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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: .... All of us have received correspondence from parents, families and service users who are extremely anxious about it. Because next week is budget week, we will not get the opportunity to debate this. Could we have an emergency meeting of the Business Committee later today to see if we can facilitate a debate at some stage this week on this issue, because it is important? All of us in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: Even after the tortuous road to diagnosis, patients in many instances have to educate the doctors who are treating them. That is because the expertise does not exist in Ireland for many of the conditions, due to their rarity. To address this, the EU cross-border directive mandated the establishment of the EU reference network to link rare disease clinicians right across the EU. Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I return to a topic I raised with the Tánaiste here on Leaders Questions last May regarding the diagnoses and care pathways for patients with rare diseases. Despite their name, rare diseases are not rare at all. We all know someone with a rare disease. In Ireland, about one in 12 people are or, at some stage in their lives, will be affected by such a condition. This means that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I want to discuss the broader issue raised by Deputy Dillon. I accept that this Bill is far from perfect. There are technical issues, and the Department has flagged those. There issues with language. There are logistical challenges regarding the way the legislation has been drafted. We are the first ones to hold up our hands and say that the Bill needs to be amended. However, the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I will come in to make a couple of quick points. I take what Senator Flynn says about data collection. In 2023, Ireland is one of the biggest software exporters in the world but we have to do a census in respect of people with disabilities and their needs to know what is going on. There is something fundamentally wrong when we are still using technology from the last millennium to try to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I point out to Deputy Murnane O'Connor that Senator Clonan spoke earlier about two boys of 12 years of age going to school for the first time. That is a damning indictment of the services we have today. If the shoe were on the other foot and the parents did not send the children to school for 21 days, they would be prosecuted, yet we can have a situation where children do not go to school...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I welcome Dr. Gafarova and the Azerbaijani delegation to the House, particularly on behalf of our former colleague Terry Leyden, who is a neighbour of mine. As Terry could not welcome you here, I am glad to do so. It is great to have you here with us today. I hope you enjoy your visit to Ireland. I hope your engagement with speakers from the other parliaments is a very productive one. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

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

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Duggan. Before I bring in Senator Murphy, I wish to make one request. A very clear explanatory document on this transitionary period needs to be designed in conjunction with the National Adult Literacy Agency, NALA. It needs to clearly lay out how this calculation is taking place. In fairness, the Department is very good at doing this anyway. It will cause considerable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Deputy. I agree with him on his first point and I believe that the committee can make a recommendation so I will not be asking Mr. Duggan to come back on that point. Mr. Duggan has left the position of the Department very clear in that respect. It is within the remit of this committee to make a recommendation along those lines on that particular provision. We have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: If I may, Deputy Ó Cuív. Can Mr. Duggan explain how this new register will apply because I believe that this covers the issue which Deputy Ó Cuív is talking about which is people who do not fit into the criteria of the definitions which are there at the moment for carer's allowance, carer's benefit, carer's support grant and the domiciliary care allowance? This new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: There is a responsibility on our committee as parliamentarians to ensure that that is enshrined, in so far as we can, in primary legislation to ensure that when Mr. Duggan's replacement is here in 20 years time, that the same interpretation is taken of that. I accept that and that is our responsibility to ensure that happens when the legislation comes in. Mr. Duggan is explaining how this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I have a number of questions I would like to put Mr. Duggan with respect to the heads of the Bill here before us. First of all, I want to follow up on the question that Senator Murphy asked about the threshold of 70 years of age. The threshold of 65 for a pensioner, or now 66 as the case may be, was set when the life expectancy was much less than it is today. The life expectancy in 1960 was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: On the age threshold of 66, Mr. Duggan has said there is an actuarial calculation done if someone is getting an enhanced pension beyond their 66th birthday. I presume that this actuarial calculation is only being done on the primary payment and not on any supplementary supports the person would be entitled to. There is a saving to the State as a result of that. Is any calculation being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I will put it another way. There would be an average cost for everyone that goes into pension payment with regard to supplementary benefits. When the submission is made to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, up to now the Department of Social Protection knew exactly how many people would reach the threshold of pension age in the next 12...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: It will probably be a recommendation from the committee anyway that that would be included in it. In terms of the actuarial calculation, as it is set out here in the proposed legislation, for every full year one gets an actuarial calculation. If one does not retire until one's 67th birthday, one will get a form of a top-up. How does that apply to someone who is short contributions? Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the witnesses and remind those in attendance to make sure that their mobile phones are switched off or in silent mode. Any members of the committee who wish to attend this meeting remotely must do so from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that in order to participate in public meetings, members must be physically present within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: Could Ms Ní Shearcaigh pause for a minute? There seems to be a problem with the audio at this end. Apologies for that. I do not know if it can be heard on the broadcast but we have a difficulty here in the room with the audio. We have the technical people looking at it at the moment. Could Ms Ní Shearcaigh turn the microphone on her laptop on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: There are a couple of questions I want to put to Ms Ní Shearcaigh. She pointed out in her opening statement that the retrofitting of homes has had an impact in terms of improving the living conditions of older people and that it has improved their health and well-being. As we know, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications commissioned the London School of Hygiene...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: We now move on to the final topic on our agenda, ehealth and living longer on islands. We have with us Dr. Ian McCabe, project manager with the health innovation via engineering lab, HIVE, at the University of Galway. He is also manager of the home health project, the healthy islands project and the virtual hospital project. We have Dr. Noreen Lineen-Curtis, the GP serving Clare Island and...