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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sexual Offences Data (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform the monitoring of sex offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47457/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sexual Offences Data (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to tag sex offenders following their release from prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47458/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: First, I want to acknowledge ICTU, Patricia King and the work that they have been doing for a long number of years on the just transition and I contributed as Minister to a number of those debates because the objective was to open up that discussion. On the issue of procurement and of putting a plan in place, whether it is a Spanish template, a German template, a Swedish template, no matter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I apologise for being late. I was in the House too, trying to put a tax incentive in place for Bord na Móna and the ESB. I will be brief because I am going back into the House again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Armstrong referred to the midlands scheme. It must include Roscommon and east Galway, where Bord na Móna sites adjoin the two powers stations. Have any shallow retrofits not gone ahead as a result of rent arrears? Local authorities previously used that policy to penalise people who were in arrears. Those people were in fuel poverty and could not access the retrofit. Can Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: Was it EirGrid that stated there was a need for Grid West and Grid Link?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: It told us they were needed and then stated they were not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: Is it not a moral issue that those in fuel poverty are the ones who do not have the retrofit carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: That is not what is in the decision of An Bord Pleanála which will set the precedent because it has been allowed to stand.

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The vital personal assistant service is undermined by the medical model of disability. People must do what they are told, not what they want to do so. We see this in the action taken by the Irish Wheelchair Association to impede the hand-over of the Cuisle respite care service in County Roscommon to another operator. The right to work, have friends and have a choice of leisure activities...

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: That is inflation gone wrong.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: To clarify, Irish Community Rapid Response is registered as a charity in Ireland. That is not the issue. The issue is that it buys a service from Sloane Helicopters, which is based in the United Kingdom. This operates very well and a model has been developed on this basis. After Brexit, however, in order to operate in an EU member state, Sloane Helicopters will have to be registered in an...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: The point I am making is that the company will be forced to register here. It will not have a choice. To operate here after the UK exits the European Union it will be forced to do this. This is where the difficulty arises. As a result, we are looking at a charity having an additional financial burden of €2 million a year.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 8: In page 22, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(2) For the purpose of clarity such provisions will also apply to businesses with charitable 2 status providing emergency medical services in the State but registered in the UK, which shall be required to re-register in the State following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I listened to what the Minister said. As he knows, the Government announced earlier today that we will be creating 300 broadband hotspots across the country. These are locations from which people will be encouraged to work remotely. They are not people's homes. They are for people who do not have access to high-speed broadband at home. In light of the savings as compared with spending on...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I am not asking for a commitment but the Minister's officials can be working on it.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 6: In page 20, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Tax credit claim 17. A tax credit can be claimed where a person works remotely.”. I tabled this amendment, the subject of which is topical today as it is the day we signed the contract for the national broadband plan, to try to incentivise and encourage people to work remotely. There...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to enhance supports for children with a learning disability within the education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47442/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry Irregularities (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 426, 427 and 428 of 12 November 2019, the month in which the factory concerned breached the excess carcase trimming specification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47745/19]