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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 35: In page 30, after line 28, to insert the following: “29.The Minister shall, within 90 days of the passing of this Act, make regulations under section 60 of the Act of 2018 making it an offence to erase information regarding convictions for sexual offences as set out in section 3 of the Principal Act.”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 36: In page 30, after line 28, to insert the following: “29.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on how registered sex offenders are able to change their name or other aspects of their identity without the knowledge of the Garda Síochána with the intention of subverting the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The first problem is that the sex offenders register we have at the moment is a joke. It is a register in name only. Even though we have such a lax sex offenders register in this country, the Garda comes across at least one person every week who is in breach of it. The Garda usually comes across them for other offences and as a result of that, the offender is charged for the breach of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I accept that. I am suggesting that legal provision should be put in place so the Courts Service must check if someone is on the sex offenders register and then must inform the Garda that individual A has changed his or her name to individual B. There would be an obligation on the Courts Service to check if an individual is on the register and if so, the local Garda station must then be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will finish on this point. With all due respect to the Minister, it is not good enough for her to say to me we can come back and amend this legislation. A report was completed in 2009 because this legislation was inadequate at that stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: It has taken us this long to amend that legislation and it will take us much longer to amend it again. This practice is happening. It is happening across the Irish Sea as we speak. The authorities there are trying to close off this abuse of the loophole in the legislation. My point is that as we are dealing with this legislation, now is the time to deal with this anomaly and to address it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 278. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of Parkinson's disease nurse specialist in University Hospital Galway will be advertised; the interim measures that will be put in place prior to the filling of this post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 5 April 2022, if her Department has signed off on changes to the primary school building project; when it is expected that the assessment will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20285/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to resolve the issue of school secretaries and caretakers being forced to sign for social welfare payments during school holidays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1335. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the difficulties in recruiting paediatric occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1447. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses who worked as vaccinators and as Covid swabbers will be eligible for the pandemic front-line health workers' bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that medical cards do not issue automatically to a child in cases in which the domiciliary care allowance is granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1486. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 550 of 12 October 2021 and 1077 of 22 March 2022, the reason that the waiting list has increased by over two years between October 2021 and April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1487. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for respiratory patients awaiting an appointment at the chest clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of patients currently on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the community healthcare west initiative of a youth advisory panel to each CHO nationwide to explore the risk and protective factors for youth mental health and suicidality of teenagers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (4 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the Coroners Act 1962; the specific elements she intends to revise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (4 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure medical card patients in County Roscommon can gain access to dental treatment; the options available to medical card patients in cases in which dentists in a county are not taking on such patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their ANC payment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22207/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: At a time when "air quality" is the buzzword being used by the Government, why are we seeing a huge increase in the waiting times for respiratory outpatient appointments? Since last October, the waiting time for a respiratory appointment at University Hospital Galway has increased from 18 months to a whopping 42 months. Nationally, there are now 18,632 people waiting for a respiratory...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Programmes (5 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Tellus airborne geophysical survey for 2022 will commence; the programme and areas of the country to be covered; if he will ensure that adequate public notice is provided in the communities concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22502/22]