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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. For 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education an increase of €113 million and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 2023, €2.6 billion was spent on special education and further progress will be made this year as an additional €113 million will be dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream classes;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education, an increase of €113 million, and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This includes funding to support children with special educational needs in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. For 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education, an increase of €113 million, and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This will allow for, amongst other things, the opening of up to 400 new special classes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. For 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education an increase of €113 million and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This will allow for, amongst other things, the opening of up to 400 new special classes in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Details of the 2024 Summer Programme were published on 21 March 2024. The Department of Education also recently announced that funding of €40 million has been secured again to ensure that a comprehensive summer programme will be available in 2024. This builds on the successful summer programmes of the last three years. The full funding of €40 million is available and, as in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...with more complex needs require additional supports, special classes and special school places are provided. In 2024, €2.7 billion is being spent on special education, an increase of €113 million, and this is dedicated to providing supports for children with special educational needs. This will allow for, amongst other things, the opening of up to 400 new special classes in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (9 Apr 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1340 to 1345, inclusive, and 1347 together. Encouraging mothers to breastfeed is a priority, both for the Department of Health and for the HSE National health policy, including the Healthy Ireland Framework, Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan, the National Maternity Strategy, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan, and the National Cancer Strategy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...the Department and legislation in that regard will be going through the Houses of the Oireachtas. I welcome the views of members in that regard. When Healthy Ireland was set up back in 2015, it had a budget of €5 million. In the most recent budget, I secured an additional €2.3 million for the programme. To date, we have a budget of €16.3 million for Healthy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The budget extends beyond €16.3 million and that is just for Healthy Ireland. We have a health and well-being programme as well, Safefood Ireland and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland so calculating the total spend is difficult. Let us consider Healthy Ireland alone. It started with a budget of €5 million and now has over €16 million. Plus, I secured extra funding...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Minister and thank the Chair for his questions. As regards obesity, from a prevention point of view, Healthy Ireland was established in 2017 and its budget was €5 million. Today, in budget 2024, it is in excess of €16 million, so there is a big emphasis on this. We have many public engagement campaigns on obesity. One is the Healthy Weight campaign. It was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (30 Nov 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...inflationary costs on services. In February this year one off funding was announced for providers of health related community and voluntary services. Most drug and alcohol projects were awarded a one off 3.5% increase or a minimum of €1000. Further information on the scheme and the list of organisations benefitting is in the link:...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to appear before select committee as it considers this request for a Supplementary Estimate. I am here on behalf of the Taoiseach. A €4.5 million Supplementary Estimate is requested for Vote 5, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. A technical Supplementary Estimate of €1,000 must also be requested for the Department...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: No. On the breakdown, approximately 35% of the fees paid out relate to the Central Criminal Court. The Circuit Court accounts for 44%, with half of this relating to the Dublin Circuit Court and the balance to the country Circuit Courts. The balance breaks down as follows: hearings before the High Court and Supreme Court, 10%, before the Court of Appeal, 6%, and before the Special Criminal...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...insurance. I will start with an overview of the market and the risk equalisation scheme. Currently, 46.8% of the population in Ireland hold private health insurance. This amounts to 2.48 million people and represents a total annual premium income of approximately €3.18 billion. Health insurance in Ireland is provided according to four principles: open enrolment, lifetime...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...Government’s commitment to ensuring that our health services are well funded. Over the past three years, the Government has delivered record investment in healthcare. The Government’s €22.5 billion health budget for 2024 is the biggest ever and will facilitate the continued delivery and expansion of quality, affordable healthcare services. This funding equates to a...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...for this Government. A key element of this approach is our healthy Ireland framework, at the core of which is the healthy Ireland fund. Established in 2017 with an initial annual budget of €5 million, the fund is used to support our partners, including include Departments and agencies, NGOs, community organisations and 31 local authorities, in delivering programmes focused on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (21 Sep 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...interagency action and supporting evidence-informed approaches to addressing substance use in local communities. The Network of 24 Drug and Alcohol Task Forces receive in the region of €29 million in annual funding from the Department and the HSE of which the North East Task Force receives €937,813. In August I announced recurring annual funding of €3.5 million to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 971 and 976 together. I recently announced €3.5 million in annual funding to maintain existing level of drugs and inclusion health services provided by community and voluntary organisations. The funding is recurring. gov.ie - Minister Naughton announces additional annual funding of €3.5 million for drugs and inclusion health services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Jun 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: First 5 is Ireland’s first ever cross-departmental strategy to support babies, young children and their families. The ambitious ten-year plan will deliver a broader range of options for parents to balance working and caring and a new model of parenting support. In line with the principles set out in Sláintecare, and the First 5 Whole of Government Strategy for Babies, Young...