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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the situation of the service level agreement between Irish Water and local authority workers will be clarified; the number of workers covered by the agreement; the number of workers who have been requested to transfer fully to Irish Water to date; if his attention has been drawn to the number of workers who do not wish to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme is open to applicants who work less than 20 hours per week or are lone parents and in receipt of the one parent family payment. [12885/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can apply for both the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme and the enhanced help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12886/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful applicants who have applied in each year of the operation of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme. [12887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of plans for the amalgamation of three secondary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the budget for the amalgamation of three secondary schools (details supplied); if provision is being made for the inclusion of a new gym, canteen and car parking facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12897/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider appointing representatives of affected groups to the Pensions Commission such as groups (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12912/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing first year college students who have particularly struggled during the pandemic to be permitted to repeat first year while retaining all SUSI grants; if he will acknowledge that some students have struggled with having to conduct their entire first year online and have been impacted negatively in terms of mental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 803. To ask the Minister for Health when ninety persons in the over-85 years of age category who had appointments for Covid-19 vaccination cancelled without notice in Ballyfermot recently will receive vaccinations; if his attention has been drawn to the distress and confusion this has caused to the older persons that have been waiting patiently for their vaccinations and stuck rigidly to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 846. To ask the Minister for Health the reason two members of the same family (details supplied), both in their 80s, are receiving vaccinations at different times; if his attention has been drawn to the immense sacrifice and stringent compliance with public health advice older persons have made; the steps he will take to rectify the inconsistent and irregular delivery of vaccines within...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: It is worth reminding ourselves that International Women's Day, 8 March, grew out of the labour movement, the workers' movement, when thousands of women in New York in the early part of the 20th century - 1908, in fact - marched through the city demanding a shorter working week, better pay and the right to vote. The tradition continued right up until the Russian Revolution, when in the same...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: It is co-living, okay. The Minister gave them notice that there was a month to call this off, and within that month, there were eight new applications for co-living. I reference it because it is a significant problem in my constituency. The residents in the area of the Player Wills development, which takes in Player Wills and other sites around it, are themselves having to pay for a...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: Before the debate adjourned, I spoke about the question of cost-rental. Many Members who spoke before me pointed out the significant gaps in this Bill as well as the dangers inherited from the gutting of local democracy to the huge reliance on the private market to deliver. In addition to that, I want to highlight one section which alarms me. It is typical of the gap between the...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I listened to the Minister's speech the last time we discussed the Bill. I congratulate him and his speechwriter as it was a very fine speech indeed, full of high-flying rhetoric, full of absolutely correct observations about the housing crisis and the importance of housing as a basic necessity of life. It stated: ...the State has to step up to the mark to provide affordable homes for...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I have some observations on the specifics of the Bill. At one point, it states we need to counteract undue segregation in housing between persons of different social backgrounds. On the one hand, to any outsider, it would seem a laudable objective. Who wants segregation? In reality, however, for more than two decades I have heard this time and again, and each time the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the date vaccination of the over 70 years of age cohort will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12333/21]

Reopening Schools and Leaving Certificate Examinations: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am going to try to take four and a half minutes back and forth with the Minister and ensure I leave two minutes for Deputy Mick Barry. The return to school has been a double-edged sword for our society. On the one hand, there is the sense of joy and relief for children, their parents and teachers about going back but on the other, there is trepidation and fear. That is because we...

An Ghaeilge agus An Ghaeltacht: Ráitis (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: Ag ócáidí mar seo is minic go mbíonn daoine ag labhairt faoin Ghaeilge ar nós nach bhfuil ann ach caitheamh aimsire, mar theanga nach labhraíonn muid ach ó am go ham, nó mar atáimid ag déanamh anois le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge. Is mian liom labhairt, áfach, faoi thábhacht na Gaeilge ó thaobh chultúr agus stair na...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sure like the rest of us the Taoiseach remembers Phil Hogan, who long before he went to Europe and long before "golfgate", was in charge of water services. At the time, as well as threatening the population that he would turn their water down to a trickle if they did not pay water charges, he also did a deal with all 3,200 of those who worked in the water services so that they would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: I wish to respond to the Taoiseach on a number of issues. I understand there is a statement in the programme for Government to guarantee that water will remain as a public utility, but in fact a creeping privatisation is taking place by the outsourcing of functions. Irish Water declared it would begin a programme of replacing lead pipes, but it outsourced it. It declared it would undertake...