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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: The numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: Reading between the lines here, Mr. Kennedy is saying that this will require an upfront capital investment from the State to put the overall structure in place if we are not going to use individual contributors’ funds to put a structure in place and then, over time, that the State would get its return back through that fee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: There is one other factor in that regard, which is participation rates. This comes back to the broader issue where we were talking about gender earlier on. While the projections of the ESRI in that study were that participation rates would increase minimally over time, we have seen during lockdown and the Covid-19 period that there was a 2% increase in participation rates in this country,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank all of our witnesses for their evidence here today and for their positive engagement with the committee, which was very interesting and useful. The committee will shortly in private session discuss our future consideration of the submissions which are before us and the oral evidence we have heard. We are anxious to make a submission to the Government on this proposed legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: That concludes the committee’s business for today. The committee now stands adjourned until next Wednesday, 25 January, when we will continue our discussion on the auto-enrolment Bill with IBEC and the ESRI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: Before the witnesses finish giving their evidence, I will ask a couple of questions relating to their international experience. They have obviously looked at what is happening elsewhere. In the context of the gender differential, is there a model in place at present that would be effective in dealing with that? The witnesses referred to speed when establishing a fund and that New Zealand...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that he has to increase supports for those with special educational needs sitting the driver theory test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 415. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency co-ordination working group held its last meeting; if he will call an emergency meeting of the working group in view of the impending serious flooding in the Shannon catchment area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1654/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the present discharge rate of water from Lough Derg via Parteen weir; and the corresponding discharge from Ardnacrusha Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 417. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 10 November 2022, if he will outline the conclusions drawn from his engagement with the OPW on the outcome of the legal analysis of the current regulatory environment regarding the management of the River Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the terms and conditions of the tenant purchase scheme to include income from the rural social scheme when purchasing a rural local authority house now that the six-year time limit has been removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to establish a national voluntary redeployment panel for teachers who wish to transfer which would allow them to keep their permanent status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review State examination accommodations for students with dyspraxia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1922/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 15 December 2022, if she will provide updated figures on the claimants in each time period; the number of EIB claims received and the individuals claiming EIB up to the end of September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of illness benefit and disability allowance, respectively, due to long-Covid; her plans to consider long-Covid as an occupational illness for front-line workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1153. To ask the Minister for Health further to his response to questions on promised legislation on 30 November 2022 regarding the long-Covid clinic at the Mater Hospital, the current status of the clinic. [62909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1243. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department is taking to secure dental services for medical card holders in counties Roscommon and Galway; the services that are available to patients who cannot find a local dentist to avail of the dental treatment services scheme; when the current scheme will be replaced with a fit-for-purpose scheme; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in counties Roscommon and Galway which have ceased providing medical card services to persons with disabilities in the past five years; the medical card dental services that are currently available to adult persons with disabilities; the provision that is in place for those whose local dentist withdraws from the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in counties Roscommon and Galway which have ceased providing medical card services in the past five years; the medical card dental services currently available to medical card users; the provision that is in place for those whose local dentist withdraws from the provision of medical card services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1336. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63861/22]