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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: That concludes consideration of the Supplementary Estimate: Vote 42 - Community and Rural Development. In accordance to Standing Order 101, a message to that effect will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil. I thank the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and their officials for their assistance to the committee today.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to the Dáil (23 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 42 – Community and Rural Development.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop a level 1 and level 2 learning programme for senior cycle students; when such a programme is expected to be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in CHO 2 which have ceased providing medical card services to persons with disabilities in the past two years; the medical card dental services currently available to adult persons with disabilities; the provision in place for those whose local dentist withdraws from the provision of medical card services; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (7 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the number of dentists leaving the dental treatment services scheme, DTSS; the services that are available to patients who cannot find a local dentist to avail of DTSS services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61079/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance when a review of the primary medical certificate scheme will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to include carer’s benefit in the long-term payments included in bilateral social security agreements with certain countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 678. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60851/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Vacant Properties (8 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of an existing derelict structure that must be retained in order to avail of the vacant house grant; if an entire building can be demolished and rebuilt on the existing footprint and become eligible for the grant if a professional report indicates that the building is unsafe or unfit to be retained; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to establish a neuro-rehabilitation community team in CHO 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61419/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 310. To ask the Minister for Health when a service for a child will be reinstated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 311. To ask the Minister for Health when a revised OT plan will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61424/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the work that his Department is undertaking to fully utilise broadband connectivity in increasing sustainable employment given that Ireland is set to become one of the most connected countries in Europe for fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58143/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Thanks to the Covid pandemic, there is now a realisation that delivering broadband to every home in Ireland has the potential to transform our economy, nowhere more than in rural Ireland. We have witnessed a spike in local house prices as tech jobs have relocated from the Dublin docks to rural townlands, but this happened by default, not design. It is now time to act strategically to bring...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The reality is that the State is investing significantly in building communications infrastructure right across this country. By the middle of next year, 58% of households in Ireland will have access to a pure fibre connection but the difficulty is that we now need to exploit the investment to bring high-value jobs into every single community....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: We can play around with words all we like. While 50% of the jobs are outside Dublin, there are very few of them outside the cities. If we are going to get a proper regional spread, it must be outside centres such as Galway The Minister of State is aware that in our region this is where all the jobs are going currently. We spent a huge amount of public money on broadband infrastructure....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to support job creation in regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58142/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Government has set out a target of having 50% of jobs outside Dublin. While it is achieving that, the difficulty is that the vast majority of jobs are still located in cities and that the provincial towns are losing out, in particular on foreign direct investment. What are we going to do to address that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: In Project Ireland 2040, we set out a hub and spoke strategy. Athlone was one of the towns designated for growth to become a potential new city and to help attract IDA Ireland and foreign direct investment, FDI, jobs into the region. That is happening successfully in Athlone, which is fast becoming the silicon heartland. It now has more tech jobs per capitathan anywhere in northern Europe....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I am glad the Minister of State mentioned that because as I have said to the Tánaiste over the past two years, 15 minutes up the road from Athlone is the town of Ballinasloe. As we know there is a limited ability to expand or bring a large investment into Athlone either on the Roscommon side or the Westmeath side because the industrial lands are not there. There is a 50-acre land bank...