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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the plight of students who enrolled in a private college (details supplied) will be examined; if the cost of this online course will be examined and the students granted access to the Gaeltacht grant of €650, which they are at present excluded from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that SNAs attending the national training programme for SNAs in UCD, which has been running since January 2021, have yet to be informed as to the type of accreditation they will receive when they complete their studies; if the importance of SNAs being awarded a significant qualification upon...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene with the WWETB, Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board, to ensure that help is being provided to the new board of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of the review into the conduct of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that a member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (details supplied) does not have their membership renewed given their opposition to Covid-19 restrictions and their views on gay rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9586/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 910. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements have been made to vaccinate persons in exceptional cases in advance of scheduled surgery whose surgeons deem them as extremely high mortality risk during and after surgery should they contract Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1131. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will clarify the position regarding the conditions attached to interdepartmental assistance which demands the resignation of the board of an organisation (details supplied); and if a forced resignation is contrary to the protected disclosure legislation and in circumstances in which the whistleblower had been assured covers...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1132. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure that action is taken by her Department to support the new board of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1133. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will fully investigate a protected disclosure in relation to an organisation (details supplied); if she will allow an orderly timeframe for addressing the issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (24 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will intervene with the relevant local authorities to ensure that help is being provided to the new board of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10191/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Those were very interesting contributions. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan said earlier that if he stood up in the Dáil and called for the reinstatement of the west Cork railway, he would be scoffed at. I would applaud him because I think that is the future, particularly for long-term planning and freight. We have so many trucks on our roads - dirty, big, smelly and dangerous vehicles...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: There seems to be a push to get all the kids back to school and it is understandable that people want that. It was said in yesterday's Irish Independent that it has figures that show that the cohort of people next most susceptible to Covid during the third wave are young people, from ages 16 to 18, and so reopening the schools has huge implications. Has the Government ensured that the work...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I will not comment on what I think of the report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes, whether it is good or bad or what the problems with it are. That is not what I am here today to try to do. I am here to best represent the interests of the survivors who have been pleading with all of us. I doubt there is a Deputy in the House or a Senator in the other House who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I want to take up a question that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Connolly, raised yesterday, namely, the question of the destruction of the files from the commission on mother and baby homes. I am sure the Tánaiste and everybody else in the House is aware of this because everybody will have received emails about it from the survivors and their representatives. I am making a plea to...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Approximately ten months ago, I first raised the issue of meat plants and Covid outbreaks with one of the Minister's predecessors, whose response was an angry defence of the industry and the meat plants. That was a foolish response and, at worst, negligence because as we all now know meat plants are epicentres of Covid infection, often leaving vulnerable migrant workers at risk and the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2000 in relation to section 12 Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 given in Irish pounds and in terms of Euro according to the official conversion rate from punts to euro for 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2001 in relation to section 12 Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 given in Irish pounds and in terms of Euro according to the official conversion rate from punts to euro for 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 for each of the years 2002 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8783/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that was determined for the years 2002 to 2019 to be equivalent to the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2000 in relation to section 12, Part 4 the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 as increased by reference to the consumer price index for each of those years in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer in 2020 in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8785/21]