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Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I also welcome the Bill and thank its sponsors. It is timely because People Before Profit is putting a similar Bill before Stormont to repeal the anti-trade union legislation introduced by Maggie Thatcher many decades ago, which have been implemented by the Stormont regime. I welcome that as it gives us the sense that the same problems face workers all over Ireland, on both sides of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Review (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the commission for the future of the Defence Forces; the person who will be on the board; if representatives of the Defence Forces personnel such as an organisation (details supplied) will be on the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the issue of formal recognition of an organisation (details supplied) in order to represent the interests of Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the proposal that an organisation (details supplied) join a union as an affiliate body; if the affiliation will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of all contracts for goods or services, including drone technology, purchased by the Defence Forces from Israel and Israeli-based firms to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons recruited to the Defence Forces under the re-enlistment scheme announced in March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Immigrant Investor Programme (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of his Department’s submissions to the immigrant investor programme evaluation committee on the application for proposed development of a meat processing facility in Banagher, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29335/20]

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: To deny climate change is to bury one's head in the sand. We have seen the hottest September on record and wildfires from the Amazon to Siberia. Climate change is real and it is here. To say that this increase is a rural versus city issue is wrong. There are people in Cherry Orchard and other working class estates who are freezing cold tonight because the €100 that was forwarded...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether investment should be made in Irish language centres in towns and cities nationally as has been done in Northern Ireland to give the language a focus in the community; if she will establish a fund to assist these centres to operate as recommended in the investment plan agreed by 80 Irish language and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if after ten years of reduced funding for Foras na Gaeilge she will provide an additional €4.5 million in budget 2021 to Foras na Gaeilge to fund the projects agreed by 80 Irish language and Gaeltacht groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29910/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an additional €6 million will be provided to Údarás na Gaeltachta in its line budget to create jobs and contribute to language planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29911/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an additional €910,000 will be provided for the Irish language community scheme, SPG, organised by Foras na Gaeilge to guarantee that groups have sufficient funding to coordinate the Irish language in their areas under the scheme and that other groups in various constituencies have the opportunity to join the scheme;...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Scholarships (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will establish a scholarship scheme as recommended in the investment plan agreed by 80 Irish language and Gaeltacht groups to assist disadvantaged school pupils to attend summer college courses in the Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29913/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Bullying in the Workplace (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 207. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to deal with issues in the Defence Forces concerning allegations of sexual abuse, bullying and harassment of personnel; his plans to implement safeguards; his plans to establish investigations or inquiries into the allegations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 311. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person’s time on maternity leave is credited as a contributory period, either paid, credited, reckonable contribution and so on for the purposes of the social insurance fund and access to certain benefits; if such a period on maternity leave is not treated as a credited period for their contributions record, her...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE policy for remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular for hospital employees whose work can be done from home; if a forum is available for workers to contact should they feel they are being put under pressure to return to the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29638/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available from her Department to a primary school student whose lone parent is recently blind and unable to ensure her child safely reaches school each morning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which a school should close as a result of staff testing positive for Covid 19; if her Department has been notified by principals of the numbers of confirmed positive cases among teachers in their school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30250/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to pay a Christmas bonus to recipients of social protection payments in 2020; and the date on which this will happen. [30444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 230. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps to be taken by the parent of a child in order to secure an additional year of preschool learning under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, programme (details supplied); and the body to which such an application should be made. [30394/20]