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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Contracts (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if payments or expenses are being paid to a person (details supplied) for services provided during the Covid-19 crisis to the Government and An Taoiseach. [5962/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a series of matters will be clarified regarding the situation in relation to third-level courses, such as social care studies which require students to finish placements of up to 800 hours in a workplace (details supplied). [6266/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and causes of deaths in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres in 2019 and to date in 2020, in line with the recommendations of the 2020 report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [5896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of positive Covid-19 cases and clusters in direct provision centres; and the number of these occurring in new centres opened specifically as a response to the Covid-19 crisis. [5971/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the safeguards and oversights in place to protect direct provision residents who are forced to self-isolate; and if dietary and other needs at a centre (details supplied) have been deemed as suitable for residents self-isolating. [5972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 570. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to ensure the HSA can carry out on-site inspections of workplaces as a result of complaints from workers over unsafe practices in regard to Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5969/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 571. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to empower the HSA to close down workplaces that are in breach of Covid-19 safety guidelines and ensure the protection of employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5970/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 594. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on cases in which workers are told their company is accessing the WSS and in which this results in a payment significantly below the PUP €350 or the regular jobseeker’s payment due to the fact the calculation is based on earnings for January and February 2020 and the workers concerned may have had little net...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 712. To ask the Minister for Health if positive cases of Covid-19 were identified in a facility (details supplied) among residents in the direct provision system by the HSE; and if so, the date on which these were confirmed or suspected as Covid-19 cases. [5966/20]

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

Bríd Smith: 713. To ask the Minister for Health the location and date of the first Covid-19 positive cases identified in residential nursing homes. [5967/20]

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

Bríd Smith: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the interventions made by the HSE and the HPSC in direct provision centres, specifically on-site visits or inspections of these sites by public health teams and staff. [5968/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of workers who have been placed on the wage subsidy scheme but also informed or have had to apply for supplementary welfare payments due to the fact their earnings on the scheme are too low. [6155/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have applied for SWA since March 2020; and the number of those that are on the wage subsidy scheme. [6157/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the RTB should hear cases from tenants who have had their deposits retained by landlords or other disputes, but that are not in tenancies covered by the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 but that have faced issues of evictions and non-refunding of deposits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units for emergency accommodation currently being used in hotel settings. [5965/20]

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I will ask questions only of the Minister, Deputy Creed, because in the past I have found it a fruitless exercise to question the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. I want to address what I believe is the situation. I believe the Minister has failed utterly to take seriously any warnings from Deputies in the House, to investigate them or to enforce basic health and safety regulations in the...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I will accept written answers, please.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a study by a university, it is not a Trump response.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a very important study by a university and the Minister should be familiar with it.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: We are seeing a serious attempt to pass the parcel today on the part of all the witnesses. It is not a failure of any one body - Nursing Homes Ireland, HIQA, the HSE or the Department - but at its heart it is a gigantic political failure to act in the interests of our elderly people. Since the late 1980s we have been privatising the care of the elderly. It was described by the Ombudsman in...