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Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: It is on Shannonbridge and Tarbert.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: I will pick up from where my colleague, Deputy Whitmore, left off. We have been told this is an emergency measure. If it is an emergency measure, there should be a sunset clause. We are waiving the environmental laws in this country to facilitate this. It should be a once-off and the only way we can ensure this is a once-off, is if a sunset clause is put into it. I wish to know what...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 5: In page 8, line 8, after “provisions” to insert “and will continue in operation until 2 March 2024”. This is a simple, self-explanatory amendment. It provides for a sunset clause in the legislation, stipulating that it can only remain in operation until 12 months after its publication. The Government has waived pre-legislative...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: It is two and a half years.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: I could pick on part of Deputy Ó Murchú's last comment and spend the next 20 minutes very easily answering how we got here. It was obvious to me when I was the Minister with responsibility for energy. Some of the officials present will know, from the quite heated discussions I had in the Department and at Cabinet, that I was aware the lack of management of energy demand on the...

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

Denis Naughten: There are up to 10,000 community defibrillators in Ireland, according to the Irish Red Cross. Some of these are maintained by approximately 200 community first-responder schemes registered with the NAS This falls well short of the 275 first responder schemes registered with the NAS before the pandemic. The vast majority of these defibrillators have been funded by local communities or...

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

Denis Naughten: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — pre-hospital emergency care services in Ireland are changing with the growing and ageing population, and a holistic approach is needed to address the issues that hospitals, ambulance services, community, voluntary services and health care workers are facing; — Ireland is one of the few countries in the world to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: Commitments were given in the last two programmes for Government to introduce a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme. This was promised again by the Taoiseach's predecessor in advance of the introduction of the Covid vaccine programme. My engagement on this issue with Ministers for Health has been ongoing for the last 250 months, or over two decades. When will we see this compensation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: A couple of weeks ago at the Business Committee, I raised the issue of the sheep industry. As the Taoiseach knows, back in 2016, I secured the introduction of the sheep welfare scheme. Since then, income for sheep farmers has reduced by 550% according to Teagasc and fertiliser costs have gone up by a further 400%. Yet, we are introducing a paltry top-up of just 20% to that welfare scheme....

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: When the Taoiseach resumed his current role in December he announced that a unit would be set up within his Department to focus on reducing child poverty and improving well-being in order to make Ireland the best country in Europe in which to be a child. I believe it would help if we started by improving access to necessary therapies through primary care services, including occupational...

National Archives Act 1986 (Section 1(2)(d)) Order 2023: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this legislation. I wish to discuss the Irish Land Commission. Mr. Pat Shine, a neighbour of mine, came to see me in Leinster House recently. In his retirement, he has, unfortunately, been involved in the registration of bogs in County Roscommon. In the case of his family, 280 pages of documentation, including 96 different documents that had to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: The Estimates are too far away. Many front-line workers are getting no support from their employers or through the occupational system. For some front-line healthcare workers, the money will run out next June so money coming at the end of the year is no good. As I said, we are talking about, on a population basis, over 21,000 people who may be unfit to work due to long Covid. That...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: On 9 November, my colleagues and I in the Regional Group secured the unanimous support of this House for a motion on long Covid seeking immediate action because of the impact it is having on our health service. That includes studies such as the one published in the Irish Medical Journalin June 2021 which found that long Covid had a significant impact on our health system, particularly in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: No. I thank the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to assist private sector employers to support employees working from home and digital co-working hubs in local towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2048/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: We are running through questions at an awful rate. What are we doing to assist workers to work from home and in co-working hubs?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: The reason I tabled this question is that we are bringing fibre into homes, and that is very positive and it is happening throughout the country. However, there will be issues in terms of health and safety for employers, which is encouraging some employers to bring people back into the office. I think the solution to all this is a hybrid mechanism in order that people do not work at home on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: That is the very point I am making. I am not looking for any tariffs to be put up. Tariffs have not suited our economy. All we have to do is look at history to see that. One indigenous crop with huge potential is hemp. There are issues regarding the regulation and licensing of that in this country. I am talking about developing and supporting businesses in this country that are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to make grants available to SMEs to ensure 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. [2047/23]