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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to change the rules of the RTÉ pension scheme, or other similar schemes, in view of fears that there may be an effective €30 million or €500,000 per annum raid of assets of the pension savings of retired RTÉ employees and in view of the fact in 2019 he refused a 1% pension increase; and if he will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: Good.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 40. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will accede to the request from an organisation (details supplied) to allow it to affiliate to a body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37149/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: I and others have continually raised the question of PDFORRA and its affiliation to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, over the past number of years. The reason we support the campaign for PDFORRA to affiliate and to receive full recognition is not that we believe the ICTU is a panacea for all of the issues but that at least it would allow a systemic way in which Defence Forces...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: The Minister more or less just read back to me a reply to a parliamentary question I tabled in October. I really did not need that answer because, no matter what the Minister said, whatever moves have been made in the past 12 months have not addressed the situation of low pay, poor conditions and appalling accommodation in the Defence Forces. Frankly, it is insulting and does not address...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: At the PDFORRA conference this year, it announced it was lodging a complaint with the European Committee of Social Rights. This has led to the legal action about which the Minister spoke. The European Committee of Social Rights found that the Government was in breach of Articles 5 and 6.2 of the European Social Charter. PDFORRA has repeatedly said that the reason it wants to affiliate to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have always advocated to give soldiers, the Navy and the Air Corps more pay.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: Then let PDFORRA be at the ICTU table.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of firms that availed of the temporary wage subsidy scheme that the authorities are currently investigating to ensure they fulfil the criteria for access to the scheme; the number of firms that have availed of the scheme that have submitted audited accounts to the Revenue Commissioners; and the number of firms that have availed of the scheme and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the policy of all local authorities in relation to persons on their social housing waiting lists is to remove them from these lists if they at any stage during their time on the list exceed the income thresholds applicable; if so, if the policy is uniformly applied across all local authorities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approved housing bodies have the authority to decide if they will house tenants sent to them from the local authority social housing waiting lists following an interview with the perspective tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36982/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria used by approved housing bodies to allocate housing units in developments over which they operate which are not available to the local authority in their area for housing tenants from the social housing waiting lists; if these units are subject to any control or oversight by his Department in terms of rents...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units provided by approved housing bodies for social housing of those on local authority social housing waiting lists in each of the years since 2015; the total number of housing units provided by approved housing bodies since 2015, that is, units built, purchased, leased and so on by these bodies which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a self-employed recipient of the pandemic unemployment payment, such as a taxi driver, can work and continue to receive the payment; the stage in their gross earnings at which their payment will be affected; the way in which such a payment might be reduced depending on their earnings; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps a taxi driver needs to take if the or she is considering returning to work and if he or she presently receive the pandemic unemployment payment specifically; if he or she should notify her Department, the NTA or another authority if he or she wishes to resume work; if his or her payments will be affected...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the membership of the Pensions Commission; the date the Commission will commence its work; the time frame for the Commission to finish and report to Government; if she will consider appointing representatives of a group (details supplied) to be a part of the work and membership of the Commission; if the Commission will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has authorised a temporary cessation of waterbirth effectively limiting the options and choices of mothers further given the current Covid-19 restrictions with regard to partners attending maternity visits; the reason an association (details supplied) as providers of the service were not included in discussions prior to the decision to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if workers hired at the Clonskeagh testing centre during the Call for Ireland campaign are now being let go; the number of persons hired who are being laid off both in Clonskeagh and elsewhere; the reason these workers' contracts were not renewed; the details of their replacements; the status of their contracts, including duration; if these will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 865. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE altered the criteria and amount of refunds for the purchase of glasses and optical examinations that parents of children with disabilities can claim back in April 2020 as occurred in the case of a person (details supplied); if his attention or that of his officials was drawn to the change; the policy reason for the decision; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available from the HSE for parents of all children whose condition requires new glasses and ongoing treatment and examination each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37140/20]