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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home tuition hours applications still awaiting sanction under the home tuition scheme; the reason for the ongoing delays; the budget allocation for the scheme for 2020; the number of pupils involved; the number of teachers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50844/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 313. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reduce the level of waste tyres exported to India; if the Climate Action Plan 2019 or future plans will address the generation and treatment of such waste by-products in the motor industry; if ways of treating such waste here will be examined; if the disposal and environmental damage done by such waste in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recommendations by the Labour Relations Commission on pensions for community employment supervisors (details supplied); her further views on whether she is the funder referred to; her further views on whether the recommendations are being rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51071/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation in relation to the data collection exercise agreed by her Department in relation to the LCR19293 recommendation CE/JI Supervisors-Assistant Supervisors; the reason it included data from other categories not included in the LRC recommendation; if the data will be corrected to cover just the workers covered by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Since the Taoiseach has not read the report from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, I will read some passages from it: Light, heat and power are fundamental requirements to participate in society and a prerequisite for social inclusion. ... [Last] year, SVP spent more than €5 million helping people with the cost of energy - an increase of 20% on the previous year. We are therefore...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: In case the Taoiseach is saying that the report the Society of St. Vincent de Paul issued this morning is some kind of fairy tale, I repeat that 140,000 children are cold this winter in the weeks leading up to Christmas. How does that make the Taoiseach feel? It makes me feel appalled. I want to relocate where I believe the problem exists. The Taoiseach says the carbon tax is to change...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I appeal to the Taoiseach not to deny that what the Society of St. Vincent de Paul reported this morning is true. It is absolutely true and he should deal with the facts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Not if you are a child.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach raises whatever he wants-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the new legislation necessary further to the recent Court of Appeal decision regarding residency criteria for citizenship applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51148/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the funding from his Department to the Canal Communities Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force by year since 2015; the planned funding for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51380/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 394. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories in which the 159 slides reviewed by a college (details supplied) came from and which were classified as discordant cases in which the expert panel considered there was an adverse effect on the outcome of the woman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories from which the slides came from and which were found by the review by a college (details supplied) to contain discordant results; and the slides which were found to have low grade abnormal cells 14.3% and high grade abnormal cells 30%. [51506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the information sought since June 2018 regarding a breakdown by laboratory contracted under CervicalCheck of the false negatives identified by a review (details supplied) and the scale of discordance identified between the original CervicalCheck result and the review; and if same will be presented across the laboratories in this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 439. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 5 December 2018, if, following a review (details supplied) he will direct the HSE to provide the information requested. [51729/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 440. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 5 February 2019, if the analysis referred to the person with appropriate expertise is a reference to the 221 laboratory audit report, a report (details supplied) or a separate analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51730/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 441. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 322 and 323 of 24 September 2019, if the fact that the HSE has established an expert group to review clinical audit of interval cancers is a reference to a review (details supplied) or a different expert group. [51731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the Scally report and a review (details supplied), he will recommence the CervicalCheck audit that has been paused since May 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51750/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the number of slides requested by a college (details supplied) to be included in its review and which had been given consent for inclusion by the women concerned but were not available to the review due to the fact the laboratory concerned could not locate them, by laboratory; if the slides have subsequently become available; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a review (details supplied) suggests that twice as many high-grade abnormalities are missed by laboratories contracted to conduct the CervicalCheck screening programme in comparison to the referenced screening programme in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51752/19]