Results 861-880 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vehicle Registration Tax (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: Every car that goes onto Irish roads should have automated emergency braking, lane departure warning, blind sport detection and drowsiness and attention detection. Those four measures alone would have a significant impact on road traffic deaths. Based on UK road safety reports for 2019 and research that was carried out on that, those types of measures would reduce skidding and overturning...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Regional Development (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: The Deputy is poacher-cum-gamekeeper.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress he has made with Enterprise Ireland, EI, on stimulating the establishment of indigenous businesses in the renewable energy supply chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51522/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: We have ambitious plans to generate just short of 30 GW of renewable electricity off our coast, with an estimated €80 billion capital expenditure investment. What are the Government's plans to develop the necessary onshore and offshore infrastructure, including enterprise capacity to support Ireland's energy revolution?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: I am losing track of it, even me.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: I am glad to hear that. Considering the huge job creation potential and the economic benefits of the offshore wind sector, and in the context of what the Minister has just said to me, how is Enterprise Ireland adjusting its focus to balance between aiding SMEs and exporting, and tapping into the domestic renewable energy potential? The difficulty for Enterprise Ireland is that up to now it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: What measures are being implemented to ensure that job creation is maximised in communities across the western seaboard and the western half of the island? How will the programmes the Minister has spoken about address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by the renewable energy sector? How is the cross-Government co-ordination going? This is one of the big concerns I have. I...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans, if any, he has to extend financial supports to business involved in import substitution from outside the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51521/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the work his Department is undertaking to fully utilise broadband connectivity in increasing sustainable employment, given that Ireland is set to become one of the most connected countries in Europe for fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to support job creation in regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to make grants available to SMEs to ensure that their websites are accessible for those with disabilities; if it will become a requirement of the trading online voucher scheme that websites are accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the relief available under the incapacitated child tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he and his European Union colleagues are taking to ensure better regulation of commodity future markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to amend the disabled drivers and disabled passenger's scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51473/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for the establishment of a consultative group of key external stakeholders to support the work of a referendum on the Unified Patent Court; the membership of this committee; the timeline for such a referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial support that he is providing to farmers in the Shannon callows for lost fodder and grass as a result of the flooding over the past number of months; if this support is available to farmers along the river Suck south of Ballinasloe and on the Little Brosna, where the same floodwaters have had a similar impact; and if...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: Approximately one in 12 people in Ireland will at some stage in life be affected by a rare disease. When family members, many of whom are carers, are included, this means approximately 825,000 Irish people are impacted by a rare disease. The Taoiseach will recall that the programme for Government published in 2020 contained a commitment to deliver a revised national rare disease plan to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Supports (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for her response and acknowledge her presence her but it is pitiful that none of the three Ministers could explain their absence from the House this morning. The extension to grazing lands, which was contained in the reply, is welcome. The difficulty is that farmers are being caught by a double whammy in terms of the loss of their fodder and the loss of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Supports (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: I wish to formally put on the record that I am not at all happy that a Minister from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is not present. The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, told me that he could not be here but there are two Ministers of State in that Department. It is not good enough that none of the three could be available this morning for what is an extremely urgent issue....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Final Report of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy Transport Working Group recommendation that the current Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme was outdated and should be replaced with a needs-based, grant-aided vehicular adaptation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51530/23]