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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Traveller Community (10 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a Traveller specific employment strategy to support the training and employment objectives in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 in view of the 80% unemployment in the community. [16795/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Traveller Data (10 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of Traveller participation in activation programmes; and the specific targeted measures used to increase Traveller involvement. [16796/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (11 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation to protect consumers in dealing with insurance companies specifically in cases in which the companies are refusing businesses insurance cover without adequate explanation or refusing to explain the reason for refusals especially in situations in which the business has been a customer for many years; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services (11 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of actions taken by the WRC enforcement section on foot of the refusal by an employer to fulfil an award made to an employee after a WRC hearing or an adjudication in each of the years 2016 to 2018. [16993/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services (11 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the WRC has decided not to take action to enforce its own findings in a case in which an employer claims they did not receive documentation regarding a hearing; if such defences by employers are routinely accepted by the WRC as a defence when an employer has lost a hearing adjudication decision; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (11 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to grant access to An Garda Síochána and other representative groups in the Defence Forces or those that represent retired employees access to the industrial relations machinery of the State under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16989/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (11 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the provision of breast clinic services in St. James's Hospital is being cut back; the steps he will take in relation to same; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that carriers of genetic braca 1 and 2 are having repeat visits and check-ups extended from once every six months to once every 12 months,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Support Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 506. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons receiving childcare subsidies through either training and education or childcare subvention; and the number of the recipients that are lone parents. [17605/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Support Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 507. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been an impact analysis on the loss of training and education or childcare subvention for vulnerable groups; and if so, the outcome of same. [17606/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Support Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 14 December 2016, if she has addressed the matter with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection; and if so, the position in this regard (details supplied). [17607/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Education and Training Support Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 509. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if in a two parent family only one parent must engage with the jobseeker activation measures by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (details supplied) and the second parent is allowed to fulfil the caring role; and her plans to introduce a childcare scheme that will specifically address this dual role. [17608/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (17 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial resources and other supports that can be provided to new independent Gaelscoileanna in the Dublin 10 and 12 areas (details supplied). [17871/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (18 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the continued closure of a newly built ward in a nursing home (details supplied); the cost to build and refurbish the ward; the cost of the continued closure; the number of beds on the ward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18198/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in the provision of supports, including SNAs for children with autism, in primary and secondary schools; his plans to enhance the supports available; his plans to ensure children have access to such supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20117/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure children and students in the Dublin 8 and 12 areas have access to a secondary Educate Together facility; the rationale for excluding students from these areas from the facility at Harold’s Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20118/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with parents and students who are campaigning for Gaelscoileanna in Dublin 10 and 12 in view of the fact that these are the only areas in Dublin without such a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20119/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation under which persons can obtain a licence to run a dog kennel. [19186/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks carried out on dog kennels to ensure a minimum standard of care for animals; and the checks carried out to ensure that animals are not being neglected or treated cruelly. [19187/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stocking, losses escapes, diseases, mortalities and harvested fish by number of fish and weight at a farm (details supplied) in 2018 and to date in 2019. [19629/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advertising or public information available to make persons using taxis aware of an application (details supplied). [18729/19]