Results 121-140 of 1,159 for long speaker:Denis Naughten

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

Denis Naughten: ...witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against a person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise...

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

Denis Naughten: ...physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise engage...

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

Denis Naughten: ...concerned about this matter. We do not want to see people working and investing money in a pension pot that is only being used to fund the fees and the operation of that fund rather than actually delivering long-term pensions. What are the models out there that can deliver what we want to see happening in an effective manner without excessive charges being imposed on the customer?

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the €2.2 million allocated for the development of long-Covid services in 2022 that was spent exclusively on long-Covid services; the allocation drawn down by each clinic to date in 2022; the respective period of operation of each clinic; the number of new patients and recurring patients treated to date; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 316. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 15 September 2022, the number of full-time posts allocated to post-acute and long-Covid clinics by clinic and speciality; if the position has been filled; if an offer has been made, if a recruitment competition is ongoing and or if the HSE recruitment process has commenced in light of emerging evidence on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 330. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 15 September 2022, the number of full-time posts allocated to post-acute and long-Covid clinics, by clinic and speciality; if the position has been filled; if an offer has been made; if a recruitment competition is ongoing; if the HSE recruitment process has commenced in view of the emerging evidence on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 322. To ask the Minister for Health further to the response of An Taoiseach to questions on promised legislation on 30 November 2022 regarding the long-Covid clinic at the Mater Hospital, the current status of the clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62911/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: According to a survey which I commissioned from Ireland Thinks, there are 230,000 people in Ireland who are suffering from conditions associated with long Covid, yet we have failed to establish a network of clinics to treat patients that has been promised for the last 15 months. It is now taking more than a year for people to access the long Covid clinic at St. Vincent's University Hospital,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against a person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...their own property and not having to pay either rent or a mortgage once they retire is far less than for those who will retire in the next 20 years, for argument's sake. If we are looking at a long-term retirement plan, that needs to be reflected in the overall costings and capacity for people to service that element of housing on retirement. The answer to the Deputy's question is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...witnesses who are physically present or who give evidence within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in any way that makes him, her or it identifiable, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...of the CWO. It is not only an arm of the Department of Social Protection. It is supposed to deal with housing issues in situations, for example when the alternative is for people to go into long-term nursing home care because they do not have the resources to meet the top-up payment to carry out adaptations to the house. Housing accommodation - not white goods and furniture - was always...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to include carer’s benefit in the long-term payments included in bilateral social security agreements with certain countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60710/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...a 90 million ha maritime resource off our coast - nearly three times the landmass of Germany - providing us with the potential to develop 70 GW of offshore renewable electricity. That is enough capacity, not only to meet our own long-term needs here in Ireland but also to meet the long-term needs of France and Austria. The Atlantic interconnector must only be the first step. We need a...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...a 90 million ha maritime resource off our coast - nearly three times the landmass of Germany - providing us with the potential to develop 70 GW of offshore renewable electricity. That is enough capacity, not only to meet our own long-term needs here in Ireland but also to meet the long-term needs of France and Austria. The Atlantic interconnector must only be the first step. We need a...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...assistant supervisors. The same provisions should be made for Tús supervisors, rural social scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors. We should not force those cohorts of supervisors to go through the same long and protracted Labour Court negotiations to end up with the same result at some stage down the road. More and more of those staff are coming close to retirement and the...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...“bacteriological,”.”. I will speak to amendments Nos. 5 and 6 because they are the same. I do not wish to tick tack back and forth on the same set of amendments. I tabled amendments Nos. 5 and 6 on the issue of long Covid, about which I spoke at length during Second Stage of the Bill. I want to see long Covid designated as an occupational illness for all...