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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if social care workers who have provided essential frontline care at considerable risk to their own health during the pandemic to children, persons with disabilities and those at risk (details supplied) will be included in the recently announced €1,000 bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6094/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of progress that has been made in installing HEPA filters in childcare centres, preschools and crèches; his plans to complete the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make the changes sought by survivors to the Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme to include all survivors within the scheme with no minimum time provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expedite the implementation of measures identified in the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the International Protection Process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5411/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: We have a serious difference emerging between the Green Party and Fine Gael at least, as we are not sure of the Taoiseach's position, on the question of liquefied natural gas, LNG. The Minster for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, intervened with An Bord Pleanála and told it that under no circumstances should the Shannon LNG project be given planning...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Taoiseach what the difference was between him and the Tánaiste on the decision taken by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. There were a lot of us in Derry on Sunday. The People Before Profit Deputies attended the second demonstration in the afternoon while official Ireland, including the Minister, the Taoiseach, Deputy McDonald, etc., attended a morning demonstration. It was very good that official Ireland was represented at it and that we are unified in rejecting the idea...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach in his introduction mentioned affordable, social, cost-rental and help-to-buy housing but he did not say a word about strategic housing development, SHD, which is practically all build to let. In Drimnagh, Crumlin, Walkinstown and Ballyfermot, we have been swamped with applications for strategic housing development, which means there will be no sustainable communities and no...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has commissioned any polling of the general public related to possible or existing policies within the remit of his Department for the period 1 January 2021 to date; if so, if he will provide details of the policies; and the costs incurred for each individual poll. [2223/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (1 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a series of matters in relation to the regularisation scheme application process for asylum seekers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4909/22]

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle, for letting me in. I was struggling to make it here in time when the Government missed the last slot. I mentioned some of this earlier, but another Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, is present. The goals of the national broadband plan are laudable and, we in People Before Profit believe, essential for rural Ireland. The provision of the services to more...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State's last remark is unwarranted. He compared the roll-out of the vaccination programme to the debacle that we are talking about today. The goals of the NBP are laudable, but on every level, it fails at every metric. It is a disgrace. Most citizens feel that they are being bled, as if they are some kind of gombeens, for more than €3 billion of taxpayers' money...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Minister of State how he would politically stand over this debacle and the use of the quoted amount of €3 billion of taxpayers' money. Not all of it is necessarily contracted, but there is extra spending, such as on competitive outsourcing, which costs millions of euro. Millions of euro more will probably trip us up. It is interesting that much of the information about...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State's comparison with the electrification of the country is interesting, because I made it in the committee when this was being debated during the previous Dáil. A former Minister had to resign from his position because of an alleged scandal around it. The key difference is the one he just quoted, which is that we did not rely on private, competitive, for-profit...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the means by which invitations were issued to attend the event in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020 to celebrate winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council; if there were children in attendance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the time the event in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020 finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that general practice nurses have been excluded from the €1,000 payment announced recently; if his attention has been drawn to the significant role they have played (details supplied); if he will include such nurses in the recognition payment that many of their nursing colleagues will rightfully receive; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that general practice nurses have been excluded from the €1,000 payment announced recently; if his attention has been drawn to the significant role they have played in being the steadfast backbone in health screening, vaccination, disease management, triage and much more in addition to their role in the management of the public health...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the inclusion of a person (details supplied) in the formation of the terms of reference for the review on Army sex abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3952/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social care workers who have provided essential frontline care at considerable risk to their own health during the pandemic to children, persons with disabilities and those at risk (details supplied) will be included in the recently announced €1,000 bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3797/22]