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

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to revise current regulation and legislation regarding work permits and categories of critical skills in relation to teaching staff in primary and post primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59912/22]

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

Bríd Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can detail any steps taken by his Department to date to ensure the ERO for the security sector is enforced and implemented; the advice he has received in relation to the current injunction in implementing this ERO; if he can detail any meetings he or his Department have had with interested stakeholders; and if he will make a...

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

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that is available from his Department to help local authorities deal with outstanding issues of mould and damp in council flats; if retrofitting funding related to climate action can be provided in such circumstances, for example to help with costs of new windows in blocks; if not, if other sources of funding are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she can clarify if the PSA must take account of EROs approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas in its regulating of private security firms; the penalties there are for noncompliance by private security firms of such regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the position of a person on a graduate visa 1G; if any restrictions are placed on such a visa holder when applying for jobs in the State; if they can seek an extension of the visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is in need of a carer to assist them in their home but who is unable to source any carer and lives in an island setting has any entitlement to additional supports from her Department in terms of accessing home help and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59930/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their introductory statements. I wish to take up the line of argument Deputy Cronin took in respect of media and advertising. What do the witnesses think of the embedment of the fossil fuel and related industries in media circles, that is, the extent to which media outlets are reliant on, for example, Ryanair, which is opening up new travel routes, or the sale of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: I totally agree with Deputy McDonald on that point. I want to raise another issue on the Order of Business, and that is a motion we are being asked to pass without debate on the comprehensive agreement in the field of air transport. This deal is aimed at growing a market in transnational flights and climate is mentioned once in the briefing document. At a time when emissions are rising and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: No room at the inn, is there not, Deputy McGrath?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: What about the importance of dealing with the climate catastrophe that we are facing?

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. I welcome everybody into the Gallery. It is not our Gallery; it is theirs. It is always good to see the public come in to the Parliament because it has that dynamic of putting manners on lots of people in here. They are very welcome. I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion prior to the end of the year because it is hugely...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: I wish to highlight a connected matter that has not yet been raised. I thank the Social Democrats for tabling the motion. I will take the example of a schoolteacher from Pakistan who teaches in Our Lady of Lourdes National School in Goldenbridge, Dublin 8. It is a DEIS school. Members may be familiar with it. The teacher in question came from Pakistan on a 1G graduate visa, trained here...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials will meet with a student (details supplied) who has started a hunger and thirst strike over concerns relating the climate crisis in order to address the issues the student has raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61103/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 10 November 2022, if the new inspection support personnel, ISP, are employed under the same conditions as current qualified testers and within the same conditions as set by law regarding hours of employment; if the ISP are subject to Irish employment law or, alternatively, are they being paid...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to conduct a review in the near future of the effectiveness of her Department’s payroll system in light of reported issues from teachers regarding difficulty having changes made or mistakes rectified in salaries; the reason it is taking so long to have salary issues addressed and the difficulties for teachers trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if separate funding streams are available to schools to help with the costs of providing tracksuits for pupils at primary school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61272/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 1 December 2022, if a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to same will be clarified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61286/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: I spent half an hour with the Iranian community outside the gates of the Dáil today. It is three months since Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody. The regime made an announcement at the weekend that the morality police had been disbanded. According to those activists, this is utterly untrue. It is propaganda and another young activist was executed by the regime this morning. On...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is really hard to think of anything that is as necessary to life as water. Next to food and heat, it is truly essential. When the previous Government attempted to bring in water charges, we were constantly told by various business interests that water would be the new oil in the coming years as the environment globally became threatened by the climate crisis and other crises. When...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the position of those workers, many of whom are presently working in sectors suffering chronic shortages of staff, who are presently in the state on a G1 graduate visa, when their visa has or is due to expire and where their job would ordinarily require the position to be advertised and filled in line with...