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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: 901. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive services from the local disability network team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12516/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Sustainable Development Goals (21 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: 923. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development under the policy remit of his Department; and if these targets and goals will be met by their respective deadlines. [12897/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: 957. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the various schemes and programmes under the remit of his Department that have located third country nationals to Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon since 2000, by year; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons located by each scheme per year since 2000, in tabular form; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: 958. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the various schemes and programmes under the remit of his Department that have located third country nationals to Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, since responsibility was transferred from the Department of Justice; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons located by each scheme...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...trained CPR responders. It then talks the person through performing CPR until those responders arrive. This is the type of community innovation, if supported, that can save lives. In January, two children died in choking-related tragedies involving food within two days of each other. As parents, all our hearts go out to those families. Tragically choking and suffocation is a...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...for Economic Co-operation and Development average, and for every 82 people forced to wait more than six to eight hours for admittance to a hospital there is one death above the expected mortality rate; — choking or suffocation is a significant unintentional cause of death in children; and — the Irish Medical Journal reported in 2020, that there were 4,385 hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: Late last year, 436 children in County Galway were waiting for a physiotherapy appointment, with the longest waiting time being more than three years. In County Roscommon, a further 95 children were waiting for physiotherapy, with the longest waiting time being almost one year. The picture is just as bleak for occupational therapy, where 540 children are waiting for an appointment in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...therapy and physiotherapy. We have all seen the crisis in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS, exposed by the Mental Health Commission report, but the reality is that all services for children are in crisis. Two of the most significant battles faced by parents of children with a disability relate to getting a diagnosis and after that long, tortuous process, the second...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (22 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the hours during which the critical care retrieval service for children is currently available; the reason this does not operate on a 24-7 basis; the alternatives in place when this service is not available; if there are plans to extend this to a 24-7 service for the hours during which the critical care retrieval service for children is currently available;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children under the age of five years are not treated at minor injury units; the plans he has, if any, to extend such services to children under five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7099/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (2 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to trace the three unaccompanied minors who remain unaccounted for, having disappeared from the care of Tusla in 2022; if he will outline the location and when these children disappeared; the type of accommodation involved; the steps he is taking to prohibit the use of hotels, bed and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 171. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce mandatory paediatric first-aid training for all childcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5195/23]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...issue before the Minister responds and we move on to the next subhead. The community recognition fund is welcome. I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, regarding the issues and challenges in Ballaghaderreen. There is an opportunity for Government initiatives to be taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the timeline of the HIQA assessment report on the proposal to add the chickenpox vaccine to the national vaccination schedule for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3027/23]

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...an appointment with a dentist. She rang every dentist in County Roscommon, County Mayo and County Leitrim, and not one of them was taking medical card patients. Mary is a single parent with two adult children for whom she is the primary carer. She put it to me that it is not easy to survive on her welfare payments. She is someone who worked all her life. She was forced out of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...island off the west coast of Europe, every day four people die in Ireland due to poor air quality. Two of the key underlying statistics when it comes to these threats are, first, that one in five children in Ireland has asthma and, second, that one in 13 adults has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, which is the disease that makes it hard to move air and in and out of the lungs....

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...-line workers. When we had this debate in the House earlier this month, colleagues from all sides spoke about front-line workers, including teachers, who contracted Covid-19 in school. Some were in special schools, providing supports to children with a disability. They are being denied any support from the State, which is turning its back on them. On top of those public sector...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: Some 247 months ago Margaret Best and I attended a meeting with the Taoiseach and his officials at the then Department of Health and Children regarding the introduction of a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme. Over the past two decades, while Governments have been committed to the introduction of such a scheme in the interests of both public health and the individuals concerned, we have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (10 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...with the school and home supporting this girl in my role as [visiting teacher for the visually impaired] VTVI who can also contact me as needed." That is not any informal engagement. These children deserve the equipment that has been recommended for them to receive and I want to see that happen.