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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (24 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to improve mobile telephone coverage in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will amend the warmer homes scheme to include carers benefit as an eligible payment given that a report (details supplied) estimates that households with a disabled person have an additional average spend of €9,027 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (24 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated price of oil on which his Department is basing its future energy projections in terms of energy security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average number of claims in payment under the carer’s benefit scheme; the average length of a claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (23 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that Irish Water provides funding to deliver a wastewater treatment plant in Creggs, County Galway which has been identified in the village plan as the key infrastructural investment required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety (23 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 258. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1200 and 1201 of 2 November 2021, if his Department has communicated with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine its view given the European Union Court of Justice decision that Irish hemp farmers and food producers are permitted to use all parts of the hemp crop to make their food products; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Consultations (23 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1200 and 1201 of 2 November 2021, the status of the consultation regarding the growing of fibre crops such as hemp; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10413/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Economic Policy (22 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I was not aware the question had been grouped. The last two years have been a very challenging time for businesses due to the Covid-19 restrictions. While larger grocery, pharmacy, hardware and retail outlets maintained or increased trade during the pandemic, smaller retailers faced periods of closure and significantly reduced footfall. On top of that, the cost of energy, fuel and...

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Carbon tax is supposed to be an environmental tax to drive behavioural change when it comes to the use of fossil fuels. In such circumstances the most effective tax is the one that brings in little revenue because it is doing what it should do, namely, driving behavioural change. Consider the plastic bag tax. It was so successful that it soon became a problem because one of the key...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: As the Minister will know, the Cabinet made a decision today on the compulsory use of face masks. This is causing a huge amount of anxiety, particularly among older people, who now say they are afraid to go on public transport because face masks are no longer compulsory. Can we have a debate in this House on the matter? Can we have the detail of the evidence provided to the Government and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Our electricity prices are among the most expensive in Europe, with Irish families paying, on average, €180 extra for electricity annually. This is partly as a result of Irish families being forced to subsidise the cost of electricity, grid connections and backup supplies for existing and already planned speculative data centres. The Government decided in 2018 to stop the practice...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I am referring to the existing system, not the pie in the sky one.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I accept the point made by the Minister, but the reality is that the court system is structured in such a way that convictions are published, decisions are made and judgements are given in public. Guilty parties should not be in a position where they can request and secure the erasure of this information. They are exploiting the privacy laws and this cannot be tolerated under any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: With all due respect, telling people that they can appeal a decision when the information is already taken down is no good. The Minister sits at the table of the European Council of Ministers along with her colleagues. I ask her and her colleagues to provide clarification and direction to the technology companies across Europe on this. In terms of convictions for the assault and rape of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps which she is taking to restrict the right to be forgotten under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, by convicted sex offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8375/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Those convicted in our courts of sexual offences against women and children are having their online records wiped away following requests to Google under EU privacy law. It is completely unacceptable, for the sake of the victims who have had to live with the consequences of those perpetrators' actions and any potential future victims, that court reports are being wiped away online. Those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to enhance policing in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8937/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Recent media coverage of robberies, burglaries and assaults on women in rural areas creates widespread fear and insecurity, particularly for older people in rural areas. We can only provide reassurance when the gardaí are given the resources. I accept we cannot have a garda at every crossroads but we need a visible community policing presence across the country.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the fact that 800 new gardaí will be recruited. How many of these will end up in Roscommon, Longford, and Mayo? As I raised with the Minister for Justice before Christmas, we have had occasions when in half of County Roscommon only one member of An Garda Síochána has been policing an area from Ballyleague on the Longford border to Ballinasloe on the Galway border....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Garda units in the districts across this large division have gone from units of seven and eight members to units of three and four members. We have had instances where only one member of An Garda Síochána has been available for a large district. That is the reality and that is what is happening on the ground. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality produced...