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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories and companies that will conduct the new HPV testing for cervical cancer screening; if more than one company is involved; the expected percentage of the overall testing to be done by each laboratory concerned; the location of the laboratories and institutions concerned; his plans to repatriate the service fully here; and the criteria and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 998. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the resourcing of the office of the Just Transition Commissioner and team in terms of finance, budget and staffing; his views on whether the role which is part-time should be full-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4861/20]

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing my time with Deputy Mick Barry. If I ask questions, I am happy to have them answered in writing if I run out of time. I cannot believe the answer that Deputy Humphreys has just given to Deputy Catherine Murphy. It is outrageous. The Minister patronised her for a good section of the time by telling her that this document I am holding tells a person how to sneeze, how to...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: -----and they are very different. I want to tell the Minister why they are different. She should read the article in today's edition of The Guardianabout workers in the meat factories. I hope it pulls the strings of the Minister's heart, because it pulls mine when one listens to those workers talking about the experience they have been through. At least one worker has died and hundreds...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: No, they did not. They were made within the period of lockdown.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: This is not so.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Some are coming from Deputies like me.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Is mór an náire é don Rialtas seo gur theip air cúram leanaí a sholáthair dár n-oibrithe sláinte i lár na paindéime seo. The failure of the State the Government to provide basic childcare for our front-line workers, particularly nurses and doctors in the middle of this pandemic, is breathtaking. After eight weeks of spin and public relations...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The Minister can comment on my commentary if she wants, but I just want the answer to the question.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Compensate.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Who did not accept them or why were they not accepted? What was the reasoning?

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I want to return to the issue of the Debenhams workers. I have seen the correspondence between the Minister and Mandate, as I am sure many Members have. I will pick up on Mandate's last letter in which it notes that when the legislation was amended in 2007 no legislator sought to amend the particular aspects of the Act relating to the responsibility of the liquidator. It also refers a...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The Minister can respond in writing because otherwise it will take up too much time. There is a legal aspect in the letter that Mandate sent her about a European Court of Justice case and I ask that she expand on that. The onus is still on KPMG.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Will maternity leave be extended?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers on the WSS whose earnings are below €205 and €350, respectively. [6156/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employers, registered for tax purposes as offshore, that have availed of the wage subsidy scheme; and the cost of the scheme in these cases. [5960/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of transnational corporations availing of the wage subsidy scheme; the number of their employees on the scheme; and the sectors of industry in which they operate. [5961/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees who have been placed on the wage subsidy scheme and whose earnings are below €350 from this scheme and are not in receipt of any top-up from their employer; and the amount of weekly subsidy these workers receive from the scheme in bands below €350 (details supplied). [6158/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Collection (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the Revenue Commissioners to defer collection of the LPT from those affected by the Covid-19 crisis, that is, those on the pandemic unemployment payment or in the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5959/20]