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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: At the end of the week an announcement will be made by NASRA, which is a branch of the PNA, on the future days of action it will be taking and that will include a two-day continuous strike. Without the Government wishing to give itself more grief on the question of the health service, this dispute could be ended simply and without costing anyone a penny, except for the paramedics and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: Not true. It has at least 500 members.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Government will not recognise this group. That is a statement from the Government, not the HSE, and the Minister will be held to it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget and spending of his Department in order to secure UN Security Council membership over the past period. [3772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the NPWS has investigated solutions other than culling to address the overpopulation of the Phoenix Park deer herd; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4268/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the management at the Coombe hospital followed the guidelines in the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 for a diagnosis and subsequent treatment of a fatal foetal abnormality or life threatening condition in the case recently highlighted; and if matters (details supplied) will be clarified. [3818/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Witness Protection Programme (30 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his officials will meet with a State witness of a murder trial to discuss the person's concerns about the witness protection programme and the person's ongoing concerns for the person's safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4380/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (30 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the family of a person (details supplied) killed in a hit and run incident to discuss concerns regarding the conduct of Garda investigations into the case and their request for a public inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4379/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: I would like to focus first on the now redundant Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care, of which my colleague, Deputy Gino Kenny, was a member. The committee identified that the problem in CAMHS stems from the lack of early intervention, early diagnosis and early assessment. All of us have dealt with cases involving parents who are concerned for their children at an early age...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (31 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the final cost of submitting the scheme for planning on the Mater Hospital site in respect of the new national children's hospital (details supplied). [4786/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (31 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if the brief changed from that in the first planning application for the Mater Hospital site in respect of the new national children's hospital; if so, the way in which it did; and the person or body responsible for the preparation of the brief and its subsequent changes. [4787/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (31 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a contract with a company (details supplied) for the new national children's hospital was not a fixed price contract. [4788/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure Provision (31 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if the practice of agreeing large infrastructural projects such as the national children's hospital without a fixed price is standard; and if other large health projects are conducted in a similar manner. [4789/19]

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: There must be some logic behind any scheme of this nature. I have looked for the logic behind the comprehensive JobPath scheme. Having done so and listened to the evidence presented to the joint committee and considered the relevant statistics, it appears that the whole project is based on the belief that the problem with unemployment is unemployed people. Having come through the 2008...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Trade Union Recognition (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with HSE officials or management on a decision not to recognise a trade union that represents ambulance and paramedic workers; the meetings or discussion with a group of unions (details supplied) in relation to the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5367/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Data (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the HSE of its use of agency staff in all nursing grades since 2010; the projected costs for 2019, if available; the number of vacancies for full-time positions for nurses and midwives in the public hospital system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5369/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed review of some CervicalCheck tests and smears by an organisation (details supplied) will commence; when it will report; if the review will detail both the grade of error involved in each false negative test and the number of such by each laboratory contracted under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5366/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department and HSE officials are refusing to release information that would detail the number of false negative tests in the cervical screening programme by each laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5368/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 will be carried out in view of recent statistics on arrests for prostitution offences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5030/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 535. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the value of grants disbursed by the SEAI under categories (details supplied) in 2017 and 2018. [5605/19]