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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the chief executive of an ETB can refuse an employee who has been certified fit for work by a doctor access to their workplace following a judgment of medical unfitness made by the chief executive in breach of the occupational health service protocols issued by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the chief executive of an ETB can arrange an appointment for an employee with the occupational health service when such is in breach of the protocols issued by her Department. [33401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if ETBs can impose different conditions of work on teachers who teach students in mainstream post-primary classes as against colleagues on the same contact of employment who teach students pursuing further education courses in relation, for instance, to availability of online teaching and staggered lessons; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to a person over 66 years of age who is impacted by the Covid-19 crisis and self-employed but cannot currently avail of the PUP payment due to current age limits. [33344/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person over 66 years of age who runs a business as a self-employed person and currently does not qualify for a PUP payment can avail of the employment support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33345/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1097. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the definition of a close contact for the purposes of Covid-19 tracing in primary and secondary schools; if this definition used by the HSE is in line with WHO and ECDC guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a definition of a close contact for the purposes of Covid-19 tracing; if this definition used by the HSE is in line with WHO and ECDC guidelines; if this definition is applied in primary and secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32324/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1266. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is handing over the governance, care and accommodation needs of vulnerable persons in sheltered accommodation to an approved housing body; and if he will further clarify issues (details supplied). [32840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1343. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to a medical card holder that is prescribed a drug (details supplied) prior to undertaking a colonoscopy; the actions a medical card holder should take in these circumstances; if there are alternative drugs available under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1362. To ask the Minister for Health if any HSE staff currently working on contract tracing have been redeployed from other services, specifically those involving speech and language assessments for children, occupational therapist services and NEPS psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33360/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the views of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on the issue of the placing of barriers to new entrants to the meat processing sector; his views on whether a submission from his Department to the immigrant investor programme evaluation committee in relation to a proposed facility...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1576. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the action she has taken in relation to whistle-blower disclosures made to and regarding a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32393/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an audit of an area (details supplied) took place in March 2020; and the actions that have been taken by the relevant authorities on foot of its findings. [32394/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1578. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the appointment by the local authority of an external person to work with a body (details supplied) in relation to ongoing issues there has taken place; and the cost of this external assistance. [32395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1579. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a body (details supplied) was fined in 2015 by Pobal; the reason for this; and the actions taken by relevant bodies since to avoid a repetition of the actions that resulted in this fine. [32396/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the restrictions and advice to persons that must travel to England and that return to Ireland via Belfast; the obligations in relation to travel locator forms and recommended isolation times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34065/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of close contacts a positive case of Covid-19 has in a school setting (details supplied). [33996/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria and procedures used in schools to define a close contact of a Covid-19 positive person (details supplied); the persons the public health risk assessment team consult in deciding who might be a close contact; the person or body that has the final say on what a close contact is in each case; the rationale for departing from the ECDC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have a couple of questions. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to ask either of the speakers from NESC about the question of a just transition. NESC's description is that a just transition must be equitable and participative in both the process and the outcome at national, regional and local levels. I have two questions. First, would NESC consider what just transition...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: In accordance with the Equal Status Act, all children should have equal access to courses and facilities in schools where they are available to others. There are approximately 500 teenagers and children across the country who themselves are healthy but who live with medically very high-risk, VHR, parents or siblings. These VHR forgotten families have been lobbying the Minister, Deputy Norma...