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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI (30 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I missed the earlier part of Ms Nelson’s contribution because I was at another meeting. I welcome her to the committee. What she outlined in her opening contribution is very important. She reinforced the need for investment in the work of grassroots organisations working with marginalised women and the voluntary and community sector, and we all endorse that. It is critical that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Unfortunately, the security situation worldwide has deteriorated drastically since 2022 and, of course, our country is not immune from those difficulties and those challenges. We never pay enough tribute to the work of the emergency services in this country, including how they protected us and our State during a very troubled era. I am thinking of An...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with defence will next meet. [23693/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: As the Taoiseach knows, Louth-Cavan-Monaghan Garda Division has a long land Border with the neighbouring jurisdiction and this creates additional and unique policing demands on the gardaí in our area. For a number of years, I have continually expressed my concerns that, with resignations and retirements, we are not getting nearly enough of the new Garda recruits into our division. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (29 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that there is proper consultation with all stakeholders when consideration is being given to amendments to the Open Seasons Order; if he will ensure that mechanisms are put in place in his Department to meet such commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland (29 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all formal requests from An Garda Síochána and the Government since 2021 for intelligence and other co-operation from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom authorities relating to bombings in this jurisdiction in 1972 and 1973 have been fully facilitated; if An Garda Síochána is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23969/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Culls (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that persons licensed to cull deer will be able to continue such services and that such licences will not just be made available to large-scale operators and exclude one-person licensed services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23719/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Nature Advisory Committee, as recommended in the 2021 Review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, will be established; the reason such a delay has occurred in establishing this committee which can provide a structured forum for consultation with stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in establishing a sustainable hunting of wild birds stakeholder forum; the timeline for its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24101/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is proposed to re-establish the Firearms Consultative Panel to ensure a structured forum for regular and inclusive engagement between policymakers and organisations representing firearms users; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24103/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the new childminding regulations will be published; the proposed implementation date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24098/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that medication as recommended by Children's Health Ireland will be made available at an early date for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23723/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (28 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Health if the reason private health insurance companies only cover the cost of a stay in psychiatric hospitals for maximum 100 days with unwell and vulnerable patients in the middle of a treatment plan having to be discharged on the 100th day will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23750/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome Minister Rabbitte's recent announcement about a waiting list initiative for assessments of need and the procurement of private assessments. I sincerely hope those assessments can be carried out as quickly as possible. We are all well aware that there have been totally unacceptable delays for many years in children getting assessments of need and follow-up therapies. We must...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his detailed reply. I again acknowledge the efforts he and his ministerial colleagues have made in getting the message out that this money is available and there is a simple and speedy application process. Quite rightly, the areas of retail and hospitality were identified for particular assistance. I have recently been engaging considerably with small-scale...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister. I repeat my request that he make a particular appeal to the finance houses to support small and medium sized enterprises, because they are not doing so adequately at the moment. I am very glad that the Minister mentioned workspaces and enterprise centres. For years, I have been tabling parliamentary questions to the Minister’s predecessors in regard to the need...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each of Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Roscommon, Galway and Mayo that registered for the increased cost of business grant before 1 May 2024; how many more in each county have registered since the application process reopened last week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23086/24]