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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (16 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: 242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to review the rates paid to providers under the ECCE scheme in light of the significant increase in operational costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22227/24]

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: Ireland has the highest incidence of rare disease in Europe. It is one in every 17 people, including all children with cancer. One of the critical tools in securing a diagnosis, and, as a result, a possible treatment, is genetic testing. However, when the Crumlin hospital relocates to the national children's hospital the genetics and genomics laboratory will be left behind. We have now...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Programme (30 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 561. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he intends to get Government approval to publish the Child Care (Amendment) Bill which completed PLS last June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18808/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Equipment (30 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of copper communication lines within his Department that are currently in active operation and for which his Department is paying for on a monthly basis, inclusive of ISDN, PTSN and copper-based lease lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18831/24]

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. They gave us powerful evidence about the challenges they are facing on a daily basis in providing full-time care for their disabled children. They spoke about the impact that the carer's allowance means test is having on them, on their families and on their caring roles. We need to work towards a financial system for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: No. Nowadays it is the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (7 Mar 2024)

Denis Naughten: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childminders that have responded to the public consultation on the draft childminding regulations; if he will list where this consultation has been advertised; the budget spent on public awareness to date; if he will outline the engagement to date in the drafting of the consultation document; and...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...the economic as well as the healthcare case. That is of importance and cannot be ignored. Some 37% of patients endure a gruelling five year quest to get diagnoses. Irish research reveals that children with rare diseases occupy hospital beds 25 times more than their peers; yet, our efforts to harness the potential through a national genomic strategy for genetics and genomic medicine has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied); will receive an appointment for assessment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7482/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...conditions are more common than any of us believe. Rare diseases include cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Huntington's disease, alongside most cancers, especially those affecting children. Rare diseases are collectively common and affect at least one in 17 people in Ireland, which equate to at least 300,000 people. This figure very likely underestimates the true...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...colleagues in Fine Gael will recall it - of driving from Meath to Leinster House. Driving towards Dublin on the M50 early in the morning, he saw in the lane beside him a woman in her car with her children in the back seat eating their breakfast. Those children, as John said, had probably got up an hour previously and would probably not arrive at their crèche in Dublin for another...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...of the forthcoming budget to ensure there are proportionate increases across family sizes. The changes to the working family payment in recent years discourage families with a larger number of children from participating in the workforce. It is not just the related immediate issues, including poverty, but there are also long-term social consequences. We ask the Minister to consider the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...working-age employment supports, we will move on to the next section, which deals with blindness, disability and carers. Are there any questions on those schemes? No. The next section concerns children. Are there any questions?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: Could we focus on children? We have already dealt with pensions.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: If there are no other questions on children, we will move on to supplementary payments, agencies and miscellaneous.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...in many streets. Disappointingly, there are many streets in Ireland on which you would want wellingtons to go around, with the amount of dog fouling. That is particularly so when you have young children because they will not avoid it. We talk about active travel and people getting out into the fresh air, yet on footpaths in our streets and on paths in our parks, every small child comes...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...stakeholder group. The first is that the issue of dog fouling should be included as part of the group's work programme. The second is that representatives of older people and the parents of young children are included in the group, so those voices can be represented. In many cases, they are the ones on the receiving end of this particular practice. If the Minister could address both of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...in place would not apply in these circumstances, as the legislative provisions that were in place have now been found to be unconstitutional. While this judgment only relates to the surviving parent of children, what is the position regarding the surviving cohabitant partner with no children? Does family, in terms of widows, now include situations where there is a fostering situation or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...charity work, particularly his work with today’s witnesses from St. Vincent de Paul. Paul was also a head steward at Sunshine House in Balbriggan, where he organised weeklong summer holidays for children aged between seven and ten from disadvantaged parts of Dublin and surrounding countries. He did this for years and brought many other civil servants on board. A friend recently...