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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I ask members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones, please, as they interfere with the recording equipment. I also remind members to sanitise their desk areas and seats when leaving the committee room. We turn now to the main item on our agenda which is the consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic supports for the islands and rural communities. In this regard, I welcome the officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pandemic Supports to the Islands and Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Parnell. I acknowledge that he is prepared to address the queries of members on the Leader programme later. We will come to it towards the end. I thank him for accommodating us in that regard. I will have to leave this meeting early. Deputy Carey will take over. I also have to be in the convention centre. Unlike our Lord, I cannot be in two places at once. We will start...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Eighteen years ago last April, I had a meeting with the Taoiseach, then Minister for Health and Children, and Deirdre Gillane, along with Margaret Best, with regard to a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme. The Government has decided to introduce indemnity for the five vaccine companies that are coming forward with a Covid-19 vaccine. I ask the Taoiseach when we will see a no-fault...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of properties in each town, village and rural area within each local authority area approved under the repair and lease scheme and the buy and renew scheme since inception to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42039/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the witnesses for their evidence and the Chair for facilitating me. I have some questions that are probably more for Mr. Smyth and Mr. Noble. The ombudsman's report is out of date because when it was published, the HSE had admitted that 554 health and social care professionals, comprising various therapists so vital for children's development, including physiotherapists,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Can I briefly seek clarification on that? In evidence given to the Joint Committee on Health by the HSE they categorically stated that once those therapy staff were relieved from contact tracing and swabbing they would go back into the front-line services. Are the witnesses saying that has not in fact happened and they have not gone back into the front-line services, as the HSE had stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: When they have gone back, they have gone back to assessments rather than front-line treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (8 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: No. On that issue, this is a further aspect that really needs to be addressed now. HSE representatives who appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health stated categorically that staff would be put back into front-line services to deal with the backlogs that had been created and now we find out from evidence given before this committee today that this blatantly is not happening....

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Our amendments Nos. 73 and 75 relate specifically to the application of carbon tax to agricultural diesel. We had a very detailed discussion on Committee Stage regarding the broad thrust of carbon taxes. However, in the case of the agricultural sector, there is no alternative available because farmers in Ireland do not have electric tractors. The whole objective behind carbon taxes is to...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome this initiative and thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon. It is timely and welcome. It hope it will have a positive impact on many farms across the country. I ask the Minister of State if he will do two things for me regarding the work he has done for the Minister for Finance. Will he chat with the Ministers for Finance and Health about some of the 1,500...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I hope we get an opportunity later to speak on the substantive amendments that would make a difference in the midlands. I will not go over the carbon tax because we discussed it at length on Committee Stage. I have a specific question for the Minister. The bands used here are related to the bands for vehicle registration tax, VRT. There are 11 bands in place for VRT at present and with...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I will be brief. I wish to raise two points with the Minister. The first is dance groups around the country. We were lucky during the recent lockdown that children were at least able to train outdoors for sport, but a lot of young people do not get involved in sport and, for them, dance is a very important physical activity, especially from a mental health as well as a physical health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. The reality is that €38 is being wasted in lost operational capacity for every single family in this country, who will be paying for it through their electricity bills. There are also the demolition costs of the two power plants and the replacement electricity reinforcement costs. All of those costs will be footed by families throughout...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: Ireland’s 70-year history of generating electricity from peat will come to an end in just 15 days. As Minister responsible for energy, I was instrumental in bringing about a transition from peat but, under my plan, there was to be an orderly winding down of peat harvesting up to 2026. In the next 15 days, however, two of the biggest peat-fired power plants in the world will stop...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he is taking to take children out of the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (3 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: 335. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the rolling recruitment campaign for staff nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40849/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: I will respond briefly to the Minister. The reality is that the approach in future will be probably two days at home, two days from a hot-desking facility and one day in the office. The same capital allowance is being given for an office desk which may be occupied five days a week as for a desk at home which might be occupied for two days a week. I also refer to the additional costs in...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: What is wrong with Connacht?

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: We will show you on Sunday.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: With regard to my concern, I made a similar argument to the Minister last year. While the narrative might have been different, the position was the same. The Minister was not prepared to support remote working. My fear is that the reason for the current narrative is that we are trying to protect the value of pension fund investments. Such funds have bought a lot of office accommodation...