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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The first problem is that the sex offenders register we have at the moment is a joke. It is a register in name only. Even though we have such a lax sex offenders register in this country, the Garda comes across at least one person every week who is in breach of it. The Garda usually comes across them for other offences and as a result of that, the offender is charged for the breach of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I accept that. I am suggesting that legal provision should be put in place so the Courts Service must check if someone is on the sex offenders register and then must inform the Garda that individual A has changed his or her name to individual B. There would be an obligation on the Courts Service to check if an individual is on the register and if so, the local Garda station must then be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will finish on this point. With all due respect to the Minister, it is not good enough for her to say to me we can come back and amend this legislation. A report was completed in 2009 because this legislation was inadequate at that stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: It has taken us this long to amend that legislation and it will take us much longer to amend it again. This practice is happening. It is happening across the Irish Sea as we speak. The authorities there are trying to close off this abuse of the loophole in the legislation. My point is that as we are dealing with this legislation, now is the time to deal with this anomaly and to address it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 5 April 2022, if her Department has signed off on changes to the primary school building project; when it is expected that the assessment will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20285/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to resolve the issue of school secretaries and caretakers being forced to sign for social welfare payments during school holidays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20485/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1335. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the difficulties in recruiting paediatric occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1447. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses who worked as vaccinators and as Covid swabbers will be eligible for the pandemic front-line health workers' bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that medical cards do not issue automatically to a child in cases in which the domiciliary care allowance is granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1486. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 550 of 12 October 2021 and 1077 of 22 March 2022, the reason that the waiting list has increased by over two years between October 2021 and April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1487. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for respiratory patients awaiting an appointment at the chest clinic in University Hospital Galway; the number of patients currently on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the community healthcare west initiative of a youth advisory panel to each CHO nationwide to explore the risk and protective factors for youth mental health and suicidality of teenagers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19997/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for facilitating me. Focus has rightly been on families struggling with rising energy costs, which are causing serious financial hardship, but these costs are also putting great financial pressure on many businesses with regard to operational costs, transport costs and wage pressures. What active and immediate actions is the Government going to take to ease...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Tánaiste will recall that we had very detailed conversation and debates on these specific issues back in 2017 and 2018. At the time, I pointed out that energy costs have a far higher impact on inflation in Ireland than anywhere else in the EU. This is partly a result of the subsidies to the cost of green electricity, grid connections and back-up supplies provided to existing and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The responsibility lies with the Tánaiste's Department. It was his Department that published the report back in 2018. The reality is that we are subsidising the cost of electricity for a sector that will account for 50% of all demand by 2030. With regard to the public service obligation, PSO, levy, the Government announced earlier this week with some fanfare that, next October, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and responsibilities; the posts and responsibilities that are presently vacant; the corresponding figures on 23 June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (7 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and responsibilities; the posts and responsibilities that are presently vacant; the corresponding figures on 23 June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19032/22]