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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: The committee could play an important role in securing the viability of many of the smaller rural post offices across the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: No. I suggest that the committee writes to the Secretaries General of each Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures: An Post (17 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: All of them. I mean every Secretary General because they have a role in implementing Government policy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow the medical card waiver to apply for school transport for pupils who may not be attending their nearest school for a variety of reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35701/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the decision support service within the Mental Health Commission will become operational; the reason it has taken so long; the impact this is having on the commencement of large parts of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 and the operation of the wards of court system; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 859. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the dementia adviser service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35017/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1010. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure positions are available for graduate nurses in a hospital (details supplied); his views on the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35702/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1254. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plan to provide prefabricated theatres at Merlin Park Regional Hospital, Galway; when the decision was first taken to go for a prefabricated solution; when tenders were sought, received and a preferred tender selected; the original timeline for completion; the current timeline; the projected capacity of the new facility over the current...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1263. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme who have a family home registered in their name which is included as part of the assessment for the scheme; the number of these houses that still have a spouse or family member residing in the property; the number of these family homes that are rented and generating an income; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances in which mechanical grading was suspended in meat plants in cases in which a machine is found to be working outside of tolerance and manual grading is instigated to date in 2019; when the report on the replacement of the outdated grading machines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1986. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities will be allowed discretion regarding the income threshold under the tenant purchase scheme for isolated rural houses for which there is no housing demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Sep 2019)

Denis Naughten: 1981. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when amending regulations for solar panel exemptions on rooftops will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36138/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: The stories from the ESB, Bord na Móna and the EPA do not add up. My understanding is that the contracted tonnage has already been achieved. I ask the Minister to get answers to the questions I have raised and I would like a copy of those replies as well. Some 400 families are directly dependent on Lough Ree power station. Hundreds more are indirectly reliant on those jobs. We need...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: Some 24 days ago the Government published the climate action plan which referred to a just transition. That seems to have been ignored today as 148 employees from counties Roscommon and Longford, 72 of them permanent staff, are to be laid off by Bord na Móna. The justification for these lay-offs just does not add up. There have been long shut downs of Lanesborough and Shannonbridge...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: On my behalf and on that of the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran, we have been told that job losses are because of a 2013 alteration to the ESB licence for the Lanesboro power station. We did not see any solutions brought forward by the company for five full years until 2018. This now threatens over 300 jobs. I ask that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, haul the three organisation...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the different income streams directly paid by persons to his Department or agencies under his remit, such as motor tax; the number of persons making annual payments; the value of same; the number of payments made through staged or increment payments; the value of same; the additional income generated as a result of payments being made on an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the different income streams directly paid by persons to his Department or agencies under his remit, such as motor tax; the number of persons making annual payments; the value of same; the number of payments made through staged or incremental payments; the value of same; the additional income generated as a result of payments being made...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the different income streams directly paid by persons to his Department or agencies under his remit, such as motor tax; the number of persons making annual payments; the value of same; the number of payments made through staged or increment payments; the value of same; the additional income generated as a result of payments being made on an incremental...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the different income streams directly paid by persons to his Department or agencies under his remit, such as motor tax; the number of persons making annual payments; the value of same; the number of payments made through staged or increment payments; the value of same; the additional income generated as a result of payments being made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the estimate of an organisation (details supplied) that the extension of the July provision to all children with Down's syndrome that need access would cost €1 million per annum is correct; his views on whether children with Down's syndrome need the additional support during the summer months in order that they can catch up with...