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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I accept that this is a complex area and yes, there are initiatives such as the repair and lease scheme, the buy and renew scheme and the acquisitions fund. The difficulty is that there are blockages within the system at present. One of them is the fair deal, or nursing home support scheme. There are 9,000 vacant houses across the country where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: Another bottleneck in availing of these schemes is probate. People in County Roscommon and the adjoining county of Galway, for example, have to wait an average of three and a half months for a probate application to be processed. If one is unfortunate enough to live in County Kilkenny, the process can take four and a half months. In Cork city it is taking two and a half months. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: That is great. I have two more measures for the Minister of State as well. The first is that his Department is spending approximately €31,000 through the local infrastructure housing activation fund and the serviced sites fund in releasing sites for housing development, mainly across the urban centres, the eastern part of the country and in our cities. At the same time, we have a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Estates (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the taking in charge of housing estates process will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17119/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Services Provision (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps taken to date to provide new public services through the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17942/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fossil Fuels (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to date to divest from fossil fuel investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17943/20]

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: From the Seanad (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: Ballydangan and Cloonfad. We have milled peat on bogs right across the midlands.

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: From the Seanad (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister stated on Committee Stage last week that the purpose of the amendment is to facilitate investment in Bord na Móna projects. I understand that is the basis for this amendment. On that basis, I will be supporting the amendment. I want to address the purpose of the amendment, which is to facilitate the employment of Bord na Móna staff to work on the cutaway bogs across...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the European Council's conclusions. In the seven pages of the conclusions that focus on the CAP, there are nine references to climate and climate change and one to food. This shows the change in focus at European level with regard to food. In fact, there was no reference whatsoever to the issue of food security. Surely, in the context of what we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hedge Cutting (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 17. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to enhance hedge-cutting during winter 2020-2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17116/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hedge Cutting (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: The Minister is aware that the ban on hedge cutting applies from 1 March to 31 August. At long last, on 1 March next year we are going to have high-speed broadband outside people's homes. As a basic offering, they are going to be offered 500 Mbps. Next March, I do not want people to be refused access to broadband because they are prohibited from trimming back hedges or cutting trees to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hedge Cutting (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: I bring the Minister of State back to my original question. This should not come as a surprise to him because I raised it with the senior Minister here in the Chamber two weeks ago and she gave me a commitment that she would bring this directly to the attention of the new Aire Stáit. I will ask him again, as he comes from a rural constituency. On 1 March next year people will have 500...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hedge Cutting (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: I am trying to protect the Minister of State's rear end here. He represents a rural constituency, just like my own. Next spring, he is the one who will be blamed when people are denied access to broadband. I ask him to pick up the phone to National Broadband Ireland to find out exactly what the specifications are in terms of bringing fibre cable from the telegraph pole into those homes and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting (22 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the relocation of turfcutters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17117/20]

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. This day last week the House discussed the need for a temporary extension on maternity leave to mothers of young babies. I stated then that the one point we must accept is that Covid-19 has changed matters utterly and we cannot simply dismiss proposals like those that were rejected out of hand by Governments in the past. Who would have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (21 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the public procurement threshold will be increased from €25,000 in view of the impact it is having on SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16823/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (21 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if green procurement will be incorporated into the public procurement code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16824/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Funding (21 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 78. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the funds received by a company (details supplied) from the enterprise agencies under his remit in 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17421/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address the impact of Covid-19 on the bus and coach sector; if he will consider the introduction of a subsidy to support the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17370/20]

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: Absolutely not.