Results 7,061-7,080 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: There is some homework.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [3412/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare officers to deal with applicants for additional needs' payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6073/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister to provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare offices to deal with applications for additional needs payments and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I believe we will be able to say with confidence that it is unlikely that the increase the Minister has allocated for exceptional needs payments is going to cover the demand. We are increasingly seeing, as the Barnardos report showed yesterday, that people who are earning substantially more - I know the CWOs have discretion - are also running into real difficulty with the energy crisis in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I had a lot more to say but I am under time pressure. I will revisit the question of those living with district heating systems. Many of them are approaching a lot of Deputies. These systems are not regulated by the CRU so they do not fall under any regulation. The utilities can charge what they like. They charge much more than what the Minister and I pay for gas coming into our homes....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will write to the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure that adequate accommodation is available for refugees arriving in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6070/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will start by quoting an Afghani international protection applicant who arrived in Ireland on 26 January: "I have nowhere to go, I'm tired and I'm afraid I will die in the cold." This was when the Government announced it had no more accommodation for international protection applicants. On top of that are the 5,000 people who have the right to leave direct provision but are still stuck in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I recognise the changed landscape to which the Minister referred, but I wish the Government would recognise that that change is taking place in the middle of a housing crisis. There seems to be a refusal by every member of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to recognise that a large part of the accommodation problem has to do with the disgraceful housing crisis in which we have...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I cannot help but say that sometimes I have to pinch myself and ask if I am in a Parliament where there are Government and Opposition benches, because I have listened to have a dozen or so speeches from Government party Deputies in both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael lashing out of it the Minister for Health and previous Ministers and governments for this scandal. They are still, however,...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----to ensure this is changed and that something happens. That is the very least that they could do. Mairéad Enright said something very clear in her article in The Journal, that "the State is a peculiar ... defendant because it is the plaintiff’s protector as well as ... [the] opponent". That should mean the State must behave as a model litigant in cases against ordinary...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The litigation was the strategy.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Nobody said it was a strategy.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: And a member of Fine Gael.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for additional needs payments to date in 2023; if she can clarify the number of these that have been rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the long overdue national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6071/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify his Department's recent communication on accommodation and support for refugees; the reason that it discriminates between different refugees and specifically offers less support to international protection refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason exactly a GP cannot prescribe cariban on the drugs payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the majority of women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks of pregnancy and it is the case that a GP would be qualified to prescribe the drug and be automatically covered on the DPS; if he will clarify the reason that a GP...