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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review (details supplied) of the effects of the Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2020 has been published and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if not, if he will clarify what the delay was, given that he has replied several times that the review was imminent; if he will now clarify the date for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to amend Article 19A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which allows for the provision of counselling therapy records of a victim of sexual abuse to be made available to the accused abuser; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20609/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 8 February 2023, if an exclusion order against a named person (details supplied) remains in place; if it was in effect on 3 February 2023 when the person was photographed at Shelbourne Park Stadium with a representative of Greyhound Racing Ireland after their greyhound finished first in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce legislation in the area of safeguarding for vulnerable adults; the status of the legislation; when it will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20654/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I hope I get quick answers like that too. Coming Paddy last, or second Paddy last, it is hard to have all your questions in your head. I want to go back to the question of hedging. According to all the explanations the witnesses have given about the market and how it works and EU legislation, there is a common set of powers across the EU and individual states implement their own set of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Does the commission expect be given further powers on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps another five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is a "Yes".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: What is the reason for our energy prices being so much higher than other European countries? I do not accept that. We are a tiny island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Can Ms MacEvilly provide a quick "Yes" or "No" answer to this question, please? Would she like to see the Government giving the CRU additional powers and functions, as other EU states have, to monitor what is happening in the market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms MacEvilly very much.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Another long-standing report we have been waiting for in this House is the review of the termination of pregnancy legislation. This welcome review has finally come through and it contains startling findings. However, I understand that the Business Committee has refused space for statements on this. The review will go before the Joint Committee on Health in three or four sessions, allegedly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21534/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21535/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the circular economy will next meet. [19918/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21536/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister about education and training board, ETB, adult education tutors. I will join them tomorrow outside the office of the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, for a protest. In 2020, the Labour Court issued a recommendation to sort out the messy contracts and pay scales and the fact these workers have to sign on during holiday periods. Nothing has been done about it. A month ago...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Great news.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently complete the stage 3 tender review currently with her Department (details supplied) and allow the school to progress the building programme as soon as possible; if she will acknowledge concerns about rising building costs affecting tenders meaning further delays for schools if tenders are not responded to quickly; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare and in doing so agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels. [21145/23]