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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the present length of time to process a foreign births registration; when an application of a person (details supplied) received 28 months ago will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36645/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 285. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 312. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 3 February 2022, if he will revise the public health advice given that the incidence of long-Covid in children is rare and mainly of short duration in view of the systematic review and meta-analyses of long-Covid in children published on 23 June 2022; if as a result he will expedite the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE hospital kitchen staff have not received the pandemic bonus payment yet clerical staff with no patient contact have received the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36584/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: We have received apologies from Deputy Flanagan and Senators Wall, Garvey and Murphy. I ask members to note that, to participate in this meeting remotely, they must do so from within the precincts of the Leinster House complex. I ask members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with broadcasting equipment. I ask members attending the meeting remotely to use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Deputy can go through them and then we will let the Minister of State come in. We can have a further back and forth. There is no difficulty. The Minister of State might bank the questions and then we will come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: Does the Deputy have a bit more to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: That is fine. Perhaps we could break it up and let the Minister of State in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to facilitate discussion on this matter. The whole idea is to try to tease this out. I do not want a complete over-and-back discussion, but I do not want to swamp the Minister of State either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will leave it to the discretion of the Deputy to group some of the points together as best he can. He can then take a break and allow the Minister of State to come in on them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: Yes, I have no problem with that. It is important that all of these questions are asked in order to get some information. We will give Deputy Paul Donnelly a short break to let the Minister of State in, and we can come back to the Deputy afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: I acknowledge that because sometimes legislation comes before the committee that is effectively set in stone. At the end of the day, we all want legislation that stands the test of time. It is important that it is robust because there are weaknesses within the current regulatory system and we all accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: Before the Minister of State comes back on that point, Councillor Laurence Fallon also has raised the issue of door-to-door collections mentioned by Deputy Paul Donnelly in respect of County Roscommon, where we have had a proliferation of them in the past. People have a sticker they circulate through letterboxes with a charity number on it, to give the impression that such organisations are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: Section 39 is the one the Deputy mentioned. It concerned the lack of the commencement of section 39 in the 2009 Act. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Denis Naughten: Yes.