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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Hession might respond and wrap up also as we are close to our time limit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Hession, Mr. Hand and Mr. Henry for their engagement with the committee and for answering the questions and the issues raised by the members. I am sure we will be back in touch with them again on this. Ultimately, we are all at one on where we need to get to and it is a matter of trying to bed down the huge transition and change that has taken place, particularly with the staff...

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: 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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: We have plenty of very successful hubs in Roscommon.

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?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to support existing levels of employment in regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that he has to extend financial supports to businesses involved in import substitution from outside the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58144/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that she has to reintroduce the higher diploma in education, shorten the two-year professional master of education to a one-year course, or both; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the reduction in the student contribution of €1,000 to students who have changed college course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61663/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 533. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation dealing with international surrogacy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61662/22]

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]