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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: It is important that we take on the Chairman's suggestions. We would welcome feedback on the specific questions. At an EU level, Ireland works with other EU statistics bodies to make sure the questions are as accessible and understandable as possible. Work is taking place at EU level, but that is not to say we should not constantly tweak our questions to make sure people can-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: There will be a trial for the 2027 census in September. That could be an opportunity to get feedback on the types of questions asked. We do not want somebody sitting at home who needs an explanation as to what a question means; it needs to be very understandable. That is always the thinking when asking the question. It needs to be understandable to everybody at home so that they do not...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: There will be a report on that in the next month. It is done every two years now. A report will come out in the next month on gender.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: It is every two years now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: We can also look at how people's tastes have changed and what they are now buying. Online and broadband services are more popular now. Disposable cameras are no longer bought as they were in previous years. It is to see how people's tastes-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Much of that renewal plan relates to the digitalisation of services. The 2027 census will be partially online. People will have the option of going online and filling it out. They will have the paper form but they will also have the option of filling it out online. We also did the employee engagement survey.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: As I was saying to Deputy Durkan, it mainly relates to the CSO not just providing statistics and data; it is about giving insights on that data. That allows us to inform Departments in areas such as agriculture and transport that we are putting the right services into the right area. It deals with areas like people's transport movements, where they are living, where we need housing and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Digitally.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Good man.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I wish to reassure the Chairman. I completely agree. The CSO is not planning on having a digital-only census. In 2027, it is providing the option for people to go online if they so wish. I fully agree with the Chairman that there are people who will continue to want that paper census form. The Central Statistics Office employs field staff who go out around the country and help people if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland Framework (Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025). It was developed in recognition of the growing need for a coordinated policy response to the increasing problem of obesity in Ireland and the increasing burden...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The free contraception scheme for women aged 17 -25, ordinarily resident in Ireland, was launched on 14th September, 2022. Its remit has been expanded gradually to include women aged from 17 to 31 inclusive, from January 1st, 2024. Approximately €43.9m has been allocated to support the scheme in 2024 and approximately 2,400 GPs, primary care, family planning and student health centres...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Yes, it is.

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023 be deemed to be read a second time this day nine months to allow for the issues contained in the Bill to be further examined in consultation with the Deputies and on the basis that the Government's Mental Health Bill,...

Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That the Orders of Reference of the Special Committee on Assisted Dying, contained within the Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform entitled "Orders of Reference for Special Committee on Assisted Dying", as agreed by Order of the Dáil of 24th January, 2023, be amended in paragraph (4), by the deletion of "within nine months of the first public meeting...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023: Motion (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 108(2), and for the purposes of the proceedings on the Planning and Development Bill 2023 only, it shall be permissible to proceed, before the eight minutes have elapsed from the demanding of the division, to take a division in the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage without a member of the Select...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: -Motion reAmendment of Orders of Reference of the Committee on Assisted Dying (without debate) -Motion re Approval of Appointment of a Member ofthe Legal Services Regulatory Authority (without debate) -Motion re Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023 — Taking of divisions in Committee -Statements on Recent Arson Attacks (not...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Forbairt na Gaeilge (27 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I nDaonáireamh 2022, cuireadh na roghanna seo a leanas ar fáil do fhreagróirí a thug le fios i gCeist 13 gur labhair siad Gaeilge le chomh minic is a labhair siad Gaeilge a chur in iúl. 1 Go laethúil, taobh istigh den chóras oideachais 2 Go laethúil, taobh amuigh den chóras oideachais 3 ...