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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to revise Regulation 3 of Statutory Instrument 353 of 1994; the number of applications in 2019 remission or repayment of Value Added Tax and Vehicle Registration Tax by persons with a disability; the total cost of this relief; the number of persons that have availed of the fuel grant in 2019; the total value of grants paid; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the current cost-benefit analysis criteria for flood relief works; his plans to provide a separate CBA for turlough flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32205/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures which the OPW plan to take to address the flooding of homes and farmland at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32235/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of rural social scheme participants provided for in the original 2020 and the 2021 estimate; the expected out-turn of participant numbers for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32239/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 October 2020, the efforts made by his Department to develop and validate new and improved TB tests; the potential variation in test results due to human error in reading skin test results; the measures taken by his Department to ensure consistency across the veterinary surgeons reading...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will open up the flooded farmyard relocation scheme for applications following the severe flooding of 2015/2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32237/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to allow farmers who have permanently lost grazing lands due to climate change to stack entitlements for BPS and ANC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32238/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will withdraw correspondence (details supplied), particularly in view of the fact that an engineering report has just been published and work by the GSI is ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32260/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: I had hoped to move a reasoned amendment at this stage to delay the Second Reading of the Bill for 30 days because I believe it is being rushed. It is being rushed because we are being asked to consider legislation without all the relevant information being disclosed to us. Let us remember that the commission of inquiry was established by the Houses of the Oireachtas and not by the...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: I note the Government's amendment. Its content and the speeches by the Ministers of State clearly acknowledge that nothing new has happened to support the post office network since I left office. I was one of the very few Deputies to make a submission to the Kerr report. I remind Members that I was presented with a situation in 2016 in which the collapse of An Post was about to happen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (21 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to take Committee Stage of the Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018 as agreed following the PMB motion of 29 July 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31785/20]

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank Deputy Ó Broin and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It brings into stark focus some of the issues relating to the housing sector. It is important that we try and deal with these issues individually and comprehensively. I will focus on two of them. The Government and the Opposition, public representatives across the country and community representatives are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: I have no difficulty with the Minister carrying out reviews. It is important that he does so. Another recommendation in the programme for Government is that the Government will progress a living wage over its term. We should use the childcare staff and sector as a pilot to roll out the living wage across the country. Regardless of what reports are produced, we all agree - the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister’s own research published earlier this week shows that 70% of childcare costs are directly associated with wages. If we can take the wages aspect out of childcare subvention, we can look at whatever else the funding is being spent on to see if it is being delivered properly. We all accept that the current rates of pay are unacceptably low and that childcare workers need...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeline for the establishment of childcare Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29743/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: 60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role and function of childcare Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29744/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: Staff packing baby wipes on supermarket shelves can earn more than a staff member using those very same wipes who is responsible for the care of a baby and two other babies. That is fundamentally wrong. We need to ensure there are proper pay scales put in place for those providing vital childcare services across this country.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: On research, my colleague, the former Minister, Katherine Zappone, commissioned the consultancy, Crowe, to complete an independent review of the costs of providing childcare in the early years services in Ireland. The review was published by the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, this week. The former Minister commissioned that work because of staff turnover. As the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: In the Minister's comments following the publication of the report, he said the findings on unit cost provided some confidence in our current levels of subvention. He then offered the caveat that he was acutely aware that the unit cost is based on pay rates in the sector, which are unacceptably low. The difficulty is that if one focuses on that, as the Minister did in his press statement,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Attendance (20 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: Strategies are all fine, and it is true that principals will deal with children in some instances, but in others the principal will be- damn glad to see the child gone out the door and will not be too worried about whether the child comes back. Sadly, all too often that relates to children on the autism spectrum. One parent was quoted as saying that a poor understanding of the child's...