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

Denis Naughten: 741. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of breaches of Part 2 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001 in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of cases pending; the number of convictions in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27187/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult and child flu vaccine doses respectively received by the HSE to date in September 2020; the number that have been distributed to doctors and pharmacies; the number of adult and child flu vaccine doses respectively to be delivered by 30 September, by 15 October, by 31 October and by 30 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 967. To ask the Minister for Health the date when each adult disability training centre in CHO2 will be reopened to all users post the Covid-19 closure; the reason for the delay in reopening services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27219/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 975. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reply to correspondence (details supplied) regarding bed capacity at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27270/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 8 September 2020, the specific supports to be provided for small coach operators in view of the severe financial pressure being placed on businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25674/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Government has allocated €10 million to the coach industry which is very welcome. The fund is to be distributed via Fáilte Ireland. However, to date not one cent has been allocated. The private hire market has completely collapsed. There are 1,700 operators in the country employing 11,500 people. The aforementioned fund is equivalent to €870 for each of those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: To synopsise what the Minister has just said, if you are not a licensed bus operator providing a licensed service, if you are not contracted to Bus Éireann, then there is nothing for you. As the Minister knows, the NTA has washed its hands of the industry outside of the licensed sector. I wrote to the Minister and the NTA in August regarding the private school bus operators who had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The reality is that the taxi, chauffeur-drive and private school bus operators have been completely ignored by the Government to date. Five weeks ago, I wrote to the Minister regarding the private school bus operators but he has yet to respond to me. These operators do not come under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills which is only interested in those that are contracted to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a refund or motor tax credit will be issued to motorists that did not use their car or used it to a minimal extent during the Covid-19 lockdown in line with many insurers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make additional third-level places available in high demand courses to ensure that students that were downgraded in their leaving certificate exam through standardisation do not lose out on a college place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26154/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 261. To ask the Minister for Health if the current advice on the potential impact of the winter flu vaccination programme on the susceptibility to other respiratory viruses (details supplied) will be provided in advance of the administration of the vaccine; if he has engaged with other colleagues across the EU on the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26166/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (24 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to ensure that the new antiparasitic medicine regime to be implemented from January 2022 retains a substantive role for existing stakeholders and delivers value for money for farmers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26164/20]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I am sharing time with Deputy Tóibín. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I want to put on record my acknowledgement that the Minister has remained in the House for the totality of the debate. I commend him on that because it does not often happen. I know it is difficult to do with the pressures of time under which he is working. An tUachtarán na...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I am not comfortable with the phrase the Minister used about this being the most generous income disregard. It is but there is good reason for that. The reality is that every person, particularly an older person, who is kept out of a nursing home saves the taxpayer between €600 and €800 every week. If it is a child or adult with a profound disability, the savings are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I fully accept that the focus of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection is on income support. The reality is that carer's allowance was never designed solely as an income support because of the income disregard that was introduced and the need to try to support as many older people as possible to remain in their own homes and, of course, to support younger people with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister will be sick listening to me.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing discretion on the 18.5 hours per week employment exemption under the carer's allowance scheme in circumstances in which it has no impact on the level of care provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25004/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister has answered 28 Oral Questions since her appointment, not one of which has been in relation to carers. Carers are the backbone of our health and care system. There are over 4,400 full-time carers in my constituency of Roscommon-Galway and the vast majority of them have faced significant additional burdens as a result of Covid-19. It would be a terrible thing if their plight...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I must say at the outset that I am specifically talking about situations where the people who are being cared for are in day care, in a training centre or in school. I accept that the amount of hours per week has been increased. I welcome it and supported the Minister's predecessor, former Deputy Regina Doherty, on moving it from 15 hours per week up to 18.5 hours a week. That is to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Carer's Allowance (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: We need to address anomalies across schemes and this is one such anomaly where it is 18.5 hours for carers and 19.5 hours for the community employment and rural social schemes. Having said that, for the specific cohort of people I am talking about, the person who is being cared for is not in their home - they are in day care, a training centre or school. If one takes the example of a...