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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach needs to read more left-wing pamphlets.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: It should not be for profit.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Like broadband.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Because landlords would leave the market.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Government has never proven how it causes landlords to leave the market.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15156/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: We have probably all known for a while now that data centre operators have been developing their own energy capacity in recent years. We are all aware of the danger of the blackouts we were warned would occur over the winter months. These did not happen but the full extent of generation capacity has only recently been learned and revealed. It indicates just how considerable the energy...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Data centres do not provide many jobs.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. [15157/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: On behalf of People Before Profit, I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion, which we will be supporting. I specifically wish to say how incredible it is that in the third richest country on the planet, we cannot budget properly for the expansion of our education system and that we are making such a bags - to be frank - of the budgeting for the development of our schools. As has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to increase welfare rates for those on disability payments in light of additional costs and rising cost-of-living pressures; if any consideration is being given to the provision of a universal non means-tested payment for those suffering from long-term disabilities; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has made any provision for an increased budget for additional needs’ payments in light of the ending of the eviction ban and the likelihood of additional expenses being faced by people made homeless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15160/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to change the eligibility criteria for CE schemes to include persons in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15164/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify that people in district heating systems who have faced large increases in their energy bills can access additional needs’ payments; if any instruction has been issued from her Department to community welfare officers in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the last occasion when there was an increase in the energy part of the household benefit package; if she has any plans to raise this allowance in light of the ongoing energy crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15163/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the cost of installing an electronic timetable with real-time arrival times at bus stops that currently only have a sign; the estimated cost of installing a roofed shelter at bus stops that currently only have a sign; if he will clarify the process for applying for both, for a particular bus stop; if he will outline...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 21 March 2023, if he will provide more specific information on the existing internal complaints and appeals systems within local authorities, particularly in relation to appealing decisions regarding medical priority for housing applications; if he will consider implementing a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify why the procurement process for a contractor for a school (details supplied) has been halted; if she will acknowledge the need for an ETSS in this area to accommodate the significant number of children who want to continue their education in an ETSS; if she will reconsider the stoppage on the procurement process and allow...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Register of Electors (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will acknowledge the importance of encouraging young people to participate in the democratic process by becoming a registered voter; if she is aware of some of the difficulties young people have in trying to become a registered voter for the first time (details supplied); if there are plans to streamline the process...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if he has listened to and consulted with the trans community in relation to their healthcare needs and the provision of that care currently; if he will consider reviewing the National Gender Service in terms of international best practice and how it is currently working from the trans community’s perspective; if he will listen to the trans...