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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Data (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the staff numbers at the WRC including adjudicators; the average time taken to have cases heard and appeals decided; and the number of cases heard in 2018 and to date in 2019. [50382/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law Review (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a review of the impact of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 will be held and completed; if it will examine specifically the impact of the changes in law on sex workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49764/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions Data (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal prosecutions of women and sex workers under the provisions of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; the number that relate to migrant and non-resident women and sex workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49765/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Prosecutions Data (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 for the offence of purchasing sex. [49885/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána keep a specific record of attacks and violence against sex workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49766/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if specific training for gardaí has been provided in the way in which to deal with migrant, non-resident and vulnerable sex workers and women who may face prosecution since the passing of the Criminal Law (Sexual offences ) Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49767/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given by his Department or An Garda Síochána to provide supports and or a dedicated liaison officer for sex workers to report on violence against them without fear of subsequently being prosecuted under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to residency requirements for acquiring Irish citizenship, specifically for long-term residents with UK passports who wish to become Irish citizens; if an appeal mechanism is available when applications are refused due to time spent outside of the State in a given period; if an appeal of a decision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented at hospitals and emergency departments recorded as incidents of self harm and-or attempted suicide in each of the years 2008 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the number of same that registered as having no fixed abode or classified as homeless. [49698/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 546 of 22 October 2019, the date and day on which the survey of services at peak hour in Chapelizod, Dublin 20 was conducted; if the survey was conducted by NTA staff on site in Chapelizod; if not, if the survey relied on on-board bus information; and the number of persons travelling on each bus...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apartments and houses known to his Department to have substandard fire safety standards; the person or body responsible for taking action to correct the defects; his plans to ensure such homes meet the safety standards required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49807/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (3 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to setting up a redress scheme for homeowners who find their properties have substandard fire safety standards and in which the developer and builder is no longer solvent; the responsibility and role of State agencies including local authorities and planning regulators in enforcing the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the cost to date of the unrolling of the public services card; the reason possession of a card is mandatory for parents availing of the new child care scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50381/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister set out the cost to date of unrolling the public services card, PSC? Will the Minister explain the reason possession of the card is mandatory for parents availing of the new child care scheme? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I wish to clarify my question. I am not saying rolling back. I mean bringing it forward. How much has it cost to date to introduce, implement and administer it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I will come back to the costs. Will the Minister answer the second part of my question? It relates to the reason the card is mandatory for parents availing of the new child care scheme. The Minister did not answer the second part of my question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: If the Minister is aware of that, then she will also be aware that the paper application process does not come into force until January 2020. That means an applicant will forgo at least one month of the child care payment. The Government, and the Minister's Department in particular, has been criticised by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The council has commented on how for several...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is a tragedy but it is also a truth. It was also something I was extremely proud to witness. The solution to the housing crisis was outside the gates of this House today. It involved the working poor of this city, Newbridge, Mayo, Galway, Cork and Kerry, to mention a few of the places where the people I met today are from. Ordinary people in their thousands called on this Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that banks and financial institutions which placed persons in mortgage distress on split mortgages some years ago as a response to the recession and crisis are now removing persons from the plans and pressurising them to make new arrangements with the banks; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will meet with trade union representatives to discuss recent developments with the pension entitlements of community employment supervisors and related issues; his plans to convene the community sector high level forum to resolve outstanding matters relating to community employment supervisors and other workers' pension...