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Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: Sorry, but this is repeatedly happening in the House. Under Standing Orders, the party that moves the Private Members' motion has the last ten minutes of the debate. That is sacrosanct and is protected. We have ten minutes, whatever way the time is divided up. That is what is in the Standing Orders.

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: I have already provided advice, both privately and publicly, on a number of occasions.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: I wonder how you lost track of that.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: Quite a number of Members in the House served with John Bruton. Our colleagues Richard, John's brother, Brendan Howlin, who has just spoken, and Michael Lowry who is unavoidably abroad at the moment, have a unique insight into John because they served with him in Cabinet when he was Taoiseach. I served on John's last Front Bench and what springs to mind for me when I think of John Bruton is...

Report of Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (1 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will take up his suggestion on the food poverty pilot. I ask that when the report comes to him he circulates it to the committee. I can give him an assurance that the committee will look into it and would like to develop it. It is something the committee is committed to. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach of the committee, Deputy Ó...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that Roscommon town will be the only county town in Ireland without an An Post-owned post office if this measure goes ahead. Disappointingly, the type of support that is needed for An Post to develop its own post office network with new services has not been forthcoming to date from the Government, despite a Cabinet commitment to deliver that. This is at least in part...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. I thank the office of the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, for responding to me to say he cannot be here because he is in a committee. However, I am not at all happy that none of the other two Ministers of State in the Department of communications could come into the House to respond to this matter. We are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: Last year, the Saolta University Health Care Group undertook an external review of nine cases of haemorrhage where newborn babies suffered bleeding between their skulls and their scalps during their birth in 2022 in University Hospital Galway. Despite having had the report since last October, it remains unpublished. This is worrying because the Saolta group has been inconsistent in how it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: Now we see the reason for my frustration that there is not a Minister or Minister from State from the relevant Department here to respond. The points I raised have not been addressed, which is not the fault of the Minister of State, Deputy O'Brien. A further point that needs to be addressed along with the staffing issue is the significant hurdle that presents in the form of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I formally express my deep dissatisfaction at the absence tonight of the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. In fairness, the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, who is familiar with the issues, informed me of his unavailability. However, not one of the other two Ministers in that Department has attended this evening. Such absences are becoming a worrying...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: While there is no doubt we need new homes, as the Minister is aware, I have long advocated the release of vacant homes to assist those in urgent need of housing. I have argued that we have streets in our towns and villages that have not had a football kicked on them for a generation. Many of these have vacant family homes close to schools and services with high-speed broadband outside the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for his reply. To put a face on this discussion, in November last year, I raised the case of Una with the then Tánaiste. Una was a pensioner aged 66 at that time and despite working all her life, she was in receipt of a non-contributory State pension. She was refused the medical card because she receives a net income of €1 per week on top of her pension for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: We are in a perverse situation where we are in an economy at full employment and we need workers within our economy, especially in the whole digital area and yet, we have appallingly poor participation rates for one-parent families. We are rolling out high-speed broadband to every single home in the country, and as I said to the Minister of State previously, we need to look at how we can now...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty with all of that, with all due respect, is that this is what we have been doing down through the decades, decade after decade. What I am suggesting to the Minister of State is that right across the economy at the moment, not just domestically but globally, there is a huge shortage of staff in the area of cybersecurity. This is an area of flexible employment. It can be done...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps which she is taking to increase employment participation levels among those in receipt of one-parent family payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53876/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: The survey of income and living conditions for 2021 showed households headed by lone parents continued to be some of the hardest hit by deprivation and poverty. This is before the full impact of the cost-of-living crisis of the past two years is taken into account. Lone parents are struggling to meet the cost of living on a day-to-day basis for themselves and their children and we need to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision not to include long Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53874/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I am persisting with the issue of recognition of long Covid and Covid as a prescribed illness. I fully accept that, under the terms of our occupation illness scheme, if this recognition is provided, it will lead to just a handful of claims, if any, coming forward. Its recognition will, however, have significant implications for medical assessments for illness benefit, invalidity pension and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: The difficulty is there are quite a number of contradictions here. If we look to other EU countries, every other EU country has recognised Covid as an occupational illness except Ireland and Greece. The Department of Health and the HSE have recognised long Covid for anyone who was infected up to 15 November 2021, which is a full year and three months after the threshold the Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: Figures provided to me by the Department show that up to last June, approximately 750 workers who contracted Covid and were out of work for over 12 months were in receipt of a social welfare payment. This does not include those who made a recovery from Covid and subsequently had a relapse of long Covid. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg as regards this condition. This condition...