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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Exactly. We will write on your gravestone, "I told them I was sick".

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the backlog and delays in issuing social welfare payments; and the further reason for the delay of six months in relation to appeals. [15690/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask the Minister the reasons for delays in issuing social welfare payments. In her answer I hope the Minister will address the current situation. About one year ago her Department gave a briefing in the AV room, attended by our staff. At that time the Department acknowledged there was a waiting time for appeals of at least five months, and an overall waiting time for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I need not say this to the many people who suffer the anxiety of waiting for a decision on a payment, but the reason they are in the system applying for payment is because their level of income is so low that they rely on the State for help. I had a young woman before me recently who was literally falling to pieces with grief. She was with her child. She is waiting for a decision on her...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is only if a person is single.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I refute what the Minister has said. Supplementary payments are not available to those who are not single. If a person is living with an applicant in the same household the applicant is not entitled to it. Let us consider the statistics. It seems there may be a problem with the number of medical officers available to make decisions. It is in the areas of carers, disability and illness...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to deal with bogus self-employment practices; and when legislation will come before Dáil Éireann on the matter. [15656/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: This is about the Minister's plans to deal with bogus self-employment. I ask her to lay out her plans today because a number of Bills are before the Dáil, including legislation from my group, and we want to know what her intentions are. This situation resembles the Bill on banded hours, when robust legislation was brought by the Opposition only for the Government to jump in and bring...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Listening to the Minister is somewhat similar to listening to the presentations by IBEC and the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, at the committee's meeting last week. It is a case of see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil and "There is nothing going on here, move along". The Minister indicated there is no evidence that bogus self-employment is rampant. However, it is rampant in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contracts with JobPath providers will expire; when a decision on the future of the scheme will be made; if the recent Dáil Éireann motion on the issue will be taken into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15655/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Support Allowance (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of full restoration of the telephone allowance including to those that may qualify but do not live alone; and her plans to address the issue in the next period. [15657/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commission a review to ascertain the number of workers per year affected by the six-day waiting period while sick from work; and the estimated cost of restoring the waiting period to three days. [15658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the possibility of widening the applicability of the home care credit in the calculation of pension entitlements for retired workers, specifically workers in semi-State organisations and bodies such as the Central Bank, who may have no entitlement to State contributory pensions and whose workplace pensions are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if legislation governing the pension entitlements of workers (details supplied) can be amended to allow women who raised families and took leave from their workplaces for those periods to avail of home care credits similar to those recently amended under the contributory pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for future funding of a society (details supplied); the amount of funding that will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and the Irish sign language academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15855/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the future funding of a society (details supplied); the way in which the funding will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and an academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15766/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a response will issue in the case of a back to education allowance for a person (details supplied). [15691/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (10 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the measures and age extension in the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018 will apply to semi-State workers going forward, specifically to employees at RTÉ; if there are proposals to extend the measure to other workers in other sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16966/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of access to a new school (details supplied); and if he will meet a representative group of parents from the Dublin 8 and 12 areas. [16794/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (10 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to give evidence to the vaginal mesh review team in the interest of transparency and fairness in view of the fact that another person gave evidence. [16866/19]