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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 494. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49374/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (9 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application from Galway County Council for a wastewater treatment plant for Castleblakeney village; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of non-resident increase for a qualified adult, IQA, recipients where the primary payment is the State contributory pension; the annual value of such IQA payments in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the annual value of all secondary means-tested entitlements issued to non-resident State contributory pension...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (7 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 18 October 2023, if the draft regulations have been presented to his private office for consideration; when it is expected that these regulations will be published; if there is a period of time provided for in the regulations before they will be fully applied; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1132. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that community healthcare west CAMHS will have IT-enabled patient administration systems; when it is expected a decision will be made on a future IT system appropriate to CAMHS from the national group overseeing implementation of the recommendations of the Mackey report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47467/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (26 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47174/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: The next member indicating is Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the new draft e-scooter regulations currently exclude shared e-scooters due to the fact that they include a 25kg weight limit; if he is aware that shared services include enhanced safety features which make such scooters heavier than 25kg; if he will outline his plans for such shared services; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Article 8 of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive 2014 (2014/61/EU) will be enacted into Irish law by the end of 2023; the reason it has not been implemented to date; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45668/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Apologies have been received from Senators Róisín Garvey and Mark Wall. Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House only. I remind those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. I welcome the witnesses. They are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Egan, without interruption, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I wish to deal with poverty indicators first. They are a key element of the performance targets. The difficulty is that there is a time lag between the Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures when compared with the Department of Social Protection figures. What is being done between the Department and the CSO to try to get an indicator that is more time relevant? Due to the time lag, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I understand that. Within the methodology, there is only so much that can be done in that regard, which I accept. I am more indicating if there were live sets of data that would be indicative of what is happening concerning the poverty data. The CSO, for argument's sake, might say that grocery price inflation is very indicative of the trends in poverty. I am only throwing that out there....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Deputy Ó Cuív raises an important point but there are many implications in what he is talking about and it may be something on which the committee may wish to work with the Department to produce something specifically to look at that. I know that the statistics would be available to the Department. I am not sure if it would come into the performance indicator report but it is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: We might return to this in private session also. I invite Mr. Egan to speak now, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: With all due respect, the clerk may correct me, but my understanding is that we have only recently got access to that. It was in the past few months. It may help to address the issue. The Parliamentary Budget Office has only recently got access to it. It was solely within the ESRI until recently, but my understanding is that the Parliamentary Budget Office now has it and has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: My question is where the trend is going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I accept that it is not appropriate to put some of what I am asking for in the PSPR and some of it cannot be put into supplementary information because the data may not be generated. However, there is no reason that when the PSPR is circulated to the committee next year, with some of the supplementary data we are to be provided with from SWITCH that is not within the criteria set out here,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Could I suggest that the next time it is done Members of the Oireachtas are also included in that because we deal with these people on a day-to-day basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: We would see weaknesses. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme has been turned on its head in terms of where it is at the moment but we only found out as a committee what was going on when we actually had the Department come in to explain it. That should not be the case. We are at the coalface on this issue. We are equally busy as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul or the Money...