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Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: It must be difficult to try to balance all the factors that must be taken into account when pulling together a budget under the sort of economic, social and political system we live in, but no doubt, the Government is doing it. That is what it does all the time and it makes clear political decisions about where and what it targets in terms of revenue raising. I want to put it into the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the renewal of a driver licence in circumstances (details supplied). [34362/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans ensure that driving licences due to expire over the coming weeks during level 5 restrictions will be extended until these measures are lifted given that the NDLS has advised that appointments for non-essential workers should be cancelled by applicants and that many will be unable to avail of online or postal renewals for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the introduction of a no blame occupational injury scheme has been considered for teachers and workers in the education sector; if not, her plans for the introduction of a scheme in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34421/20]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: We have no doubt where this debate is going. The conduct of it is quite shocking. Those on the other side of the House who believe they are debating a Sinn Féin motion, as they repeatedly said, are wrong. We are debating their motion and the outcome of it is clear. After tonight, normal people will look back and say, "He got away with it again". I refer to normal people like a young...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his engagement with the liquidators appointed to a company (details supplied); his plans to ensure the workers currently in dispute with the company will receive a just redundancy package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of inspections by the HSA of meat plants since level 5 Covid-19 restrictions were put in place; the measures taken to ensure the safety of workers in this sector and that there is no renewed outbreak or clusters in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35082/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the reliance on technological fixes for carbon removal in the climate action Bill; the division of labour he anticipates between same and emissions reductions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will amend the climate action Bill to include sanctions or consequences for missing five-year climate targets. [35108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure the climate action Bill is compatible with a just transition and environmental justice. [35110/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the evidence given by a person (details supplied) to the Joint Committee on Climate Action that a significant and sustained reduction in methane will have a greater impact in helping Ireland achieve the Paris Agreement targets than a comparable reduction in carbon dioxide. [35111/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will amend the climate action Bill to a binding target of net zero by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 330. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company can send a worker who is in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme or the employment support scheme to another EU country to work during the period they are on the scheme even in cases in which the other EU country was not their original or usual workplace in the period prior to been placed on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 331. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies on the list of companies published in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; the number of employees who while in receipt of the subsidy had their incomes topped up by the company concerned; and the amounts of these top-ups as a percentage of the employees normal weekly income. [35434/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason numerous nursing homes have availed of the wage subsidy scheme for employees; the number of employees in the sector who were placed on the scheme; if these employees worked throughout the period in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35436/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 332. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to seek the reimbursement of the amounts of wage subsidies given to companies in cases in which these companies return to profit by the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 6 October 2020, if her Department is reimbursing providers for the free travel scheme that are also operating the same services under the LocalLink or rural transport programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Maternity Leave (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 561. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental impact that the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns have had on new parents on maternity leave; if he will consider starting the additional three weeks of parental leave at the earlier time of January 2021 in recognition of the negative effects on parents mental, physical and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 660. To ask the Minister for Health the healthcare providers with whom contracts or service level agreements were signed between 2014 and 2016 by the HSE or his Department or health services of any form in which funding came from the State by year and company in tabular form. [34580/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if definitive clarity will be provided regarding the term support bubble; the details of that which is and is not permissible for those that form a support bubble with another person who is living alone; the action taken if a person is stopped at a Garda checkpoint on their way to visit their nominated support bubble person who lives in another county; the...