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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to pay all elected councillors maternity leave. [36409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount it would cost to fully restore all cuts to the Traveller accommodation budget. [36412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land in the ownership of the local authorities that was sold or disposed of in 2016. [36413/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of all local authority land sales or land disposals yielded to the State in 2016. [36414/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested an independent valuation of each of the sites in the State’s ownership which he has identified as being suitable for mixed tenure developments on State lands and other lands in the Government’s action plan for housing and homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland. [36415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested an independent valuation of each of the 700 sites described on page 50 on the Government’s action plan for housing and homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland (details supplied). [36416/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and acreage of NAMA-owned properties and landbanks by property type (details supplied) and by county, in tabular form. [37576/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase primary and post-primary school places in the Cherry Orchard-Park West area of Dublin or in the wider catchment area during the lifetime of the current Dublin City Development Plan 2016 to 2022 (details supplied). [37094/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a licence issued by his Department for exploration of fossil fuels has an automatic right to renewal; and if so, if such renewal is dependent on the discretion of his decision. [38565/17]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the way in which jobseeker's benefit is calculated for those in casual or part time work or on temporary reduced hours, whereby it is not based on days worked but on income, so that no person is living below the poverty line; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39683/17]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister consider changing the way in which jobseeker's benefit is paid to casual and part-time workers and temporary workers on reduced hours? At present, it is calculated before it is paid based on the number of days worked rather than on the level of income people receive. Any supplementary income they receive from the State is based on the days they work rather than the income...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: If I have heard the Minister correctly, she has answered the wrong question because I am not asking for the system to be changed based on the hours worked but rather on the income received for the time worked. I will give the Minister an example. At present, people employed, for example for three days, receive supplementary income for the two days they do not work. If someone works 15...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will do so but I would like my question to be answered in terms of the income received rather than the level of hours worked. That is the change we need to make, that we look at the income people receive from their jobs and we do not supplement them based on the days or hours that they work, because increasingly Ireland is becoming a low-paid economy. We earn lower wages than most of the...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: The minimum wage is poverty.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: A single person is not entitled to family income supplement.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I probably have 10,000 of them.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will disregard means testing of family income supplement with rent assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39685/17]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I refer to the means testing of family income supplement, FIS, for rent assessment. I ask the Minister to disregard the means test. When a person is due for a rent assessment FIS is taken into account. Given the current climate, where rents are very high, it negates the purpose of having family income support when it is taken into account for the payment of any support. I ask the Minister...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I take issue with the Minister's last sentence. HAP has not been very effective. Every Deputy in the House knows that and during today's debate on housing we will point that out clearly to the Government. The Government is not listening. The point is that one arm of the State gives a payment to people who are in receipt of low income, namely, FIS. Another arm of the State then...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Ideally the Government would like to not have to pay HAP and supplement landlords. People should have a home as they are entitled to under the social welfare system. That is a debate for Private Members' business. Deputy Boyd Barrett corrected me. The Minister is actually paying Peter to rob Peter. It is an ideological intervention to tell families they will be paid a family income...