debates on these specific issues back in 2017 and 2018. At the time, I pointed out that energy costs have a far higher impact on inflation in Ireland than anywhere else in the EU. This is partly a result of the subsidies to the cost of green electricity, grid connections and back-up supplies provided to existing and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The responsibility lies with the Tánaiste's Department. It was his Department that published the report back in 2018. The reality is that we are subsidising the cost of electricity for a sector that will account for 50% of all demand by 2030. With regard to the public service obligation, PSO, levy, the Government announced earlier this week with some fanfare that, next October, the...