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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce an income disregard for someone in receipt of a means tested social welfare payment where they rent out a vacant room in their home, similar to the rent-a-room scheme operated by the Revenue Commissioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51012/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce an income disregard provision for persons with a disability in receipt of a welfare allowance payment where they are medically certified as being unable to reside alone in order that they can rent out a room to a non-connected person, without it impacting on their payment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the special Leave with pay under Covid-19 for those healthcare workers with long-Covid is only available to those who contracted the virus at least 84 days prior to 7 February 2022; if he will review this threshold date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 9 September 2022, if he has received the final report of the independent analysis of the warmth and wellbeing scheme carried out by the London School of Tropical Medicine; if he will publish the report in advance of World COPD day on 16 November 2022 in light of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in view of the recognition of long Covid as an occupational disease for healthcare workers by the EU Commission, and the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work, if she will confirm her intention to include it as a prescribed disease or illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 674. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recognition of long Covid by the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work as an occupational disease for healthcare workers, if he will justify the reason he has set a date of 84 days prior to 7 February 2022 as the threshold of special leave with pay for those with long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51103/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for the payment of completed applications under the EU cross-Border Directive; the date when current applications being processed were received; the present number of staff processing such claims; the number of claims to date in 2022; the corresponding figures for 2021;; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 812. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 11 May 2022, if he will outline the steps that have been taken to date by the HSE to capture the scale of the incidence of long Covid; if he will outline the demand and activity levels at each post covid and long covid clinic; the corresponding waiting list at each clinic; the number of patients attending each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the total drawdown of funding to date in 2022 for the long and post-Covid interim model of care; the estimated drawdown by year end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51848/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 814. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 654 of 31 May, 2022, the funding provided by his Department or agencies under the remit of his Department towards research into treatments for long Covid; if he will list the publications to date on foot of the research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 815. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 31 March 2022, the status of plans to introduce a no-fault vaccination compensation scheme for severe adverse reactions to State-promoted vaccination programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51850/22]

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including “any” in line 4 down to and including “section” in line 6 and substitute “the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside”. Before the clock starts, I wish to recognise retired Garda Sergeant John Hynes and his wife, Catherine,...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I am disappointed with the Minister's response regarding an issue which I believe is fundamental to this Bill. The Minister is looking at this issue from a particular perspective, but if we turn it on its head and look at it from the opposite perspective, rather than looking at this provision and how it facilitates sex offenders, it will be seen it is not limiting them to the local Garda...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Minister's Department highlighted problems with this legislation 13 years ago. It has taken us this long to get this far. Is the Minister honestly telling me we are going to see amending legislation when there is a problem with what we are enacting now? We will not. The Minister is telling us the Garda is saying it is happy with what is in this Bill. I have been at this for 13 years...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, lines 16 and 17, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, lines 26 and 27, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, line 32, to delete "to" and substitute "and in the presence of".

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for taking on board amendment No. 7. This is very welcome legislation. It will ensure for the first time ever we will have an effective sex offenders register in this country. To have an effective sex offenders register, the member of the force who will be monitoring a sex offender needs to be able to make contact with and interview him or her, take his or her...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Will the Minister clarify that she is satisfied the other provisions already in legislation will ensure that reciprocal arrangement will be in place within the common travel area and outside that more generally? I welcome the provision in amendment No. 14 to allow a photograph of a convicted sex offender to be provided to a third party where it is necessary to identify that offender to...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to come back on amendment No. 20. The Minister said it is important that the information is shared. I acknowledge the Bill provides a legal mechanism for the Garda to share information for the first time, something which was not available up to now, and expose members of the force that provided very relevant and valid information. My problem is that the Minister believes it is...