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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include women with gestational diabetes in the long-term illness scheme; the reason there is no provision to cover the costs associated with gestational diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45837/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: I have two brief questions. First, we need to see movement on the concessionary pupils next week. We will all support the Minister in trying to secure the funding to help families who were traditionally able to avail of services. The reason I want to talk to the Minister this morning is in relation to autistic children. As she knows, some children, particularly in the Athlone and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: That is only a repayment after the money is paid. They do not have the money to do this. There is no point telling them they will get a payment next month or the month after. They want it today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: If they do not have the money, they cannot-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will give the Minister the specifics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: I have received apologies from Deputies Charles Flanagan and Claire Kerrane, and Senator Róisín Garvey. I remind members participating remotely that they must do so from within the precincts of Leinster House. I ask members and witnesses to please turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with broadcasting equipment. For members participating remotely, use the raise hand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the witnesses for their comprehensive and well-laid-out opening statement. The first Member who has indicated is the committee Leas-Chathaoirleach, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Cooper made a point about significant events and the culture that provision will create at board level in regard to suspicion and worry. Will he elaborate on how that would impact on the day-to-day operation of the board, coming back to the comment Deputy Ó Cathasaigh made about people being afraid to express a concern at board level because they will feel that all of a sudden,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to turn to a broader issue. I have had plenty of personal experience of dealing with regulators. In general, among regulators in this country there has very much been an ethos of a top-down and directional approach rather than engaging in an advisory approach. This is across the board with regard to regulators in the country. The culture has been very much about compliance with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: We will move on to Mr. Cooper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: Thank you very much, Mr. Cooper. You are correct that it is important that we get a balance here. There has been a handful of bad eggs and a handful of very high profile cases. However, as Ms Myler, pointed out, this legislation has only been implemented for the last eight years. In particular in the charities sector, much of the financial side of it has been in abeyance for the last...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide funding for pilot occupational therapy programmes in schools; if any such initiatives have taken place to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47157/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide pilot occupational therapy programmes in schools; if any such initiatives have taken place to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list to access CAMHS in counties Galway and Roscommon, respectively; the number of children directly engaged with each service; his plans to expand both services; his plans, if any, to address the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47140/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further plans that he has to update the income limits for local authority housing and other housing related supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46929/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: The income limits for social housing have not increased in a decade, while property prices have doubled over the same period, forcing people to turn down work or face the prospect of homelessness. Other families who received the pandemic unemployment payment, despite its temporary nature, have now been forced off the housing list. In a perverse twist, the budget measures announced yesterday...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: Turning to the short-term measure, I welcome the changes that have been announced for counties Galway and Westmeath, but what does the Minister have against people from County Roscommon? Did he have a teacher in school who he did not get on with from County Roscommon? From 1 October, there is going to be €6,000 of a difference in the income thresholds for people living in Baylough in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: As I said, the reality is that the income limits have not changed in 11 years. Property prices have doubled in that period of time. In fact, the price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house is increasing at €100 per day at the moment. We need, even in the short term, some discretion in situations where people get a temporary increase in income. There should be some flexibility so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put measures in place to support the refurbishment of vacant property in rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46926/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Denis Naughten: For a number of years, I was a lone voice in this House in highlighting the need to reopen vacant homes. I acknowledge the steps the Minister has taken in introducing a refurbishment grant for vacant properties in our towns, villages and rural areas. However, the Department was slow to issue guidance to local authorities, although it eventually did come. We now need to actively encourage...