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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation in relation to the home carers tax credit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14917/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if, he will examine the current reimbursement rates (details supplied) for travel connected with business and work for employees given rising fuel costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact that the lack of social housing is having on lone parents and their children (details supplied); when he expects that these parents who have been waiting for many years will be offered a social home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will use its seat at the United Nations Security Council to raise the plight of the people of Tibet; if Ireland will specifically raise matters that have been raised in recent reports by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of autism classes in schools in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she can advise parents to take in the case of a child who is due to start school in September 2022 but where a place in a co-educational school in Dublin 12 cannot be obtained (details supplied); if there are plans for the opening of a much needed new class at a school; if so, when places will be available; the steps that her...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who are in receipt of the living alone allowance will lose the allowance if they were to accept Ukrainian refugees into their home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that working lone parents who are employed for over 30 hours a week and subsequently lose their rent supplement but may still qualify for working family payment are increasingly falling deeper into poverty as a result of the loss of help with spiralling rents; if her attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if we will examine the possibility of Ireland and the European Union initiating a refugee programme for Tibetan refugees who are currently in India but who are facing appalling conditions with little prospect of safely returning to their homelands soon; if he will support a European Union response to their...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the financial and employment contributions that non-European Union students have made during long periods of study in this country; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many students would welcome the opportunity to obtain long-term residency stamp 4 visas in recognition of these contributions given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1039. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the occupational therapy in the long-Covid clinic at St. James's Hospital is being discontinued in April 2022 (details supplied); if he will provide funding to keep occupational therapy in the clinic; if will he further invest in a nationwide network of multidisciplinary long-Covid clinics to ensure that Ireland has the capacity and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 836. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that medically vulnerable persons are still at risk of serious Covid-19 disease especially now that all restrictions have been lifted; if he will allocate the highest priority to high risk and very high risk individuals in the guidance regarding the allocation of new antiviral and antibody treatments against Covid-19; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that supports services for an autistic child (details supplied) have been stopped; when they will recommence; the cause of this interruption;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14775/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1083. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made to include homeless and social care workers in the Covid recognition scheme as they are now included in the death-in-service scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15009/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: I confirm that I am in my office. I thank Mr. Keating for his opening statement. I have two questions. There is huge emphasis here on private investment, investment by developers and how to facilitate them in the Shannon Estuary. What happens if that investment fails to deliver or to reach the targets envisaged in the presentation? It is a large-scale investment at €100 billion....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am, and I would like to ask two brief questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: First, particularly to those who are involved in trying to incentivise the market, I personally find it quite depressing and quite shocking that everything is about a business opportunity and the incentivisation of the market when the context of these discussions is the most shocking point of the crisis of our of climate catastrophe that we have ever faced. It like not looking up while the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her officials will consider a recently published study (details supplied) which highlights issues regarding device accessibility and best practice; if she will consider the findings in relation to ensuring schools have a coherent policy to ensure devise access and equality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13445/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will support the opening of new classes at a school (details supplied) given that the school is struggling to accommodate new pupils in the coming year and that parents in the area are facing an impossible task in finding suitable mixed class schools in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Accident Investigations (9 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all the recommendations addressed to him in the Air Accident Investigation Unit Accident Report EI-ICR S-92A, 14 March 2017 published in November 2021 have been fully completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13213/22]