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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: Deputy Joan Collins is next.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: We will wait until we reach that section, if the Deputy does not mind.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I am sorry. Fire ahead, Deputy.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I do not believe that in principle there is a reluctance in the Department to facilitate supplementary welfare supports. I know the Minister is committed to ensuring this is as flexible as possible but the reality on the ground is different. The first thing I would ask her to do as a matter of urgency is to have a remote meeting with every community welfare officer in the country to relay...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: We will now move on to the programme of working age employment supports. We have invited the Minister to appear before the joint committee next week to deal with local employment services. Could she or her office come back to us on that invitation?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: That would come under employment supports, which is next. On working age income supports, I call Deputy Kerrane.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: We now move on to the next programme, which is illness, disability and carers. With the discretion of the committee, I will come in before other members because I have to go into the Dáil in a few minutes to speak about people with disabilities. I wish to raise two issues with the Minister. The first is one I raised during the passage of the social protection legislation before...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her response and while I will not dwell on the other issue, I will make the point again. In the past five months, there has been a 562% increase in long-term claimants as a result of long Covid. That is before we have had the impact of the Omicron variant, which is going to drive these figures significantly in excess of that level. The point I make is that, as a...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: Before we conclude, I wish to raise the issue of the Department's performance. I accept and know how performance targets are established by the management board to measure performance within the Department, but, as a committee, we have a responsibility to monitor the ongoing spending within the Department on an annual basis. The most effective tool for us to do that is through the...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her response. I have no doubt we would all agree that the Department of Social Protection has been exemplary in terms of its flexibility and management where issues have arisen, not only during the pandemic but prior to it. In fairness, as correctly stated by the Minister, when issues are brought to the Department's attention it is very customer-focused in trying to...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister. I would also remind the Minister of the outstanding request for next week in regard to the employment services.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for their time.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (16 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 37 - Social Protection.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: It would be nice to have the sterilisation facilities in the empty room there that the Minister went to see a couple of weeks ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: That is because of the helicopter service.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: Twelve months later Frankie gave-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: I am not disputing that the Government is spending money - this year we will spend €40,000 every single minute on the health service - but just throwing money at our waiting lists does not work within the health service. We need to see structural reform. For example, take the rapid access haematuria clinic - the blood and urine clinic - at Roscommon University Hospital, where 10% of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: As I stand here, people have been waiting three and a half years in acute pain for an orthopaedic appointment and a whopping four and a half years for a respiratory appointment. That is a 54-month waiting list for respiratory appointments and we are about to face into a potential avalanche of respiratory cases as a result of long Covid. According to research by the Oireachtas Library...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Sustainable Development Goals (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: 188. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by his Department in respect of its targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development under the policy remit of his Department; and if these targets and goals will be met by their respective deadlines. [7271/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Feb 2022)
Denis Naughten: 454. 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 on for social welfare payments during school holidays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8159/22]