Results 1-20 of 392 for children speaker:Bríd Smith

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...15, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“(3) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Minister will prepare a report for the House on the situation of lone parents who foster children but who are not the legal guardians of the children and therefore do not presently qualify for lone parent payments. This report shall examine any cases and provide costings of...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Minister acknowledged that the absence of special needs education negatively impacts on the children and on their families. We have witnessed that in the desperate need for additional supports for children and their families evident on the media over the past few days but it is a joke to dump it all on the teachers and the special needs assistants. All of us, every single Deputy in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (28 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding available to implement the action plan for school age children; and the way in which this will deliver affordable care for children out of school hours. [15134/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1443. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to 35 children with cystic fibrosis who are being denied access to the life-changing drug Kaftrio due to a new pricing dispute between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE; his views on the fact that those with cystic fibrosis over the age of 12 years have access to the drug and it was also made available to 140...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (6 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if children taken into care are being accommodated in hotels in recent months; if this is a regular situation; the steps he plans to take to ensure children in such situations are provided with appropriate care and accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36226/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: In accordance with the Equal Status Act, all children should have equal access to courses and facilities in schools where they are available to others. There are approximately 500 teenagers and children across the country who themselves are healthy but who live with medically very high-risk, VHR, parents or siblings. These VHR forgotten families have been lobbying the Minister, Deputy Norma...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (13 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the much-needed therapists for ASD children at a school (details supplied) will be in place; when a nurse will be recruited for the school, given that some children cannot attend a full day at school due to the lack of a nurse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55674/23]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is not that she applied for lone parent payment for the foster children but that she came looking for assistance about what to do. She said she was removed from lone parent payment because her own children no longer qualify but she is still a parent because she fosters two children, and social protection services are now telling her that she has to sign on for jobseeker's allowance.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the figures for the use of medication in treating children and adolescents with mental health difficulties; the number of children being medicated; the proportion of children attending CAMHS who are on medication; the type of medications used; the duration of treatment by CHO area in each year since 2008; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...up a time and with management knowing the Office of the Ombudsman is coming. I know it is not the remit of the Ombudsman but I have been reading the report published in May by the Ombudsman for Children's office on the same issue. It is interesting to hear what children say about prearranged visits by RIA. These visits are supposed to look after their interests but children told the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provision that is being provided to assist parents who use childminders or relatives in view of the fact that the majority of children are minded by local childminders or relatives, and considering the Growing Up in Ireland ESRI report which confirmed that children minded by childminders and relatives have fewer emotional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (13 Jul 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 will include leave entitlements equivalent to maternity leave entitlements for all couples who have children through surrogacy; the help and support that will be available to those who have children through surrogacy given the extensive costs involved; if there are plans to help those who...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (21 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to the concerns of community childcare services in the Dublin 8 area that the national childcare scheme is putting the education and well-being of nearly 500 vulnerable children in Dublin 8 and in excess of 5,000 vulnerable children across the country at risk on foot of changes to the funding...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (21 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an undertaking will be given to restore adequate funding to ensure continuation of after-school services from 1 October 2021; the steps he will take to ensure access to after-school projects for all children in DEIS areas; if he will work with community services to design a sustainable and appropriate model...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: 271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason some essential workers whose children were offered places in creches and who are not taking up the offer of a place for their children are facing penalties from the crèche providers and still being charged for the child’s place; if his attention has been drawn to same; if his Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (28 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress of taking in unaccompanied minors from Calais and on the setting up of the national project office to care for these children. [15133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 671. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she will protect the rights of children to ensure that they are not further marginalised through the enactment of new legislation (details supplied). [24412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will take to ensure that parents and children have access to suitable places under the affordable childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31297/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and recognition of children with dyspraxia and DCD with the new allocation model of SNA teachers and a guarantee that these children will not be at a loss of support [50138/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Health when the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced to allow both parents in a same sex marriage the same rights with regard to their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27109/18]