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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: No, it is not.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the situation regarding the definition of essential and non-essential workplaces and services during the Covid-19 crisis and level 5 restrictions and specifically the definition that applies to the construction sites of companies, such as a company (details supplied); the specific definition applied to FDI firms...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the flat rate of VAT applicable to service providers such as breeders, trainers and kennel owners in the greyhound sector. [2846/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if the flat rate system of VAT could be applied within the greyhound sector if greyhounds were not classified as farm animals. [2847/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance if the limit is applied to the turnover of a flat rate service provider in the greyhound sector which would require a service provider to register for VAT. [2848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of flat rate VAT being claimed by service providers in the greyhound sector. [2849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if training, breeding and rehoming are classified as professional services, which attract a VAT rate of 23%; and if not, if they are classified as agricultural services to which the flat rate of VAT of 5.2% is applied. [2850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider suspending planning applications, appeals and submissions during the current phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, given the difficulties persons have contacting and interacting with various Departments and personnel during level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports or grants available to primary and secondary school students or their parents to purchase laptops to help with home schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a worker who accepts a voluntary redundancy from his or her employer as a result of the downturn due to the Covid crisis is entitled to claim the pandemic unemployment payment. [2202/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a worker who is made redundant by his or her employer as a result of the Covid-19 crisis is entitled to claim the pandemic unemployment payment or if he or she must claim jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2203/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 541. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the position on the definitions of essential and non-essential workplaces and services during the Covid-19 crisis and level 5 restrictions, specifically the definition that applies to the construction sites of companies such as a company (details supplied); the definition that applies to FDI firms and construction work; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (20 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for classifying greyhounds as farm animals. [2845/21]

Brexit (Foreign Affairs): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: I wish to raise my comments and questions in the context of Covid and Brexit. I listened to Dr. Gabriel Scally on the radio this morning arguing for some form of quarantining and looking towards a zero-Covid strategy. He used the example of the level of co-operation between this State and the Northern Ireland state and the image of Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley, who famously became...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Minister acknowledged that the absence of special needs education negatively impacts on the children and on their families. We have witnessed that in the desperate need for additional supports for children and their families evident on the media over the past few days but it is a joke to dump it all on the teachers and the special needs assistants. All of us, every single Deputy in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason some essential workers whose children were offered places in creches and who are not taking up the offer of a place for their children are facing penalties from the crèche providers and still being charged for the child’s place; if his attention has been drawn to same; if his Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation in relation to SOLAS courses in which there is a requirement for a work placement, for example, for electricians and other apprenticeships; if his attention has been drawn to a significant backlog in placements which means many apprentices are not progressing through their education as they should but are also...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the Bill and congratulate Deputy Pringle on putting it before the House. The Government amendment is disgraceful. There is no need for an 18-month delay in examining the issues. It could start immediately if it were serious about enshrining this covenant and the rights of people in this country in the Constitution but it is not serious about...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach uses the floor to answer questions.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: We all know money makes the world go around. However, we should ask ourselves what makes money. What makes money is work and the productivity of people who carry out that work. The Debenhams workers will be 300 days out of their jobs next week. After an arduous 300 days, they are left with no compensation according to the collective agreement. Will the Taoiseach commit to translating...