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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2018
229. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the details of the requests from women for their slides from the cervical screening process by laboratory (details supplied). [47361/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2018
181. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not issued from the HSE regarding the number of reviews per laboratory (details supplied) in view of evidence provided to the Committee of Public Accounts on 10 November 2018. [47254/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2018
134. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of recent changes in the calculation of homeless numbers; the rationale behind all such changes; and his additional plans and schemes to deal with vulnerable homeless persons during the winter months. [47157/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 November 2018
121. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of successful applications for home loans under the Rebuilding Ireland scheme for first-time buyers; and the number that have applied for mortgages under this scheme to date. [47156/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
182. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance the companies and geographic sites involved in the category of mining and utilities sector that are liable to pay corporation tax; and if he will itemise the contribution to the overall figure from each of these companies. [46838/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
181. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if a figure (details supplied) in revenue from corporation taxes comes from the four commercial gas fields in Irish waters or from the entire category of mining and utilities sector. [46837/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
115. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will introduce measures to offer workers in defined benefit pension schemes adequate protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46891/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
113. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for legislation that will offer CIÉ workers and other semi-State workers protection on their pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46892/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
110. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take to ensure equality in the State pension (contributory) scheme; when pensioners affected by current rules can expect to see those measures enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46846/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
90. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislative measures she plans to prioritise to deal with bogus self-employment and related denials of workers' rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46847/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 November 2018
76. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the women affected by the gaps in the homemaker's scheme can expect to see the changes that will bring them in line with post-1994 women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46890/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2018
264. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when correspondence will issue to pensioners who have the State pension (contributory) to inform them of proposed changes; and if this will be expedited within the original timeframe [46170/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2018
78. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a protected disclosure is not being enacted (details supplied). [46293/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 November 2018
137. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 180 to 182, inclusive, of 3 October 2018, if clarification will be provided and the specific questions asked answered (details supplied). [46099/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 November 2018
83. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a protected disclosure regarding Waterford and Wexford Education Training Board; and the steps he will take to ensure the person is protected in this case (details supplied). [46079/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 November 2018
837. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the source and amount of biomass that Bord na Móna will import to co-fire the affected power stations that use peat production; the plans Bord na Móna has to source biomass in the period ahead to replace its ceased peat production; and the studies carried out on the projected CO2 emissions of this sourced biomass. [45402/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 November 2018
315. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the site visits to building sites for school projects conducted by his Department or by other agents on his behalf, specifically all visits to sites operated by a company (details supplied) since 2008; and the reports and or observations submitted as a result of these visits. [45129/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 November 2018
304. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the process under which a company (details supplied) received contracts to build schools from his Department; the procurement process used; the criteria for awarding the contracts; the officials within his Department who oversaw the process; if his Department was involved in the decision to award the contracts; if not, if the process was conducted by an external agency; and if so, the name of the agency and the process under which the agency was given oversight of the tendering process and awarding of contracts. [45070/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2018
19. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if the granting of section 481 status for film productions and his Department's role in sanctioning such production will be examined in view of concerns that budgets have been overestimated to avail of the scheme; the safeguards in place to ensure this does not happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39808/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2018
91. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if recent comments concerning circumstances in which some nursing staff may not be awarded the same increases offered to other public sector staff under the agreement to deal with pay inequality are accurate; the legislation under which such measures could be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43951/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2018
142. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if the situation at Linn Dara CAMHS in Cherry Orchard in relation to the operation of the service, reported staff shortages and reductions in bed capacity will be clarified. [43625/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2018
124. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if the laboratories in which the 221 cases of women given false negative results conducted by CervicalCheck are known to him, the HSE and CervicalCheck management; and if so, the reason this information has not been provided to this Deputy in view of numerous requests for same. [43627/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2018
108. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the location of the laboratories that conducted the tests on the 221 women identified to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43623/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2018
106. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a protected disclosure by staff at Harold's Cross Hospice; his role in such cases; and if the governance and management of the hospice in relation to public funding and industrial relations with staff will be examined. [43624/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 October 2018
71. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve general practitioner coverage nationally in view of the strain that the proposed legislation on abortion rights will put on general practitioners and access for women nationally. [43626/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
157. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the laboratories involved in testing the smear tests of the 221 women involved in the audit. [42620/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
66. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if a meeting between a group (details supplied) and the new Garda Commissioner will be facilitated to discuss disclosure of all relevant information on the deaths of their loved ones. [42447/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
63. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if an investigation into the death in direct provision of a person (details supplied) will be commissioned; the circumstances in which the person was accommodated; if the reason the person was placed in a male provision centre will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
52. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason no public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) has commenced; his plans to commission one; and when he expects a GSOC report on this case to be completed. [42446/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
10. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take to end the direct provision system; and his views on recent reports regarding the number of children in the direct provision system. [42443/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2018
4. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions he plans to take to ensure accountability and transparency in An Garda Síochána on foot of the Charleton report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42707/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 October 2018
524. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if there is a legal aspect of the microchip legislation under review; if so, the detail of same; and the cause, possible implications and proposed timeframe involved until the issue is resolved. [41898/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 October 2018
523. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if he will expand on the term "available evidence" which he stated in his reply indicates a very high level of compliance with the microchip legislation; if his attention has been drawn to the feedback from rescue groups that there is an extremely low level of compliance with microchipping legislation; and if he will clarify the source and the extent of the available evidence. [41897/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 October 2018
387. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will ask HIQA to investigate the misdiagnosed slides of the 221 women involved in the CervicalCheck scandal; and if this investigation will identify the laboratories involved and the cause of the errors committed in these laboratories. [41940/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2018
241. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment made by Tusla for fostering is not taken into account when means testing a foster parent's entitlement to social welfare payments; and the support available when the only payment entering such a household is the Tusla foster care allowance and child benefit allowance. [41446/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2018
240. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments or supports available for a foster parent who fosters young children and who as a consequence is not available to seek full-time work and thus will not qualify for jobseeker's allowance. [41445/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2018
187. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contingency plans in the event that the remaining bid for the national broadband plan is deemed untenable by the procurement team or otherwise becomes inoperable; the estimated costs of the NBP; the cost to date of the tendering process undertaking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41487/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2018
34. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the formal or informal discussions he has had with representatives of the remaining consortium competing for the national broadband plan. [41214/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2018
22. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the procurement team will announce its decision on the remaining bid for the national broadband plan, NBP; the way in which this procurement process can have competitive tension with just one bidder; if it remains open to the team to reject this bid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41215/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
532. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 27 September 2018, the 30 sites referred to as projects supported by the local infrastructure housing activation fund by county, in tabular form. [40921/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
531. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number who have been granted the requested loan; and the counties in which these applicants reside, in tabular form. [40920/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
519. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the circumstances that gave rise to the delay in finishing social housing projects connected with a company (details supplied); his plans to finish these units; and if a vulture fund is involved in the debt problems at the construction firm. [40621/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
509. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the circumstances that gave rise to the delays in construction of social houses at a company (details supplied); the way in which tenders were awarded to a firm that had significant debt; if a vulture fund is involved, the person or body from which that fund acquired the original debt; and the steps being taken to remedy the situation. [40622/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
492. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews and appeals of decisions to refuse carer's allowance that were successful with the application being subsequently approved in each year since 2010. [40939/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
491. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for carer's allowance refused on an initial application and before a review or appeal of that decision took place in each year since 2010. [40938/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
490. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions and-or penalties applied to jobseekers on foot of information supplied by JobPath providers since the commencement of the JobPath programme by year in tabular form. [40937/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
489. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions and-or penalties applied to the benefits of jobseekers applied in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [40936/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
297. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 165, 166 and 171 of 26 September 2018, if he will answer the specific questions (details supplied) contained in the original questions which to date his reply did not answer. [40928/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2018
57. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if NAMA has interests, current or historical, in lands or debts connected to the current difficulties of a company (details supplied); and the detail of these interests and transactions, including dealings connected with the company or other companies. [40796/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2018
182. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will instruct or recommend that HIQA investigate fully the incident of self-harm at Clontarf Hospital; and, if so, if the investigation will ensure that the hospital meets all national guidelines and standards relating to the care of patients with psychiatric illnesses in their care and the manner in which staff were dealt with by management, including a report that staff were forced under threat of disciplinary action to change their statements regarding this incident, is examined. [40201/18]