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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I think the objective behind this process is to look at what has already been spent. I understand the point Deputy Ó Cuív is making and I do not disagree with it but it is also important that there be a level of engagement between Parliament and the officials with regard to the money that has already been spent. The Deputy is right. Ministers in particular are focused on what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Jordan and his team for coming in this morning and for his broader engagement with this committee. This will be the last performance report presented to this particular committee. Our successor committee will be dealing with the next. I thank each and every staff member within the Department for that engagement over the last four years of this committee. Every single member of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: The committee will now consider the public service performance report with officials from the Department of Social Protection. From the Department, I welcome: Mr. Niall Egan, assistant secretary general of corporate affairs; Mr. Alan Flynn, principal officer for budget and estimates; Ms Michelle Reilly, principal officer in the Department’s statistics unit; and Mr. Hugh Cronin,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Egan. I am smiling at the last part of his statement. The committee has raised in the past the issue of the performance report not reflecting our needs, even though the purpose of its generation is for parliamentary use. This is a criticism of the Department of public expenditure and reform. We have had this engagement with Mr. Egan previously. I will not go over it again....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: That is a matter for departments in the GAA rather than the referees' committee. It is a budget matter and the committee is looking at that. I apologise for interrupting Mr Egan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: The statistical bell curve would provide that. If that could be provided to the committee, it would be appreciated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: For the three of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: To take up the point that Deputy Ó Cuív is making, at the start of the form there would be two to three sentences explaining what full-time care or full-time attention is. The difficulty is each of the schemes is different and illness benefit is not the one we have the problem with. If you look through the statistics from the Social Welfare Appeals Office, a substantial amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I fully accept that and, in fairness, I have to say on the engagement with the Department's team in relation to data, they have been more than helpful and accommodating to the committee. That is not the point we are making. The point we are trying to make in regard to this performance report and all the time and effort that is going into it is that its specific purpose is to facilitate us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: This is the last public service performance report the Department will present to the committee. There will be a new formulation of the committee by the time it comes back again. I wish to take this opportunity, on behalf of the committee, to thank each and every one of you and the team in the Department for their engagement with this committee over the past four years. I thank you for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current training provided for teachers in disabilities and difference; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the curriculum to include education on disabilities and difference among peers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available to schools to install sensory rooms and purchase sensory equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27467/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure school rules and policies are inclusive of neurodivergent pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27468/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by her Department on assistive technology applications in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a proposal from for a six-year inclusive education strategic plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (26 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the areas in which occupational therapy services have been piloted in schools; whether those pilots have been evaluated; his plans extend the pilot to schools in other areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27464/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 379. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 523 of 20 February 2024, his plans for the future location of the main laboratory for genetic testing in Ireland, which is currently housed at CHI Crumlin; the reason this is not being accommodated in the new children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26794/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Laboratory Facilities (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The difficulty is that it is abundantly clear that genetic and genomic services are a low priority for the HSE when no laboratory capacity was provided for in the new children's hospital. We even have the redevelopment of the Crumlin hospital site as an elective hospital without anybody pointing out that this laboratory service would be forced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Laboratory Facilities (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: I warmly congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment as the deputy leader of the Fianna Fáil Party. I wish him the best of good luck in that new role. Since the start of the year, I have regularly asked the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Health and the HSE about the future location of the genomics laboratory currently based at Crumlin hospital. This question...