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Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (27 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 3019. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify procedures and processes around parental guardian consent in administering contraceptives in care home settings with a view to controlling monthly menstruation in a young autistic person (details supplied); if a parent, guardian should have the final say in whether this should proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40002/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will implement the comprehensive set of recommendations contained in the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, Safe as Houses? A Report on Building Standards, Building Controls & Consumer Protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38826/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to Government policy on conducting a public inquiry into deaths in nursing homes from the Covid-19 as recommended by the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (15 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made by staff in the HSE since 2010; the action taken to protect those making such disclosures; the number of protected disclosures that have led to actions or changes in policy as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31714/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 2: In page 6, to delete lines 34 and 35, and in page 7, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: " 'climate justice' means the requirement that decisions and actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change must — (a) support the people who are most affected by climate change but who...

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: Tá sé soiléir gur chearrbhachas atá sa Bhille seo. Tar éis na híobairtí go léir a rinne muintir na tíre seo, is náire é. Ní cheart dúinn díriú ar leas na ngnóthaí agus athoscailt a dhéanamh roimh go leor daoine le vacsaín iomlán faighte acu. This Bill is a gamble and in particular, we are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, an independent statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [37721/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: They are in the reply to a parliamentary question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: Between two and 20 monitors going to more than 3,000 primary schools is a joke.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Department of the Minister, Deputy Foley, a question. I received the answer this morning and I was alarmed by it. The question was whether the Department of Education would give some guarantee to schools that they will be provided with CO2 monitors before they return in August. Wait until I give the Taoiseach the figures, which are quite startling. I have been told a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: -----to this crucial issue?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: We now know ventilation is key and we are providing this tiny percentage.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: I would not even begin to try to do the maths on the tiny percentage of monitors we are providing.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been notified by a company (details supplied) of any proposals for redundancies; if such proposals ahead of a transfer of undertakings by it of a firm is in line with current employment legislation and TUPE directives that seeks to offer protection to workers facing such transfer of business; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to begin the consultation process in relation to the proposed Industrial relations (amendment) Bill that sought to grant representative rights to retired workers on issues relating to their pensions schemes; if this consultation process will involve the representative bodies of those retired workers affected; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Birth Certificates (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which parents of newborn children who have been unable to register their child’s birth can travel with their child for essential reasons to other countries in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30917/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will facilitate traditional Chinese leaving certificate papers in the future; if it will ensure that the correcting system can accept an answer written in traditional Chinese; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38362/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman for letting me in on the meeting to replace Deputy Kenny. A number of matters arise from the conversation and are not necessarily the original questions I was going to ask. This is not a criticism of the Minister but is an effort to find out what exactly he knows, does not know, and is being told about this because he was asked earlier how Deputy Varadkar was able to...