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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure the services provided and the ethos of the local employment services scheme are preserved; her views on whether current EU directives mean such services must be competitively tendered out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost and number of staff employed in operating the employer reporting facility established by her Department in March 2020 to enable employers to notify it regarding staff not willing to return to work while they continued to claim pandemic unemployment payments; the number of employees on the pandemic unemployment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials along with Dublin City Council officials and representatives of a company (details supplied) have supported a number of proposals for the development of Moore Street; the actions he has taken to support such proposals; the details of meetings between his officials and others in relation to the Moore Street...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will acknowledge the significant impact that the Covid-19 pandemic and public health restrictions have had on young persons' mental health; if she will respond favourably to secondary school students' requests for the provision of a counsellor to schools to help address the mental health and emotional issues during and post public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address issues relating to carers and specifically the recommendations made by the Citizens' Assembly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26325/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. In January 2019, the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection examined the experience of JobPath and heard from researchers from the Waterford Un/employment Research Collaborative. One of the first things the researchers mentioned was the experience of the Traveller community on JobPath. Among other nasty experiences...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I have a question about Mary Queen of Angels Schools 1 and 2 in Ballyfermot which share the same campus. Both applied for the hot meals scheme. One school was successful but the other was not. The fear of the boards of management and the principals is that there will be a preference among parents to enrol their children in the school that provides the hot meals and the other school will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides in terms of this being an important issue about which he feels passionate. The more improvements we can make to the programme, the better. The anomalies must be addressed, however, particularly the situation where one campus is shared by two schools in Ballyfermot, Mary Queen of Angels, and one school gets the hot meals while the other does not....

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I wish to thank the Regional Group for putting forward this motion. We need to go back a few years to the major row that occurred in this country between the Government and the population over water charges. What came out of that was a vote in this Chamber in 2017 which fudged the whole issue. The main fudging was in respect of the question of public ownership of water utilities. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [24253/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Taoiseach for his report. I note that he did not mention any discussions on climate change. Yesterday, the International Energy Agency gave its starkest warning yet. Exploitation and the development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year. No new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world is to stay within safe limits of global heating and meet the net zero...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26247/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach's statement looked very much at the policing service of the future but in order to make reforms for the future we must also look at the past, and at the record of GSOC in particular. Sinn Féin has already referred to the inquiry on behalf of the family of Shane O'Farrell. I want to talk about two other outstanding issues on behalf of families. When someone dies either in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: So, it is GSOC.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26248/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26249/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24667/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Paul Murphy. Does the Minister's Department plan to review its handling of the outbreaks of Covid-19 in the meat-processing industry over the past year with a view to improving preventive measures?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: Major problems have been exposed in the meat processing industry by the Covid-19 crisis. Under the watch of his Department there have been a total of 108 outbreaks with more than 3,000 cases in meat factories themselves. Some 50 workers were hospitalised and 12 required care in intensive care units. SIPTU estimates that one in four meat workers got Covid-19 and that in turn seeded...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am very happy to hear the Minister acknowledge that it is a high-risk workplace because when this issue was originally raised in the Dáil by my colleague, Deputy Paul Murphy, he was dismissed by the Government and was accused of trying to smear the work of meat plants. For months there were no inspections whatsoever at the factories and the virus was simply let rip. During the...