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

Bríd Smith: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department receives information as to the proportion of the revenue from excise duty on off-course betting paid into the Exchequer each year in relation to section 12, Part 4 of the Horse and Greyhound and Racing Act 2001 that is due to betting on the greyhound industry, betting on the horseracing industry and betting on other sports or outcomes; if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the working group on latent defects in apartment buildings set up in 2020; the interim findings of the group; if the group will be inviting submissions from affected apartment owners and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support a State redress body to fund remedial works for defective apartments built in recent decades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8031/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address weaknesses in the building regulations regime here including the enforcement of standards in relation to fire safety and other areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully implementing sections (details supplied) of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8449/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount her Department has spent on legal costs arising from litigation involving children with special educational needs; the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8450/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 861. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that published data indicates a Covid-19 mortality rate amongst kidney patients similar to that of residents of long-term facilities; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that expert medical opinion both here and internationally makes a strong case on medical and ethical grounds for the need for all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (17 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 914. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can travel to Ireland from the United States of America to reunite with their partner during level 5 restrictions once the person obeys the requirement for OCR test and guaranteeing; if the advice is that such a journey is non-essential; if so, if it carries a potential fine or legal enforcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing with Deputy Murphy. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am increasingly smelling a rat in this discussion and it may be a green one. The reason I say that is because when one listens to what this motion is trying to do, it is telling us that it needs to decommission the infrastructure from the now-exhausted pipeline near the Old Head of Kinsale but at the...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: First Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: First Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend certain rights and protections of retired persons and certain representative associations in relation to industrial relations and trade disputes and for that purpose to amend the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1990 and the Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2019, to make provision for enhanced representation of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I heard the Tánaiste tell Deputy Michael Collins that he does not know much about Barryroe, but he is probably aware that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, recently granted approval for survey works to continue or begin at Barryroe. I am not being smart, but I want to tell the Tánaiste and Deputy Michael Collins that since the Green...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that businesses such as marketing agencies that operate in settings such as colleges and universities are currently not eligible for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that although these companies' premises are not technically closed to the public, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a worker on a banded-hours contract whose contract is formally such that he or she would earn less than €151 per week is automatically excluded from the pandemic unemployment payment; if employees in a situation in which employees may routinely have exceeded the €151 per week payment prior to the pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an employee who is excluded from the pandemic unemployment payment by virtue of earning less than €151 per week but who is receiving less than his or her normal payment from his or her employer as a top-up can access supports from her Department or has an entitlement to seek jobseeker or other payments; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives that are available to a general practice nurse who is 22 weeks pregnant and who under the new guidance issued on 5 January 2021 is scheduled to receive a vaccine (details supplied) and who will be part of the team rolling out a vaccine clinic at their practice; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that NIAC have advised that the...

Appointment of Member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: While the board is new, it has seen hundreds of complaints from the public and others, more than 400 of which are still being addressed and investigated. The complaints seem to range across many issues, but one of the themes running through them is rudeness and a certain level of abuse by members of the legal profession. As such, it is welcome that there is some limited oversight of the...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I also want to focus on the issue of mandatory quarantine. Anybody who watched the RTÉ documentary last night about our public health workers would have been struck by the superhuman sacrifices they have made. Then we wake up this morning and listen to the Minister and other Government Ministers talking about what needs to be done. The utter disconnect between what we witnessed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lower the cost of road tax in 2021 given the reduction in car and road usage during the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of restrictions on unnecessary travel to work and leisure and intercounty travel; if his attention has been drawn to the refunds made by motor insurance companies to reflect this; if he will make similar...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given consideration to a declaration signed by several Ministers for Transport in the EU calling for certain measures to be taken to insure social responsibility in the aviation sector (details supplied); if he will sign this declaration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6991/21]