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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance if the employment wage subsidy scheme will end for all recipients on 30 April 2022; the supports that will be available for any sector that continues to be affected by a downturn as a result of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21408/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of childcare costs for each provider (details supplied), in tabular form. [21632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (28 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department or officials have had any discussion with the Data Protection Commission on the implication of new technology such as smart glasses for data protection; her views on whether new legislation is necessary to protect individual rights in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21553/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority tenants can offer accommodation to refugees such as Ukrainian citizens fleeing war; if they require the permission of their local authority to do so; if his Department has discussed such a policy with the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school websites are defined as public sector websites; if so, if they should therefore have a web accessibility statement published on their websites; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent by the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board and Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board on legal fees and so on, on cases taken or involving both current and former staff in tabular form since 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the €112,000 debt write-off facilitated by SOLAS to a charity (details supplied); if such was discussed by SOLAS with his Department; if any concerns were raised on the matter; if he believes there should be a Garda investigation both into the collection of the funds by a charity in Waterford from two...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish refuge centres for male victims of domestic violence; the options available to men who experience domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the nine cases being examined in 2019 in relation to sexual harassment assault claims in the Irish Prison Service; if the IPS examined the possibility of an embedded problem beyond treating complaints as individual cases apart from training in protected disclosures if there have been any progressive...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the decision by a charity (details supplied) to cease operating; the alternative provision that has been made to ensure the work of this group continues and that supports remain in place; if any alternative to closure or redeployment of staff at the charity was discussed or examined by her...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1521. To ask the Minister for Health if a senior occupational therapist working at a nursing home (details supplied) during the specified period of the Covid-19 pandemic will be eligible for the €1,000 healthcare bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19920/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank our guests for their presentations. What jumps out at me is the sense we are almost back to where we were when we started with the eighth amendment. Dr. Henchion stated that 90% of doctors do not provide care. Rather than saying that 10% do, the fact that 90% do not demonstrates the lack of services for women in this country. Moreover, there is a lack of mandatory provision in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks (4 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the boundaries of national parks; if such a process can be imitated by local authorities or other bodies; the method or legislation needed to be amended to extend current boundaries; if mineral exploration licences can be issued for areas covered by national parks; the environmental protections that are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of disability and living alone allowances can access any additional help from the State given the current cost of living issues; if a person will be eligible for help in relation to management fees for their apartment and the local property tax; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22440/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: If it was, we would be the landowners.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I appeal to the Taoiseach to stop; to stop that side of the House from trying to make us look like we do not give a damn about the maternity and reproductive care of women, that somehow we are delaying it through misinformation, that we are Opposition for the sake of opposition and that we are playing politics with this. Please stop. This is not helping the debate for the ordinary people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Let us move away from the historical legacy of the religious order's involvement and the mistrust and take at face value what the Taoiseach is saying, that we will effectively own the hospital. The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group fact sheet, which is very useful, asks on page 2: "Who owns the NMH?". It states: "The new NMH DAC will be part of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group." It asks:...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: On the day that the World Meteorological Organization, WMO, has warned that the planet has a 50-50 chance of average global temperatures soaring 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels at least once in the next five years, will the Taoiseach agree that this means the shot across the bows that we have received from the WMO means that we absolutely must move away from burning fossil fuels, that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: We should move together not to develop Barryroe.