Results 81-100 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: However, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, sets the 50% rate under the scheme and it is that with which I have an issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I would not mind doing a bit of canvassing as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I will raise it tomorrow morning, early.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: What I am looking for here is a small bit of discretion with the social welfare officers rather than having the 18.5 hours set in stone. We are probably speaking about maybe 15 or 20 people in total across the State who would avail of this where their son or daughter is in full-time education or training, he or she is picked up in the morning and dropped home in the evening and for the rest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to increase part-time employment participation levels among those in receipt of jobseekers payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37489/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: This question has come up consistently at our Oireachtas committee from people who are involved in the caring profession such as home support workers, home helps and staff such as those. They find it very difficult to get staff to take on these roles and the social welfare rules, where someone can only work for up to three days per week, acts as a barrier.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: The problem is that this concept of working three days per week comes from when I was in short pants. The reality is someone can work up to 24 hours per week and still receive a social welfare payment if he or she does it over three days. However, if someone works two hours per day as a home help for five days per week, he or she cannot get it. The difficulty is that if he or she is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: The fact is that under the social welfare code as it stands a person can work for eight hours per day, three days per week - that is, 24 hours of work - and still receive a social welfare support under the jobseeker's payment. However, a person cannot work for four hours per day, five days per week. He or she is denied it even though they are working four hours fewer per week as a result of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I refer to the publication last August in Nature Medicine by Dr. Al-Aly and his team. He works in Washington University with veterans. They looked at studies all over the globe on long Covid. They made the point that recovery rates are extremely low after one year. Medical officers in the Minister's Department based in Longford have been taking a flexible approach in relation to patients...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I will come back to the report again. One of the points made in the report is that there needs to be streamlining of disability benefit processes. I accept that schemes are available from the Minister's Department but it would be better if it was clearly defined on the Department's website, "If you have the symptoms of long Covid for a period of time, these are the options available to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing discretion on the 18.5 hours per week employment exemption, under the carer's allowance scheme, in circumstances in where it has no impact on the level of care provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37486/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: It is like a dose of Epsom salts at the moment. I have taken up with the Minister before the issue of the 18.5-hour cap on someone in receipt of the carer's allowance. I have given examples of cases in which the child for whom the carer is caring is in education and the carer could work for more than 18.5 hours a week. The Department should allow flexibility in that limited number of cases...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I accept everything the Minister said. I am talking about a small cohort of people. They are the mothers of children with profound disabilities, intellectual disabilities or mental health issues who are in a training centre or in full-time education. They are out of the home for more than 18.5 hours a week because they are at school or at the training centre. There is no issue in relation...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to facilitate claims by those unable to work due to long Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37484/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I want to raise the issue of long Covid with the Minister. During the summer, an academic report review article was published on long Covid, covering the science, research and policy. It made quite a number of recommendations, some of which are applicable to the Minister's Department. It was published in Nature Medicine. It is talking about taking a more adaptive and flexible approach to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: As the Minister knows, I have raised the bizarre situation whereby there are no plans to relocate the genomics lab at Crumlin Children's Hospital when other services move to the St. James's Hospital site. It has now come to my attention that we are sending Irish samples to the United States, the UK, France, Spain, Germany and Finland for genomics testing. There are concerns about how the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 21. 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. [37485/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps 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. [37488/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Funding (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 55. To ask the Taoiseach the projects and programmes with his Department which have been allocated funding under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Programme; the funds drawn down to date in each instance; the profiled drawdown in each of the forthcoming years of the programme; and the steps he is taking to ensure that projects and programmes are completed within the specified timeframe [37795/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Funding (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the projects and programmes with his Department which have been allocated funding under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Programme; the funds drawn down to date in each instance; the profiled drawdown in each of the forthcoming years of the programme; the steps he is taking to ensure that projects and programmes are completed within the...