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

Denis Naughten: 34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means threshold for the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25005/20]

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

Denis Naughten: This question also relates to carers. The income disregard for the carer's allowance was consistently increased during the 2000s and there was a policy decision to try to make as many people eligible as possible. However, in the last 12 years that income disregard has not been altered whatsoever. The failure to expand the disregard means that families on the average industrial income are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Marketing Programme (22 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding spent by Bord Bia on the promotion of Irish beef in each of the past five years; the specific funding spent on the promotion of suckler beef in each corresponding year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25111/20]

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I tabled a parliamentary question earlier in the week regarding an issue I raised in the House last week. I refer to the anomaly in respect of the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, will know that when this was first mooted I argued strongly that we need to maintain the link between employees and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (17 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 34. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the 300 high-speed Internet hubs announced under the National Broadband Plan on 19 November 2019 will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (17 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 29. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the role that LEADER companies can play in supporting small rural businesses to overcome the challenges posed by Covid-19 has been explored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a candidate has to appeal the calculated grade in a subject in order to be able to sit the exam in that particular subject in November 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the class ranking applied to students grades, particularly for students who switched schools in their senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistical standardisation process used for leaving certificate results in 2020; if she will publish the data used in the standardisation process and the algorithm used; if she will address concerns expressed that some schools with a historically high level of better grades did not perform as well in leaving certificate 2020 in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been selected for a school (details supplied); when planning will be sought for the site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24391/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school development (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24392/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce an appeals system for the 2020 leaving certificate students which allows the calculated grades given to be challenged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 145. To ask the Minister for Health when the CT scanner at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe will be replaced; the number of times that it has not been functioning in the past 12 months; the period of time on each occasion; the alternatives presently in place at the hospital for CT scans; the cost of the alternative in the past 12 months; when the present scanner was installed; the date the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the location and number of CT scanners which are due to be replaced within the public health system by replacement priority; the date the warranty expired on each machine; the most recent date when each machine broke down; the period of time it was out of operation; the number of other CT scanners in each facility listed; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and waiting times for an urgent and non-urgent CT scan at each public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: 148. To ask the Minister for Health when the development of the new 50-bed long-stay facility at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24390/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that the agenda here is to shoehorn as much beef as possible into the PGI status application. As the Minister knows, the former Commissioner, Phil Hogan, said that we should be seeking designation specifically for suckler beef. When I raised this with the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Creed, in the House last October, he said that the concept of suckler beef does not have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister has heard that the stakeholders on this side of the House are vehemently opposed to the approach that is being taken which, from its inception, was about maximising the amount of beef that could be shoehorned into a PGI application. The Commissioner at the time said it would be unsuccessful. Unless we focus on suckler beef, that will not happen. The difficulty is that Bord Bia...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: Bord Bia.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (15 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: It got millions of euro.