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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to increase the volume of generic medicines used to fulfil prescriptions to achieve the European Union average of 70%; the estimated savings to the annual drug bill as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35122/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: This morning's meeting has been convened on foot of a recent request from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in particular from its chairman, Deputy Jackie Cahill, to discuss issues around our recent hearings on the rural social scheme, the Tús initiative administered by the Department of Social Protection and related issues applying to carers in Ireland,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: Does Ms Hurley wish to start off by addressing some of those points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputy Kerrane and I apologise to her in the context of addressing her earlier. I was watching the Dáil on the monitor and I got distracted. I call Ms Hurley to address Deputy Kerrane’s questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: Colleagues have raised issues about CE, Tús and RSS and their operation. I will come back to the issue of carer's allowance, in the context of national Carers Week and the request that we received from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the need for flexibility for farm participants in receipt of the allowance. Deputy Ó Cuív put it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Hession. I am sure this is an issue the committee will revisit. Mr. Hession raised an issue I am going to raise with Ms Hurley. Members may correct me but as far as I can recall, the CE supervisors, in their evidence to the committee, made a point in respect to training and the training allowance that participants could go on a training course that would assist with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: We will send Ms Hurley the transcript of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: Ultimately, the person was refused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: That is good. I thank Mr. Kieran very much. I thank the officials for attending and for their constructive and positive engagement with the committee. We will shortly give further consideration to this matter and it is our intention to present a report on our deliberations to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and to Dáil Éireann thereafter, on the wider matters within our work...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if special leave with pay will continue from 1 July 2022 for cases of long Covid-19 beyond the period of isolation; the number of front-line workers who have availed of this payment for an extended period of 12 weeks or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36576/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons in receipt of special leave with pay on 30 June 2022; the number in receipt of this payment for two weeks or more on 30 June 2022; the number in receipt of this payment for 12 weeks or more on 30 June 2022; the additional supports being put in place for staff who contracted Covid-19 in their employment and who are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements which the National Monuments Service has had with Roscommon County Council regarding the closure of Cloonshanville cemetery, County Roscommon due to the instability of the Abbey bell tower; the steps that are being taken to reopen the cemetery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36375/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the present length of time to process a foreign births registration; when an application of a person (details supplied) received 28 months ago will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36645/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 285. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 312. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 3 February 2022, if he will revise the public health advice given that the incidence of long-Covid in children is rare and mainly of short duration in view of the systematic review and meta-analyses of long-Covid in children published on 23 June 2022; if as a result he will expedite the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE hospital kitchen staff have not received the pandemic bonus payment yet clerical staff with no patient contact have received the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36584/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mild and moderate classes sanctioned by her Department at primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36069/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mild and moderate classes sanctioned by her Department at post-primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36070/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism classes sanctioned by her Department at primary level in each of the past three years and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36071/22]