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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: He has left.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat. The question of the national maternity hospital is hugely important to women in this country. If men could get pregnant, it might have been answered by now, but it certainly has not been answered. On 25 May, it will be three years since people voted overwhelmingly - more than two thirds - to allow women make a choice on the question on termination of pregnancy in their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [24252/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: It makes sense if you are a Palestinian.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [24665/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I think we are all grateful for the success of the vaccine roll-out so far. Long may it continue that there is no problem with supplies, vaccinators or any of the other organisational issues that have to be implemented. I echo what has been said about a people's vaccine. To restate the obvious, none of us are protected until all of us are protected. The crisis in India has not abated. In...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure the services provided and the ethos of the local employment services scheme are preserved; her views on whether current EU directives mean such services must be competitively tendered out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost and number of staff employed in operating the employer reporting facility established by her Department in March 2020 to enable employers to notify it regarding staff not willing to return to work while they continued to claim pandemic unemployment payments; the number of employees on the pandemic unemployment...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials along with Dublin City Council officials and representatives of a company (details supplied) have supported a number of proposals for the development of Moore Street; the actions he has taken to support such proposals; the details of meetings between his officials and others in relation to the Moore Street...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will acknowledge the significant impact that the Covid-19 pandemic and public health restrictions have had on young persons' mental health; if she will respond favourably to secondary school students' requests for the provision of a counsellor to schools to help address the mental health and emotional issues during and post public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address issues relating to carers and specifically the recommendations made by the Citizens' Assembly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26325/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. In January 2019, the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection examined the experience of JobPath and heard from researchers from the Waterford Un/employment Research Collaborative. One of the first things the researchers mentioned was the experience of the Traveller community on JobPath. Among other nasty experiences...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that will made to cater for the children in families who have members with serious underlying conditions and who remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 and therefore are forced to keep their children from schools at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24602/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I wish to ask the Minister about arrangements for children in families where a person has a serious underlying condition and remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 and are therefore forced to keep their children from school. Could she please make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I hear what the Minister is saying. She and I have had this argument, discussion or whatever she wants to call it, many times over, but despite the mantra the Minister has just read out, the fact remains that there are vulnerable people out there, including teachers. However, today I wish to focus on vulnerable family members who either have been vaccinated and are still vulnerable because...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am not going to get into a big argument with the Minister about the conditions in schools but, suffice to say that in Germany, for example, they are providing CO2 monitors in every classroom yet we are barely purchasing them here. I have a friend who is a teacher with a condition that makes her vulnerable and she begged her principal to allow her to teach from home because she feared going...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: Listening to that answer, the Minister has tied himself up in knots. On the one hand he says that it is a different type of service and deserves a separate pay body. On the other hand he says that it is required to be in line with public sector pay. Which is it? Is in line with public sector pay or is a special kind of service that requires a special body to deal with pay? Whichever it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: 8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeframe for the work of the commission on defence to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25107/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister outline the timeframe for the work of the commission on defence to be completed and make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am a bit concerned by the Minister's response because, in referring to the programme for Government, he stated the commission will be tasked with undertaking a comprehensive review, including of pay, allowances and the composition of the Defence Forces and recruitment, retention and career progression. A couple of weeks ago in The Irish Times, however, Aidan O'Driscoll was quoted as saying...