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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 15 February 2022, the way that suitability is determined regarding accommodation; the way that bed space numbers are determined in a dwelling; if there are any guidelines or regulations on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9824/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (22 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a company (details supplied) was awarded the contract for provision of SafePass online for SOLAS; when the newly awarded contractor for online SafePass provision will begin online renewals for SafePass; if the same consumer cost savings available in the UK, currently £36, will be passed on to workers requiring online SafePass renewals...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the establishment of a working group under the joint auspices of the national dementia office and the Integrated Care Programme to determine the needs and solutions to provide persons with Huntington’s disease and their families with a good standard of care in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9390/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: On the abandonment of PCR testing for the majority of the population, as has been said, the vast majority of people with symptoms who need a test will have to pay €90 privately to have it done. Many medically vulnerable groups, who have written and accounted for this in a letter to the Department, are worried about the abandonment of most measures like mask-wearing, testing and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a decision has been made by the Government in relation to alternative funding for public service broadcasting or the future of the television licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans in relation to the television licence; if the collection of the licence fee will be moved from An Post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the yearly funding available for the recently announced retrofitting scheme in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 of €267 million, €291 million and €380 million can be increased to a yearly average of €1 billion if the funds are used or run out as a result of uptake, inflation or capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will support a legislative proposal to implement an outright ban on LNGs in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual projected expenditure in funding by the State on the national broadband plan for the years 2021 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10274/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if persons in private rented accommodation who pay an energy bill separate to others in the same building must have a bill in their own name to be included in the proposed energy grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm a company (details supplied) has won a competitive tender from the National Transport Authority for the operation of new orbital routes W4 and W6; the reason the authority believes the company can operate these services given widespread non-operation of its existing services as a result of either driver absences or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (24 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the weighting that is given by the National Transport Authority to the payroll costs of the company that won the tender to operate the new orbital routes W4 and W6; if the authority compares payroll costs between the different companies tendering for these routes; the way it appraises these costs; the weighting that it gives to the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask about dental services for people suffering with autism. The Minister of State who is responsible for this area is in the Chamber. Young people who live with autism have limited access to dental services and are subject to many sensory issues. This means the dentists who look after them need to be specifically and highly trained. In Dublin South-Central, there is one such...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Boyd Barrett should not answer him. He should just stay above it.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: Táimid buíoch do Shinn Féin as an rún seo a thabhairt agus beimid ag tacú leis. We thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion, which we will support. Ireland's health service is an underfunded shambles by design, held together by the superhuman efforts of undervalued and underpaid health workers who have been pushed to their limit. Every aspect of...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: I was all ears in listening to the concerns that Deputy Cairns raised. They were very detailed. I look forward to the Minister’s response to them. On their way in here, I am sure most Deputies will have noticed that, yet again, Sheila is outside the gates with her display on the mother and baby homes and the suffering that went on. In that, she mentions the 9,000 children who...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a previous Parliamentary Question on the pension scheme of retired RTÉ employees that a decision on such schemes was not solely his responsibility, if Regulation 85 which specifies that a pension may be increased by such an amount as may be authorised from time to time by the Minister for Finance and if since the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify if the pensions schemes of former RTÉ employees and Dublin Port and Dock workers are subject to a veto in terms of a proposed rise in these pensions by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11381/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the operation of the SEAI warmer homes scheme and related retrofitting schemes.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of building contractors presently working on the warmer homes and related retrofitting schemes on behalf of the SEAI; the agencies and bodies that administer the schemes on behalf of the SEAI if such work is contracted out; the amounts paid to them for administration, and inspection work in the years since...