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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will re-examine the position of providers who have not signed up to the core funding model in view of the current cost-of-living crisis and the difficulties faced by small providers of childcare services, and specifically the possibility or revisiting the issues around higher capitation and the PSP for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students who have to repeat a year during their degree course will not be able to avail of the reduced registration fees when doing so; the rationale for discriminating against repeat students like this who already face the added expenses involved in having to repeat such years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have met the soon-to-be former residents of the unauthorised structure on Liberty Lane, in Dublin 8, and I have spoken to the fire officers who checked out the place. They have very serious concerns about this unauthorised structure. Planning enforcement from Dublin City Council, DCC, has ordered it to be closed, and 27 people will be without homes in the week before Christmas. My...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I asked about consequences for the landlord and criminal negligence.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the national risk assessment. [59250/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to talk again about the risk to tenants who have to live in accommodation under reckless landlords. The tenants of Liberty Lane, Dublin 8, have for two years been paying €500 and €600 per month for a tin box with wires dangling around the kitchen area and bathroom area, and with two showers between 27 of them. Twenty-seven people now face homelessness in the weeks...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59251/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: In the same vein, I want to say this is the worst November on record for the trolley crisis. It is the last day of November today and it is the worst November on record. It has also been the warmest November on record so God knows what we will face when the weather gets really cold. We need to look at the health service in a very serious light. Figures tell us that in comparison with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Retention is the problem.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: In particular for nurses.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Half of the beds in Linn Dara have closed because psychiatric nurses cannot afford to live in Dublin. There is a real problem with retaining nurses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the significant delay in providing a necessary assessment of needs and psychology appointment for a child (details supplied); when they will be seen; the steps he is taking to clear the substantial waiting lists for these services; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on children with additional needs and their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if changes to income limits for social housing will be backdated; if anyone removed from the list in that period will have their years on the list restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59785/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities to ensure that they will buy homes if tenants are in receipt of notices to quit where the tenants would be eligible for social housing or cost-rental housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59786/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the position of students who must repeat a year of their degree course; if he will ensure that they receive supports available to others such as the reduction in registration fees previously announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the case of a teacher (details supplied) who teaches an autism class in a school which has four other unfilled teaching posts due to a teacher shortage in which the person faces losing their position due to a refusal to issue a work permit to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-EU applicants can apply for positions advertised on a website (details supplied); if she plans to change current work permit legislation in relation to teaching positions given the current crisis in filling positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if teaching jobs advertised for teaching staff on a website (details supplied) which receive applications from persons from non-EU states residing in Ireland must also be advertised on another website to comply with current work permit regulations relating to positions not deemed critical skills; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a work permit to continue working as an SNA will be examined; if any exceptional circumstances or discretion can be applied by his Department to allow this person to continue working in the school given the crisis in attracting and retaining staff in this sector and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any flexibility in relation to the issuing of temporary work permits for jobs not deemed critical skills jobs in cases in which an applicant (details supplied) has commenced work in a position and where their removal from that position will result in extreme hardship to vulnerable people reliant on their...