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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the present status of St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; if the hospital was used as a stepdown facility for Covid-19 patients in 2020; the cost of repurposing the facility for this purpose; the plans for the facility in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a specific meat processing plant (details supplied) has provided for workers who have recently arrived here to quarantine in line with public health advice before commencing work at the plant; if inspectors from his Department at the plant have oversight knowledge or any regulatory role in relation to workers who have recently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. O'Rourke for his presentation and for coming to the committee today. One of my questions is on something I have observed. The Global Legal Action Network has written to the committee. Will Mr. O'Rourke comment on the details of the abuses suffered by workers and others in coal mines in Columbia? Does the ESB still have contacts with that mine? Does the ESB still do business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Working through the coal and human rights point, has the ESB decided to move away from importing coal from Cerrejón entirely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Where is the ESB getting the coal from now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: If we are to try to achieve a target of 70% renewables by 2030, that is nine years away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: And Mr. O'Rourke also thinks that we are going to have to rely on a supply of gas for that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. O'Rourke.

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I also want to focus on the issue of mandatory quarantine. Anybody who watched the RTÉ documentary last night about our public health workers would have been struck by the superhuman sacrifices they have made. Then we wake up this morning and listen to the Minister and other Government Ministers talking about what needs to be done. The utter disconnect between what we witnessed on the...

Appointment of Member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: While the board is new, it has seen hundreds of complaints from the public and others, more than 400 of which are still being addressed and investigated. The complaints seem to range across many issues, but one of the themes running through them is rudeness and a certain level of abuse by members of the legal profession. As such, it is welcome that there is some limited oversight of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lower the cost of road tax in 2021 given the reduction in car and road usage during the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of restrictions on unnecessary travel to work and leisure and intercounty travel; if his attention has been drawn to the refunds made by motor insurance companies to reflect this; if he will make similar...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given consideration to a declaration signed by several Ministers for Transport in the EU calling for certain measures to be taken to insure social responsibility in the aviation sector (details supplied); if he will sign this declaration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6991/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to expand the help-to-buy scheme to include help with the purchase of second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6499/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected amount of outstanding tax owed by PAYE workers as a result of the operations of the temporary wage subsidy scheme and employment wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a write-off of tax liability accruing to workers as a result of the operation of income and wage supports during the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 562. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure front-line workers can access childcare and crèche facilities in a situation in which their usual provider is unable to offer them a place or the facility is currently closed (details supplied); if his Department or another body can organise alternative places for parents caught in this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be given permission to work; if the application for a work permit will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6441/21]