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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 244. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if music and dance will be allowed at weddings under level 3 restrictions as was the case previously at level 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42737/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce a mechanism for fourth year student nurses not in receipt of SUSI to receive the €250 refund in view of the fact that they will not be on campus in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42738/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle slaughtered from tuberculosis programme defined feedlot herds in each of the years 2014 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if beef produced from feedlots can be included under the proposed PGI application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42719/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly breakdown of the number of cattle slaughtered from tuberculosis programme defined feedlot herds in each week of 2019 and to date in 2020 in tabular form; the weekly feedlot kill as a percentage of the total weekly beef kill in each week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42720/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unannounced inspections in the 23 meat plants with mechanical grading to date in 2020; the corresponding figure for the nine plants without mechanical grading; the number of instances of factories being instructed to revert to manual classification when a machine was found to be working outside of tolerance; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the instances of non-compliance with carcase trim specifications his inspectors have identified in beef plants each month to date in 2020; when the names of plants involved will be published; the payments made to the farmer supplier to reflect loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42722/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the study into establishing the prevalence of mycoplasma bovis infection in the national herd has commenced; if the study will differentiate between feedlot produce beef and extensively produced beef; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce legislation to allow farmers access to meat plant CCTV of their animals in view of the fact that such material is presently made available by meat plants to their customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42739/20]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: The issue I am going to raise will not come as a surprise to the Minister because I am sure it was provided in his briefing note. I gave ample notice this time last year that I would revisit this issue this year if nothing had been done about it. What have South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel, Roscommon County Hospital, Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, St....

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Four.

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her clarification on the social protection calculation in terms of the total contributions. Now, can we get back to the meat of the issue? The fundamental problem I have with these provisions is that the affected children are the only children whose parents are in receipt of a social welfare payment who will get no increase next year. Bizarrely, parents in...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: As I stated, this is the third budget in which this has happened. The Minister is saying the qualified child allowance is paid on top of the working family payment. If that is the case, I will reluctantly concede on this occasion but I do not want to see this happening again, for a fourth time. We cannot have the affected families singled out for special treatment. It is not right.

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I raised a very specific concern on Second Stage regarding section 12 in the context of the working family payment and the discrimination against families with four or more children. They are the only children who are not been recognised within any increase in payments in this Bill. It is an overall cost to the Exchequer of €2.6 million out of a budget of €25 billion . That...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I addressed this issue on Second Stage. Will the Minister clarify the position on expenses? I am aware that she intends to bring forward a statutory instrument to deal with expenses that would be taken into account when coming up with the income calculation for musicians. Can she give an indication of what type of expenses we are talking about? When will that statutory instrument be laid...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. At the outset, I wish to ask the Minister and her Department what they have got against the fourth child in working families. I put this point to the Minister's officials when I spoke to them earlier in the week. Is it the case that when the Minister was in the schoolyard years ago, a fourth child pulled her pigtail or something? ...

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mental Health Reform and Dr. Philip Hyland of Maynooth University for their assistance in drafting the motion. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will want to join me in thanking the mental health staff who are working in hugely trying circumstances in our services across the country, and particularly in our acute services. I know this issue is close to the heart of Leas-Cheann Comhairle, as...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will review the current funding programme on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the current national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42294/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 24 November 2020, the reason there are no intervention programmes for females; her views on whether the failure to provide such programmes for women in need of the service is discriminatory in view of the fact that it is nearly impossible to access such supports elsewhere; and if...