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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2018
341. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) is one of those cases that may have been classified incorrectly on the Garda PULSE system. [12373/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2018
111. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce tax relief for trade union members on union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12816/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2018
15. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel over 66 years of age who have had reductions in the Army pension when they reach the age to draw the State pension (contributory). [12620/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2018
14. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of retired Defence Forces personnel with more than 31 years of service drawing a pension from the Defence Forces. [12619/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2018
13. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason members of the Defence Forces who have served the country for more than 31 years face a reduction in their pension entitlements when they come to the age for drawing the State pension (contributory); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12618/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2018
Bill entitled an Act to disincentivise employers from entering into bogus contracts for services, to prohibit dismissals in order to induce workers to enter into contracts for services, to prohibit misrepresenting employment as a contract for services, to prohibit false inducements for contract for services, to provide for a right to redress for workers party to a bogus contract for services and for claims to be heard under the Workplace Relations Act 2015, to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2018
240. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times since the introduction of the development application tracking system in the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, that planning permission has been granted to develop a built structure in an area which is a designated area. [10334/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2018
199. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Bus has removed its city centre discount fare; if this decision was made by Dublin Bus or by the National Transport Authority; if he was notified of this move; the way in which such a step is in keeping with stated policy of encouraging persons to use public transport especially in city centre areas suffering from heavy congestion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10372/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
583. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget for climate action since 2016 in his Department; and the specific capital investment programmes that have been funded by his Department or other departments under climate action in each of these years. [9736/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
582. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposed spend under Project Ireland 2040 for climate action measures from his Department; the specific projects envisioned under climate action in the plan; and the breakdown of funding for these between State and private investment. [9735/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
427. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 809 of 16 January 2018, the number of locum clinical staff in general who were not qualified for their position; the number of locum staff who do not meet the criteria for filling the post they are covering on a permanent basis; the number of locum positions there have been over the past ten years; the periods of time and the proportion of this time that locum consultant child psychiatrists have not been on the specialist register for child psychiatry; when the current locums applied for inclusion on the specialist register; and the outcome of same. [9553/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
328. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to open a Garda station in the Cherrywood area of Dublin; and the details of those plans. [9608/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
198. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the refurbishment of the Stepaside Garda station; and the timeframe for its opening. [9737/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
88. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the proposed breakdown of the number of private, for profit and speculatively built homes to be built under the Project Ireland 2040 development plan; the number to be built by local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9720/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 February 2018
87. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the criteria that local authorities will apply in operating the new home loan scheme announced under Rebuilding Ireland; the funding available for this scheme; the projected number of loans that will be issued under the scheme over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9719/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
593. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason Irish Water is reported to be refusing to undertake responsibility for works that are concerned with surface level water management. [8134/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
592. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the functions and operations that are the remit and responsibility of Irish Water. [8133/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
79. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to address the long wait for persons that are awaiting social welfare appeals; and the way in which she plans to reduce the waiting period. [8437/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
73. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person with less than 520 contributions will benefit from the new rules on contributory pensions and the revamped homemaker's scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8435/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
56. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposed legislation on pension schemes will benefit persons in CIÉ or a company (details supplied) that faces threats to its pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8436/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
48. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she plans to take on foot of the recent ERSI report which shows increased poverty among lone parents and those with disabilities. [8438/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 February 2018
42. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislative proposals she plans to introduce to address abuses of workers' rights in relation to bogus self employment, especially in the construction industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8439/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2018
223. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason audits (details supplied) have not been published; if he will provide copies of these audits; and when the audit will be made publicly available. [8014/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2018
56. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which funding under the national development plan will be used for public transport; if the threat to some rail routes and the continued lack of investment in the western rail corridor will be addressed in that plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7717/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2018
13. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with workers' representatives in Irish Rail or Bus Éireann on the ongoing issues at those companies following recent disputes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7718/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
72. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the new applications to his Department that are pending a decision or for which a decision has been made for a licence, undertaking or lease for the exploration and so on of petroleum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7483/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
71. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to commission a study to examine the feasibility of the re-nationalisation of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7480/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
47. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the input his Department has had in the framing of the national development plan with regard to ensuring the viability of the rural post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
36. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department has taken or will take in the future to ensure that companies competing for State procurement of services, such as the national broadband plan, do not collude with each other in the bidding and competitive tendering process to the detriment of the State's finances; the penalties a company might incur if found to have engaged in such collusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7482/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
34. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request a review of the commitment contract his Department has with a company (details supplied) relating to the 300,000 homes removed from the NBP in view of that company's withdrawal from the NBP competition; if this contract can be revoked by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7479/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2018
22. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the vote in Dáil Éireann on the Petroleum and other Minerals Development (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2017, if no further licences, undertakings or leases for fossil fuel exploration will be awarded until the issues are dealt with at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7712/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2018
59. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health his plans to retain and recruit front-line staff in the health services, including nurses; the number of nursing staff needed in public national hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6283/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 February 2018
53. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the steps he will to take to ensure the Citizens' Assembly recommendation regarding the availability of contraceptives is implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6282/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 February 2018
221. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to end pay inequality in the teaching profession in view of the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retainment; the timeframe in which he expects to achieve equal pay for equal work for all teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5983/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 February 2018
220. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials will meet with the parents and teachers of a school (details supplied) to discuss the crisis in facilities and capacity facing the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5982/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 February 2018
189. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a decision (details supplied) by the Workplace Relations Commission that SOLAS discriminated on the grounds of age against one of its employees. [5532/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 January 2018
67. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons joining local authority housing lists nationally in 2017; and when the volume of house building by public and approved housing bodies can be expected to deal with the waiting lists in view of the numbers in need of housing. [4582/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 January 2018
61. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the proposed home loan schemes and affordable purchase scheme will impact on the present housing crisis in view of the average industrial earnings of most persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4581/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 January 2018
598. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the estimated number of persons due to retire in coming years that will be in receipt of a reduced contributory pension as a result of the new calculation method announced on 23 January 2018; and the estimated amount of the reduction in pension for those persons. [4212/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 January 2018
239. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 16 January 2018, the number of students that reside in or attended a primary school in Dublin 8 that have been offered places in the new school in Sandymount; and the number of students taking up places that reside in or attended a primary school in Dublin 8, by area and specifically Inchicore. [4270/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 January 2018
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the amendment of the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960, to ensure regard is had to national and global environmental considerations including the annual average global temperature, the monthly mean level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and other matters, when issuing licences, undertakings and leases under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 January 2018
186. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to changes being made to the proposed timing of the handover of Dublin Bus routes to a company (details supplied); if this is now taking place sooner than originally suggested; if so, the reason for the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3748/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 January 2018
28. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the detention of Palestinian children and teenagers by the Israeli authorities with Israeli representatives here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3653/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 January 2018
118. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 5 is due to close on 31 January 2018 due to a lack of funds; and if the necessary funds will be made available to retain this community information resource for the area. [3595/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 January 2018
27. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures he plans to take to ensure personnel are recruited and retained in all grades of the Defence Forces in view of the prevalence of low pay, poor conditions and the numbers qualifying for FIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3369/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 January 2018
6. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will re-examine operations by the Defence Forces which support or interact with Libyan military or coastguard forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3370/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 January 2018
634. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of all voids brought back into use in 2017; the length of time the homes were void by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2970/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 January 2018
633. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 17,916 HAP tenancies signed in 2017 that are still in existence and the number broken by landlords, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 January 2018
632. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 910 Rental Accommodation Scheme contracts signed in 2017 that were renewed contracts and new contracts, respectively, for existing Rental Accommodation Scheme tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2968/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 January 2018
631. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the length of time of the leases for the 798 houses leased for social housing in 2017; the unit cost of these leases per month, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/18]