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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Mahon for his very detailed submission, covering a broad range of areas. I wish to raise a couple of brief questions with him. At the outset, he mentioned that people who are long-term unemployed and had left education early, have become isolated and insecure, as well as withdrawn from society as a result. Has Mr. Mahon seen a difference with people prior to the Covid-19...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will take the questions from Deputy Donnelly and then let the witnesses come back in. Has the Deputy finished?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will let the Deputy back in later if he wants. There will be no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: It is important that it is at the right height for hurling as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Senator Wall may come in momentarily. To clarify one issue, that is all well and good for strength and conditioning courses, for which there might be demand, but what happens if someone on a CE scheme has an interest in becoming a blacksmith or an apprentice to a blacksmith? The cost of doing such a course would be multiples of €250. There will not be ten or 20 people in any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Did Mr. Glynn want to come in on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Seeing as Mr. Mahon mentioned African community radio, I note that today is Africa Day. I wish everyone a happy Africa Day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the witnesses. Clearly, the operation and the management of the schemes can be adapted to allow supervisors more time to train and to provide support to participants and to get the skillsets that they themselves need in helping to support participants who are on the schemes. I thank the witnesses for attending and for their constructive and positive engagement with this committee. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: -----look forward to being involved in a repetitive task next Sunday in Pearse Stadium and beating Galway for the third time this year. Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme: SIPTU (25 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Apologies have been received from Deputies Kerrane, Carey and Flanagan. Deputy Flanagan, in his absence, forwarded a submission on our agenda item for today, which has been circulated to members. We might invite him to discuss it further at our next meeting. Before we commence, I remind members participating remotely they must do so from within the precincts of Leinster House. I ask...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Last month was the 20th anniversary of a meeting that the Taoiseach and I attended with Margaret Best and officials from the Department of Health about the State's introduction of a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme. Over the past two decades, while governments have been committed to the introduction of such a scheme in the interests of public health and the individuals concerned, we have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (24 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he has to facilitate farmers trading carbon credits; if he intends to establish a verifiable framework to record and manage net carbon sequestration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to address the incompatibility of CAP agri-environmental schemes with farmers planting forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Household Incomes (24 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken to ensure that Irish beef farmers receive a price commensurate with that paid to their European Union counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26355/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: It is the staff who will tell them in future and we need to attract the staff.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Are we attracting the ones that will do that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 15. 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. [23493/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: By June 2020, 58% of Irish households could access broadband speeds of 1 Gbps and we will have 100% of such coverage in the coming years. There will be 146,000 km of fibre-optic cable, a web of such cable with a geographic spread like none other globally. We must exploit this investment and generate foreign direct investment jobs in every single village in Ireland.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: We have a significant opportunity to attract foreign direct investment and staff into our provincial towns and rural areas. They are nice communities in which to live and work. That is thanks to investment through the urban and rural regeneration funds. We need to market and promote the whole package and not just a select few sites in a select few towns. We need a unique marketing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: As the Tánaiste knows, we discussed the idea of the hub-and-spoke strategy as set out in Project Ireland 2040 around the Cabinet table. The Government took the decision the designate Athlone as the new potential city, helping to attract IDA jobs and investment into the region and ensuring that it is now fast becoming the silicon heartlands, with a bigger percentage of the workforce...