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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: After-School Support Services (21 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an undertaking will be given that he will meet representatives of community-based after-school services to discuss their grave concerns for the well-being of children at risk of long-term exclusion and marginalisation on foot of changes to the national childcare scheme funding structures for critically...

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

Bríd Smith: 433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if private crèches are required to register with and be inspected by Tusla prior to opening; the circumstances in which Tusla will undertake an inspection of a private crèche; his plans to introduce legislation to enforce annual inspections of all private crèches; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (21 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which community groups were consulted and the degree to which their views were represented in the research and evidence assembled to inform the design of the national childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45254/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Imports (16 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he intends to take to ensure that no proposal for a LNG terminal will be developed in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (16 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the changes he plans to make to current Government policy on climate action in light of the recent IPCC report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (16 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to sign the statutory instrument to allow for agreed pension entitlement changes to the CIÉ regular wages scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (16 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet representatives of workers in CIÉ who face reduced pension entitlements as a result of the delay in signing a statutory instrument to give effect to agreed changes to the CIÉ regular wages scheme; the timeframe for signing the statutory instrument given the numbers of workers adversely affected by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the decision to reduce or phase out the pandemic unemployment payment over the coming months with recipients moving to a more traditional social welfare payment, is causing significant anxiety particularly among low income families who are fearful of a marked decrease in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans in relation to consulting interested groups regarding the proposed legislation to grant access to the Workplace Relations Commission for retired workers that was deferred for 12 months in the last term of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to advance representative rights for retired workers especially in relation to access to the Workplace Relations Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to deal with threats to the State's power supply in the coming period, specifically actions in relation to proposed data centres; if he will support proposals for a ban on proposed data centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of the fines for service failures over the past two years for Dublin Bus and Go Ahead; and the reasons and formulae for deciding these fines. [43678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the fines issued to Dublin Bus by the NTA over the past period, specifically those that relate to the operations of the new PA hybrid bus; if his attention has been drawn to concerns (details supplied) that such fines are being issued erroneously by the NTA for failure to deliver services which have in fact operated; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure that all surplus Covid-19 vaccines, many of which are approaching their expiration date are immediately collected and dispatched to countries that need them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (9 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the issue of youth homelessness; the number of young persons who have become homeless in the past three years; the options that have been available in the past for such persons; the options that are available currently; his views on whether the current homeless hostels and shelters are not suitable for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (9 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 421. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date for the resumption of processing of applications for Irish citizenship via the foreign birth register which has been paused for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41998/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (9 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of passenger journeys for which her Department compensated the licensed transport operator under the free travel scheme in respect of each year from 2015 to 2020 and during the period January 2021 to June 2021 in respect of licensed routes numbers 481 and 482 and licence numbers 01019 and 99070. [41813/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Process (9 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 751. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 has not yet been fully enacted over five and a half years later; the definitive timeline for its enactment given the human rights implications of the anachronistic Lunacy Regulation Act 1871 which is still being used; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports of the inability to perform scans at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin; the manner in which this is impacting both the treatment of individual patients awaiting scans and the management of ward beds; the waiting times for scans in St. James’s Hospital; the impact of such waiting times on hospital bed usage; when this...