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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of the review into the conduct of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that a member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (details supplied) does not have their membership renewed given their opposition to Covid-19 restrictions and their views on gay rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9586/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 910. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements have been made to vaccinate persons in exceptional cases in advance of scheduled surgery whose surgeons deem them as extremely high mortality risk during and after surgery should they contract Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1131. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will clarify the position regarding the conditions attached to interdepartmental assistance which demands the resignation of the board of an organisation (details supplied); and if a forced resignation is contrary to the protected disclosure legislation and in circumstances in which the whistleblower had been assured covers...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1132. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure that action is taken by her Department to support the new board of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1133. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will fully investigate a protected disclosure in relation to an organisation (details supplied); if she will allow an orderly timeframe for addressing the issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will intervene with the relevant local authorities to ensure that help is being provided to the new board of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10191/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I have just finished a phone call with a constituent in Ballyfermot. I am not sure if the Minister is aware of the following, but it will be interesting to hear if he is. At least 90 people over 85 years of age have had their vaccination appointments for today and tomorrow cancelled. The Ballyfermot primary healthcare centre was emptied of all other appointments to allow that to happen....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Exploration Licences (25 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position in respect of licences for mining exploration on the Inishowen peninsula and specifically the situation regarding a licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pension Provisions (25 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 112. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of planned changes to the rules of a pension scheme (details supplied) and arrangements and the annual administration fees pertaining to the superannuation scheme, specifically the outcome of consideration of this issue by her Department, NewERA and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if she will make...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sure like the rest of us the Taoiseach remembers Phil Hogan, who long before he went to Europe and long before "golfgate", was in charge of water services. At the time, as well as threatening the population that he would turn their water down to a trickle if they did not pay water charges, he also did a deal with all 3,200 of those who worked in the water services so that they would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I wish to respond to the Taoiseach on a number of issues. I understand there is a statement in the programme for Government to guarantee that water will remain as a public utility, but in fact a creeping privatisation is taking place by the outsourcing of functions. Irish Water declared it would begin a programme of replacing lead pipes, but it outsourced it. It declared it would undertake...

An Ghaeilge agus An Ghaeltacht: Ráitis (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: Ag ócáidí mar seo is minic go mbíonn daoine ag labhairt faoin Ghaeilge ar nós nach bhfuil ann ach caitheamh aimsire, mar theanga nach labhraíonn muid ach ó am go ham, nó mar atáimid ag déanamh anois le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge. Is mian liom labhairt, áfach, faoi thábhacht na Gaeilge ó thaobh chultúr agus stair na...

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am going to try to take four and a half minutes back and forth with the Minister and ensure I leave two minutes for Deputy Mick Barry. The return to school has been a double-edged sword for our society. On the one hand, there is the sense of joy and relief for children, their parents and teachers about going back but on the other, there is trepidation and fear. That is because we...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety Inspections (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Health and Safety Authority inspections in each month since September 2020 nationally and specifically in construction sites including the total number of these that were unannounced. [11702/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Horse and Greyhound Fund (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if the minimum allocation to the Horse and Greyhound Fund is bound by the wording of Part 3 section 12(4) of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001, which specifies an amount equivalent to the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in the preceding year or the year 2000 increased by reference to the consumer price index,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 383. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure Defence Forces personnel fulfilling duties overseas and in areas with high levels of Covid-19 community transmissions will receive the vaccination before embarking on such duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11700/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the discrepancy between mainstream primary schools that have received a reduction of one in the staffing schedule and DEIS band one schools that have only received a reduction of one in senior classes; if she will acknowledge that DEIS band one schools have not received any reduction in the schedule over the past number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of confirmed outbreaks of Covid-19 on construction sites and in industry in general. [11702/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to reprioritise those who are very high risk and extremely vulnerable, including transplant recipients and immunosuppressed persons, to be included in group 1 of the Covid-19 vaccination schedule; his views on whether those in the category have a high mortality rate if they contract Covid-19 and as a result have been reprioritised in...