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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Election of Vice Chairman (30 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: One of the first tasks facing the committee is the election of Vice Chairman. However, I propose that we defer consideration of this business and first consider in private session and in detail the next business on the agenda, that being, organising and conducting committee business arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. Regarding the election of Vice Chairman, I propose that members email the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla -Topical Issue Debates: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: In response to the Minister of State and with all due respect, as this reply was presented to him by the HSE, that is farmyard manure because it does not address any of the issues that I have raised with the Minister of State here. I have given a week's notice on this specific issue. In relation to all of these therapies, all the private providers have been back delivering these exact...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla -Topical Issue Debates: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Army stands available to do this. Its personnel are the ones who should be used.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla -Topical Issue Debates: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Some three-quarters of speech and language therapists in counties Roscommon and Galway are currently involved in contact tracing. Before the lockdown, there was a four-year waiting list to access speech and language therapy in those counties. That means a preschool child referred to speech and language services might not get support before his or her Holy Communion. At present, 1,049...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister talks about the issue of equity but there is not much equity for those young couples who are on the housing ladder trying to get a house in Dublin at present. There is not much equity for families who are spending hours sitting in traffic or queuing to try and get childcare places. We have a situation where we have the schools, the childcare facilities and streets that have not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I will pick up on the Minister's last point. There is a reference attributed to him in the Sunday newspapers where he is privately concerned about the amount of empty office space across Dublin and elsewhere as employees are encouraged to work from home. I would be concerned that this could be a vehicle used to undermine the objective of blended working and remote working to shore up the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I have time for one more intervention. There were two questions grouped. I am glad that the Minister clarified that. It is important that we try to get the balance right and that we look at blended employment. I can confirm for the Minister that there is demand, but it is only a drip at present. That could be progressed along the lines Deputy Murphy spoke about. We need to look, and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the tax reliefs currently available for those working from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26654/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the tax reliefs currently available for remote working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26655/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: House-hunters are returning to their native counties as they turn their backs on city living and take advantage of remote working. That will have a significant knock-on benefit in terms of housing pressure and demand in Dublin. Properties with home office potential are being snapped up around the country. Seamus Carthy, a neighbour of mine in County Roscommon, has 43 potential buyers on a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: If I may comment very briefly on the same issue of the regional balance of financial services, has the Minister met with the Carrick-on-Shannon Chamber of Commerce? As he will know, Avantcard is based in Carrick-on-Shannon. It is doing tremendously on its own. A massive facility and a skilled financial services workforce is available there. We need to redouble efforts to land new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I will discuss three issues briefly. First, our group will not have the opportunity to speak on the Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill tonight even though we have tabled 12 considered amendments to it. An opportunity needs to be facilitated. Second, we have been promised briefings. Statutory instrument after statutory instrument is being introduced in secondary legislation relating...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Yes. I would like clarity from the Taoiseach on the winter plan, which will be debated in the House on Thursday. When will we see the detail of that plan? None of us yet knows what will happen in the country, but we are supposed to be debating the plan on Thursday.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I accept this is an operational matter, but every Member can tell a similar story in respect of other hospitals across the country. It is not just about the lack of upgrading of equipment or the purchase of a software package. The issue of medical politics is also at play. After I placed pressure on the then Government in 2015, it eventually installed a state-of-the-art telemedicine rapid...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Deputies representing other parts of the country can speak for themselves as to what is happening in their areas.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Waiting lists are at a record high. It is all well and good to have a winter plan but we are still waiting for the detail of that plan and what will happen in each of our hospitals around the country. It is difficult to see how our hospitals will cope this winter as some are already struggling and it is still only September and we are facing into a second wave of Covid-19. At the last...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his longer-term vision and strategy for the Civil Service; his views on the provision of regional locations for support offices and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to move Government services online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26656/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to facilitate remote working of civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26664/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sex offenders on the sex offenders register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27186/20]