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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: May I get an answer from Ms Ní Sheaghdha on long Covid and Covid as an occupational disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Meat Processing Plants (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the HSA has conducted an inspection of a meat processing plant (details supplied) to ensure recently arrived workers here are being facilitated by the company to quarantine in line with public health advice prior to commencing work at the plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to retrofit windows on Irish Rail trains given the evidence-based role of fresh air ventilation during the pandemic; if Irish Rail will ensure there is a sufficient number of personnel to monitor the required and correct wearing of face coverings by passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6070/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pandemic unemployment payment recipients who have received demands for tax owed as a result of the payment. [6182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to pandemic unemployment payment recipients who are being taxed on incorrect estimates of the payment by the Revenue Commissioners; and the number who have contacted his Department as a result of incorrect figures. [6184/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that have sought protection from evictions or notice of termination under measures introduced in December 2020, that is, rent arrears as a result of the Covid-19 crisis; the number who have received assistance and advice from MABS as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6185/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be changes in 2021 to SNA allocations; her views on whether it has been an extremely difficult year for all those working in education; if a commitment will be given to clarify and provide information in relation to SNA allocations for 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6145/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the present status of St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; if the hospital was used as a stepdown facility for Covid-19 patients in 2020; the cost of repurposing the facility for this purpose; the plans for the facility in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (4 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a specific meat processing plant (details supplied) has provided for workers who have recently arrived here to quarantine in line with public health advice before commencing work at the plant; if inspectors from his Department at the plant have oversight knowledge or any regulatory role in relation to workers who have recently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 21 January 2020, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the inability of SOLAS to provide apprenticeship placements under current circumstances is resulting in delays of 15-plus months to apprentices receiving the necessary qualifications and that as a result their earnings are being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify and address the fact that persons with cerebral palsy have been listed by the HSE in the high-risk category in respect of Covid-19 but do not appear as a high-priority group in the vaccination schedule; if it will be ensured that persons with cerebral palsy will receive priority in the roll-out of vaccinations; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech therapists and occupational therapists in the HSE who are redeployed to contact tracing or other Covid-19-related posts; the details of all other HSE staff redeployed from their usual post for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5253/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: 928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for allowing greyhound racing to continue when hare coursing has correctly ceased during level 5 restrictions; the further reason for allowing an activity to continue in a confined space with persons travelling from around the country to various stadiums which is considered unsafe given the unprecedented high level of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: In the greater scheme of things and in the middle of the Covid crisis, I am not sure that the issue I am raising is the most important one we could discuss. However, it struck me when I saw the story in question that it fitted well with the old adage that one should never waste a good crisis. Had we not been in the middle of a Covid lockdown and restrictions, the ESB might not have moved as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Minister's answer seems to have come from the textbook of the ESB. I have a statement in front of me from the company which says: Since 1991, there is a changed landscape in terms of historical and heritage offerings, with many museums and heritage alternatives now available. Our commitment to heritage activities is now more closely linked to our corporate responsibilities. The ESB...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: I have two questions for the Minister. The first is on extended parental leave. In the list of priority legislation for spring, we are told that the heads of the parents' leave and benefits (amendment) Bill have been approved but that a timeframe for pre-legislative scrutiny is still to be determined. The National Women's Council of Ireland and others are waging a campaign to have the...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: Could I ask another question?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. It is quite tragic listening to all the cases for urgent vaccinations, whether for midwives, carers, ambulance drivers or people involved in funerals and so on. The reason for that tragedy is that our vaccination programme is a shambles and there are reasons for that other than the lack of vaccines. They include the underlying weakness in our...