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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if there are plans to provide an additional payment to those diagnosed with coeliac disease who have to follow a strict gluten free diet as prescribed by their doctor, and the substantial extra costs that entails when in receipt of a social welfare payment; if she will provide advice as to what those on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding in budget 2024 to extend the national treatment purchase fund to include timely assessment for both child and adult psychological services, as committed to in the programme for Government, and extend it to include occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy until backlogs are cleared; if he will fully fund...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I had planned to start with something else but I have to comment on the contribution by the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, tonight. It was quite something else to spend her minutes talking about the Future Ireland fund and to say this is the most significant thing any Government has done ever in this country, that is, to allow for €4 billion to go into a fund that will,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can detail the consultations his Department has had with GP representative groups regarding proposed changes to the tax treatment of GMS income, specifically the proposal to have this income declared as income by individual GPs who at present are in partnerships or have such income mandated to employers; if he can detail any research on the possible...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has a proposal to change the tax treatment of GP partnerships and their income from the GMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43976/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to extend the fuel allowance to jobs initiative scheme participants in Budget 2024, given their very low income and struggles with spiralling cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43468/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review an application for funding under the Cross Border Directive and-or HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied) with a view to granting the costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department and the HSE are aware of proposals to change the tax treatment of GMS income for GP partnerships (details supplied); if he or his Department was consulted on these proposed changes; if the HSE has examined the potential impact of these changes to the provision of GP care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43974/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to trial the use of curved paddles (details supplied) in the carrying out of mammograms given the high number of women who report pain and/or discomfort during breast screening; if he will consider that this may help improve the numbers returning for subsequent mammograms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44251/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason he has referred the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 to the Department of Social Protection, despite it being within his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44424/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State outline clearly the reason for referring the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 to the Department of Social Protection despite it falling within his own Department’s remit? The purpose of the Bill, which was before the House on Second Stage in June 2021, is to give retired workers a voice and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not know what "brought into the conversation” means. I asked the Minister of State to explain what was happening clearly. I received a letter stating that the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, had been asked by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to consider the Bill. When we met him, the Minister of State told me and the retired workers clearly that he did not have a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: As far as I am concerned, the Minister of State is giving an inaccurate reflection of the meeting’s content. The retired workers he met were representing 500,000 pensioners who used to work in the Civil Service and the wider public sector and who built up this State. It has happened in the past that changes to their pension pot have been negotiated for the benefit of employers and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: It has been kicked into touch. The Government amended the motion to stop it being passed that day.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the lack of progress to date on the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021, and the lack of alternative wording from his Department that would support the progression of the proposed Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason he has referred the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 to the Department of Social Protection; the particular areas he is seeking clarification on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expedite progression of the proposed the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that due to a lack of staff that the Limekiln Lane Health Centre in Dublin 12 has cancelled all two-year-old developmental checks; if he will acknowledge the upset and distress this has caused to parents (details supplied); the steps that are being taken to restore these checks; the timeframe for their resumption; if he will provide an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the purchase of second-hand homes by first-time buyers was not included in the help to buy scheme in Budget 2024; if he will commit to re-examining this position with a view to widening first-time buyers' opportunities to own their own home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (17 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 589. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the shortage of nurses, if the granting of NMBI nursing registration will be considered, after the successful completion of adaptation training or RCSI aptitude test, to those healthcare assistants with a nursing degree/diploma from their home country and who have been working in Ireland for at least two years; if he will acknowledge that...