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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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps which she is taking to increase part-time employment participation levels among those in receipt of jobseeker’s payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53877/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the “working week” for working age payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53875/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to a submission from Family Carers Ireland on the introduction of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53878/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps which she is taking to increase part-time employment participation levels among those in receipt of jobseeker’s payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54273/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the implementation of the index changes by an organisation (details supplied), in light of the fact that these changes were made after farmers signed up for the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54345/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I apologise but I must leave at 11 a.m. The witnesses can thank their colleagues because the Women's Infrastructure Network is having its first chapter meeting in Ireland today and I have been asked to speak at it. They are getting off the hook because of that, so they should thank them for that. Members are required to participate in the meeting remotely from within the Leinster House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I now invite Mr. Finnegan to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Denis Naughten: I now invite Mr. Gannon to make his opening statement.