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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 806. To ask the Minister for Health if those who are considered very high risk by the HSE if they contract Covid-19 and have been told to remain home from work following an occupational health assessment are a priority in the vaccine schedule; when persons with sarcoidosis on the lungs with pulmonary fibrosis will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 951. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the wait time for a woman to avail of a mammogram; if the wait time is improving or worsening; his plans to reduce these waiting times; the reason it is possible to get a mammogram in the private sector with a general practitioner referral letter in a much quicker timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7388/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure consumers use less imported beef products and greater amounts grown locally especially during the recent crisis and delays in imports and the implications that importing and exporting beef has for climate concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7178/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I heard the Tánaiste tell Deputy Michael Collins that he does not know much about Barryroe, but he is probably aware that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, recently granted approval for survey works to continue or begin at Barryroe. I am not being smart, but I want to tell the Tánaiste and Deputy Michael Collins that since the Green...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: First Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend certain rights and protections of retired persons and certain representative associations in relation to industrial relations and trade disputes and for that purpose to amend the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1990 and the Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2019, to make provision for enhanced representation of...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: First Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing with Deputy Murphy. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am increasingly smelling a rat in this discussion and it may be a green one. The reason I say that is because when one listens to what this motion is trying to do, it is telling us that it needs to decommission the infrastructure from the now-exhausted pipeline near the Old Head of Kinsale but at the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that businesses such as marketing agencies that operate in settings such as colleges and universities are currently not eligible for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that although these companies' premises are not technically closed to the public, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a worker on a banded-hours contract whose contract is formally such that he or she would earn less than €151 per week is automatically excluded from the pandemic unemployment payment; if employees in a situation in which employees may routinely have exceeded the €151 per week payment prior to the pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an employee who is excluded from the pandemic unemployment payment by virtue of earning less than €151 per week but who is receiving less than his or her normal payment from his or her employer as a top-up can access supports from her Department or has an entitlement to seek jobseeker or other payments; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives that are available to a general practice nurse who is 22 weeks pregnant and who under the new guidance issued on 5 January 2021 is scheduled to receive a vaccine (details supplied) and who will be part of the team rolling out a vaccine clinic at their practice; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that NIAC have advised that the...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Approximately ten months ago, I first raised the issue of meat plants and Covid outbreaks with one of the Minister's predecessors, whose response was an angry defence of the industry and the meat plants. That was a foolish response and, at worst, negligence because as we all now know meat plants are epicentres of Covid infection, often leaving vulnerable migrant workers at risk and the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2000 in relation to section 12 Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 given in Irish pounds and in terms of Euro according to the official conversion rate from punts to euro for 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2001 in relation to section 12 Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 given in Irish pounds and in terms of Euro according to the official conversion rate from punts to euro for 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 for each of the years 2002 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8783/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that was determined for the years 2002 to 2019 to be equivalent to the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2000 in relation to section 12, Part 4 the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 as increased by reference to the consumer price index for each of those years in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2020 in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department receives information as to the proportion of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer each year in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 that is due to betting on the greyhound industry, betting on the horseracing industry and betting on other sports or outcomes; if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the working group on latent defects in apartment buildings set up in 2020; the interim findings of the group; if the group will be inviting submissions from affected apartment owners and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support a State redress body to fund remedial works for defective apartments built in recent decades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8031/21]