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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: Ireland is setting out a very ambitious set of targets in our carbon budgets for the next 15 years. If we are to achieve such significant reductions, we will need to bring the public along with us on that journey. People cannot be commanded. Effective change means putting the levers of climate action into people’s own hands. That will not be achieved by shoe-horning continental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in finalising the new wind energy guidelines; when the new guidelines will come into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a primary school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18202/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: 867. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a serious incident that occurred on the evening of 29 March 2022, when a person under psychiatric care residing in a HSE managed facility (details supplied), tried to force their way into the home of a terrified widow in their 80’s living on their own; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome this legislation. It is positive that we are debating it. One thing that we should set as a benchmark is that no child should ever go to bed hungry. The reality is that no children will ever reach their full potential if they are sitting at a school desk, hungry. According to the State agency, Safefood, 10% of our population in Ireland lives in food poverty. As a food producing...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: Last Friday, the European Council took the decision to reduce our dependence on Russian gas and to address high energy costs. As natural gas is such a key element of electricity generation here in Ireland, that decision has the potential to reduce costs here. However, we have no way of storing natural gas in the short term. We cannot capitalise on this Council decision, even though we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the measures the Minister is taking in respect of market transparency but I am deeply disappointed with his response. As he will be aware, primary producers in Wyoming and New York has gone down this road because it provides an alternative route to market for a premium product that can have a direct financial return for the primary producer. The only way this will work here is if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that if this is not led by the Minister, it will not happen and we will not ensure there is an alternative route to market. We have handed over €6 million to Bord Bia to promote suckler beef, even though that body publicly advised the Minister's predecessor that it does not believe there is resonance in the market for suckler beef. I do not know, therefore, why we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a State-owned and State-controlled beef blockchain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16263/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The blockchain in the beef industry is tomorrow's offal. Whoever controls the blockchain controls the sector. This must be publicly owned and should not be let fall into the hands of one or two vested interests. This is the last throw of the dice for beef farmers in this country to have the opportunity to have some element of control of the market and it needs to be led by the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to provide long Covid services across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16430/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: Based on research that I commissioned from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, we have somewhere between 145,000 and 300,000 cases of long Covid in Ireland, with a surge of these cases presenting to our already overwhelmed health service as a result of the spread of the Omicron variant late last year. I am concerned that our health service is sleepwalking into a potential avalanche...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome that these post-acute and long Covid clinics are being established, but we have been a long time waiting for that. I was promised last September that they would be put in place. We are being told that, until they are put in place at hospital level, there will not be a network back to the GPs. The Minister has provided advice this morning that people experiencing long Covid...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that we are experiencing an avalanche of these cases. Somewhere between one in ten and one in five people who have Covid end up with long Covid. They are presenting at GPs' surgeries at the moment but there is no referral pathway in place for the majority of them. We are looking at a minimum of 145,000 people added on top of the 1,610 people already within hospitals...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 19. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address delays in diagnostic tests in the health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11380/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 25. To ask the Minister for Health the role of genomic medicine in Ireland; his plans for a national genomics strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 80. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce a no-fault vaccination compensation scheme for severe adverse reactions to State-promoted vaccination programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 98. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address delays in elective procedures in hospitals nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11379/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 112. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the chronic waiting lists within the health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11378/22]