145. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will support a legislative proposal to implement an outright ban on LNGs in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10273/22]
143. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the yearly funding available for the recently announced retrofitting scheme in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 of €267 million, €291 million and €380 million can be increased to a yearly average of €1 billion if the funds are used or run out as a result of uptake, inflation or capacity issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10276/22]
77. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her plans in relation to the television licence; if the collection of the licence fee will be moved from An Post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10454/22]
18. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if a decision has been made by the Government in relation to alternative funding for public service broadcasting or the future of the television licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10455/22]
756. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the establishment of a working group under the joint auspices of the national dementia office and the Integrated Care Programme to determine the needs and solutions to provide persons with Huntington’s disease and their families with a good standard of care in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9390/22]
604. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a company (details supplied) was awarded the contract for provision of SafePass online for SOLAS; when the newly awarded contractor for online SafePass provision will begin online renewals for SafePass; if the same consumer cost savings available in the UK, currently £36, will be passed on to workers requiring online SafePass renewals here which currently cost €200; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9437/22]
374. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 15 February 2022, the way that suitability is determined regarding accommodation; the way that bed space numbers are determined in a dwelling; if there are any guidelines or regulations on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9824/22]
161. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 15 February 2022, the way that the additional funding in the recently announced plans will be spent given that these figures reference a €1 billion a year spend while the figures in the reply reference projected spending of less than half that; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9870/22]
320. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the expected BER rating standard for the completed building of the new national maternity hospital; the difference between such a rating and a near zero rating in terms of energy efficiency; if this is in conflict with EU regulations relating to new public buildings; if current planning permission allows a build to such a standard; the estimated cost of any upgrade or change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8954/22]
249. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the upset and distress that persons who have been in Ireland for over five years in the international protection system that received their final decision in 2019 and 2020 will not be included in the undocumented scheme; if she will reconsider their exclusion and make the scheme truly inclusive by widening the parameters in order that they and other cohorts can be included; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8837/22]
248. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider including persons whose EU treaty rights visas have been revoked and who are now living here on precarious temporary visas in the undocumented scheme; if she will acknowledge their contributions in areas such as healthcare, hospitality, information technology, transport and engineering and their deep disappointment at not being included in the undocumented scheme; her views on the fact that many of this cohort arrived legally and have lived here for many years and deserve to be included in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8834/22]
238. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify details in relation to the way that the once-off transition fund will work for community after-school projects and in particular services in Dublin 8 (details supplied); if it will be based on the employment wage subsidy scheme model; the way that the core funding will work; the expected criteria for core funding; the meaning of based on capacity rather than attendance in relation to core funding; if the service will continue to receive individual payments for children through the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8828/22]
220. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify the allocation of SNAs for 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8826/22]
200. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in relation to the RTÉ pension scheme; if he plans to sanction a rise for pensioners whose pensions have been frozen since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8950/22]
186. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport the position in relation to bus services provided by a company (details supplied) operating in Dublin; the routes which currently operate reduced services that is, Saturday schedules from Monday to Friday; the length of time this has been happening; the actual amount of the reduction in scheduled departures compared to a regular service on these routes; and the reason for reduced services given the lifting of other restrictions due to Covid-19 [8951/22]
171. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport the reason that motorcycle tests are taking much longer to obtain than car driving tests (details supplied); the steps that his Department is taking to speed up the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8829/22]
85. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if Ireland will oppose or support proposals to include gas and nuclear projects in the EU taxonomy as suggested by the EU Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8586/22]
84. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance the amount raised by the Exchequer in each of the years since 2010 by the application of VAT on home energy heating bills, that is, electricity and gas; the projected figures, if actual figures are not available, for VAT returns from the rising bills over recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8583/22]
60. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the previously available scheme for deep retrofitting administered by the SEAI had a limit on the percentage allocation to work being carried out, that is, if the previous scheme only allowed for 25% of the funding to a deep retrofit or in which funds matched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8636/22]
59. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of the projected funding of €1 billion per year to the energy efficiency home-retro fitting programmes to 2030 that will come from central Exchequer funding or funds from the application of the carbon tax or any other source; and if a breakdown of the projected funding streams can be provided. [8635/22]
58. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if clarification will be provided on the newly announced SEAI grants for energy efficiency and retrofitting of homes. [8634/22]
657. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS or other HSE staff currently redeployed from CHO7 to other duties including assessment of needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7510/22]
656. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in the CAMHS services across the State who are not currently in service but who are absent from work; the number who are on voluntary long-term leave career or other break, on sick leave, who are suspended or on administrative leave or who are currently redeployed to other services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7509/22]
655. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of staff currently working in CAMHS services in each of the CHO regions; and the details of those staff working in the disciplines recommended in A Vision for Change. [7508/22]
654. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the action that was taken by his Department or the relevant official that was notified in the case of each of the protected disclosures concerning the CAMHS services in each CHO region concerned since the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 was passed by year and each CHO region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7507/22]
653. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures submitted to him or a relevant official concerning the CAMHS services in each CHO region concerned since the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 was passed by year and each CHO region in tabular form. [7506/22]
386. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the protections and rights of a tenant whose landlord is initiating an eviction on grounds (details supplied); the person or the regulation that determines suitability; the rights that a tenant has to appeal such grounds to the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8335/22]
364. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the State’s social housing stock according to the BER rating allocated by each county and local authority area in tabular form. [8014/22]
363. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total spending by his Department allocated to local authorities or any other body for retrofitting social housing stock since 2010 to date; the total funding to approved housing bodies for the same purpose, that is retrofitting or any scheme that increases energy efficiency and so on; and if the funding is allocated under just one scheme or funding stream. [8013/22]
270. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if a business (details supplied) which diversified during the pandemic in an effort to remain solvent can access the employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8262/22]
216. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the total funding allocated to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland from 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the projection for the coming years by each category and each scheme operated by the SEAI in tabular form. [8012/22]
198. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if support is available to a business in view of the circumstances outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8262/22]
123. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will commission a full inquiry into deaths in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic in view of calls for such an inquiry among many relatives, representative groups and a similar call by the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7961/22]
69. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of children who needed hospital treatment as a result of contracting Covid-19; the measures he is taking to deal with the long-term effects on children form the virus specifically, the research and long-term studies of effects and numbers affected and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7962/22]
161. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is necessary to review the Food Strategy for 2030 in view of Ireland’s emission reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61544/21]
148. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if workers at an organisation (details supplied) will be included in the Covid recognition payment given that they meet the criteria being reviewed by his Department in view of an email from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6913/22]
661. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if social care workers who have provided essential frontline care at considerable risk to their own health during the pandemic to children, persons with disabilities and those at risk (details supplied) will be included in the recently announced €1,000 bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6094/22]
421. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will address a series of matters in relation to the amalgamation of three schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6248/22]
385. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions that are being taken to help the populace of Afghanistan as they continue to face the most horrendous conditions including starvation and extreme poverty with many resorting to selling body organs or children to secure food for their families; the actions that are being taken at European Union level to ensure immediate aid is delivered; the role that Ireland is playing in urging other nations to intervene; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6603/22]
374. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide information (details supplied) in relation to the gathering at his Department regarding the United Nations Security Council vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6249/22]
329. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a commitment will be made that the report of the independent working group on defective homes will be completed by the end of March 2022; if he will act promptly and decisively on the report recommendations; if he will provide tax credits in Budget 2023 for owner-occupiers of defective apartments and duplexes who have paid or are currently paying levies for the remediation of defects in their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6584/22]
312. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a housing body (details supplied) and its complex at Ballinteer was provided with funding streams by the State which would allow it to set rents for tenants that are not governed by the differential rent setting used by the local authority or to clarify the method of rent setting that is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6252/22]
311. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a tenant of an approved housing body having been housed from the local authority waiting lists can be charged a rent or face a rent increase based on reference to rent pressure zones and the percentage increases that apply to them rather than their actual income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6251/22]
310. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if approved housing bodies are permitted to raise rents in areas in line with rent pressure zones and not by having regard to their tenant's actual income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6250/22]
224. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport the status of the signing of a statutory instrument to allow for improvements in the regular wages scheme for CIÉ workers; and when this statutory instrument can be expected to be finalised. [6247/22]
223. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will request that the NTA provide an explanation for the current system on certain Dublin Bus routes whereby buses are expected to align with pre-ordained timing points at each stop on their route; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such a system essentially demands buses are driven at extremely low speeds or stop at every stop for several minutes to align with the timing required and that this is due to the fact the timing is benchmarked against expected high traffic volumes and busy passenger boarding; if his attention has also been drawn to the fact that this system designed by the NTA is not resulting in an improved public transport experience by bus users in Dublin and that the system seems to apply only to certain Dublin Bus operated routes and not to routes operated by a company (details supplied) resulting in significant fines to Dublin Bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6246/22]
222. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport the amount spent on the Dublin BusConnects project to date in each year since 2017; the breakdown of the consultancy fees, engineering and other survey costs connected with the planning stages of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6245/22]
221. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport the number of vehicles in the bus fleet for Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to date in 2022; and the expected numbers for the coming period. [6244/22]
25. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6405/22]