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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jan 2022)

Denis Naughten: 1829. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an urgent outpatient appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that they were referred for an appointment in May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1963/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Jan 2022)

Denis Naughten: 2011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer is entitled to administer distomicide (details supplied) to cattle while the import licence expires on 27 January 2022; if not extended, the period that a farmer can continue to administer this remedy licence under SI No. 786 of 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2203/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 498. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 624 of 5 October 2021, if the vacant occupational therapy roles have now been filled; the number of children currently awaiting occupational therapy appointments in counties Roscommon and Galway; the average waiting time for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62431/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: White Papers (16 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 509. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to publish a White Paper on human genomics; the status of the programme for Government commitment on the establishment of a national genomics medicine network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62473/21]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I would rather if the Minister did not, and instead amended the legislation. The reality is a small number of carers will miss out on the fuel allowance for a full 12 months because we will not have the opportunity to look at this again. I submitted this amendment in plenty of time, and I am sure the officials looked at the figures. I stand to be corrected but I suspect we are talking...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her comments. The late Seymour Crawford, her predecessor as Deputy for her local area, is probably looking down on us tonight and would tell her to consider this issue. The particular farmers to whom I refer are not going into these schemes. Many of them want nothing to do with paperwork. Many of them are probably not even getting their area-based payments at all....

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 8: In page 15, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the inclusion of all half-rate carer’s allowance recipients under the fuel allowance scheme.”. This, too, is an issue that I raised on Second Stage. I tabled...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 7: In page 13, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(c) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on welfare measures which can support land mobility and environmental sustainability.". I flagged this amendment on Second Stage. I am using this as a vehicle to raise the issue....

Finance Bill 2021: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: I refer to an issue raised in the Seanad yesterday regarding the hotels that opened in the latter half of 2019 but prior to 1 November. Hotels that opened on or after 1 November 2019 are allowed to use their pre-pandemic projections for 2021 and 2022 as the base for comparison with their actual turnover in 2021 and 2022 in establishing whether their turnover achieved the 30% reduction. Due...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the detail of the discussions he has had with the just transition commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61989/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: The just transition commissioner was appointed by the Government to facilitate dialogue and bring forward concerns from affected communities, residents, workers and businesses from right across the midlands. I am deeply disappointed that the Government does not support the continuation of the commissioner's advocacy role. Kieran Mulvey very honestly exposed the duplicity of some of the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: It is deeply disappointing that Kieran Mulvey or his replacement will not be appointed from the beginning of next year, particularly when the EU just transition fund will not be in place until later in the year. Kieran Mulvey has exposed weaknesses in the existing just transition fund, pointing out that communities such as Ballyforan, County Roscommon, where €1 million in investment...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: Kieran Mulvey, in his engagement with the ESB, pursued the company on the release of the Dalton building in Shannonbridge and the tomato shed in Lanesborough for community use. As the Minister of State will be aware, the commissioner has highlighted the fact that the tomato shed will not be released to the local community for now. The ESB is making its release dependent on it being taken...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: European leaders will this week discuss energy prices and resilience across the European Union. One of the ways in which they can improve resilience throughout the Union is to improve digitisation of the EU economy. To do so, they need to change what meets the definition of "high-speed broadband" at European Commission level. Today the threshold that has to be reached for high-speed...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: In September 2000 the Government signed the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. While the Government has stated over the past 21 years that it is strongly committed to the ratification of the protocol and has enacted significant legislation to ensure Ireland is in compliance with the obligations...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: We should have a debate on the NBP. As the Taoiseach knows, the Minister of the day was kept at arm's length from the procurement process and the Department itself was responsible for the governance of the NBP. If the review of this contract is now completed, it needs to be published. Departmental officials need to be brought before the relevant committee to answer questions on the content...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will be passed by National Broadband Ireland by 31 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61145/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of Ireland's first clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61144/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will be retrofitted in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61990/21]