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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a chief executive of an ETB can demand that a doctor who has certified an employee as fit for work should certify that employee as unfit for work while awaiting an appointment arranged for the employee with the occupational health service; and if this is an breach of the protocols issued by her Department. [33399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the chief executive of an ETB can refuse an employee who has been certified fit for work by a doctor access to their workplace following a judgment of medical unfitness made by the chief executive in breach of the occupational health service protocols issued by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the chief executive of an ETB can arrange an appointment for an employee with the occupational health service when such is in breach of the protocols issued by her Department. [33401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if ETBs can impose different conditions of work on teachers who teach students in mainstream post-primary classes as against colleagues on the same contact of employment who teach students pursuing further education courses in relation, for instance, to availability of online teaching and staggered lessons; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to a person over 66 years of age who is impacted by the Covid-19 crisis and self-employed but cannot currently avail of the PUP payment due to current age limits. [33344/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person over 66 years of age who runs a business as a self-employed person and currently does not qualify for a PUP payment can avail of the employment support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33345/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1097. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the definition of a close contact for the purposes of Covid-19 tracing in primary and secondary schools; if this definition used by the HSE is in line with WHO and ECDC guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a definition of a close contact for the purposes of Covid-19 tracing; if this definition used by the HSE is in line with WHO and ECDC guidelines; if this definition is applied in primary and secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32324/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1266. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is handing over the governance, care and accommodation needs of vulnerable persons in sheltered accommodation to an approved housing body; and if he will further clarify issues (details supplied). [32840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1343. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to a medical card holder that is prescribed a drug (details supplied) prior to undertaking a colonoscopy; the actions a medical card holder should take in these circumstances; if there are alternative drugs available under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1362. To ask the Minister for Health if any HSE staff currently working on contract tracing have been redeployed from other services, specifically those involving speech and language assessments for children, occupational therapist services and NEPS psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33360/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the views of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on the issue of the placing of barriers to new entrants to the meat processing sector; his views on whether a submission from his Department to the immigrant investor programme evaluation committee in relation to a proposed facility...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1576. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the action she has taken in relation to whistle-blower disclosures made to and regarding a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32393/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an audit of an area (details supplied) took place in March 2020; and the actions that have been taken by the relevant authorities on foot of its findings. [32394/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1578. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the appointment by the local authority of an external person to work with a body (details supplied) in relation to ongoing issues there has taken place; and the cost of this external assistance. [32395/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (3 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1579. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a body (details supplied) was fined in 2015 by Pobal; the reason for this; and the actions taken by relevant bodies since to avoid a repetition of the actions that resulted in this fine. [32396/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Sometimes I wonder what planet I am on when I come in here. Deputy Howlin referred to very unusual legislation. Much of it is. Maybe it is because we are in unusual times. I have just thought of a name for this Bill: the Donnelly Dictatorship Bill. If we were to give the powers to the Minister that he is asking for, without any checks and balances, then our mental health would be lost....

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I sense not just a pandemic, but a panic on the part of the Government. This is all about deflecting from the really deep systemic problems this society is facing. We have seen the collapse of the tracing system with the domino effect on the testing system that we heard about this morning. Deputy Carthy just talked about a complete disaster facing the schools. Evidence was already coming...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Last night at 10 p.m., I submitted an amendment to go on the clár today but I was immediately told it was too late. I knew it was too late because at 7.30 p.m. I received an email telling me that I had to have the amendments in by 9 p.m. At 7.30 p.m. I was here embroiled in the debate on the mother and baby homes. I made a complaint to the Ceann Comhairle this morning about this....

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have a question and an observation for the Minister. I am watching the Twitter feed and Facebook and the main issue for people is the sealing of the archive for 30 years. Obviously, Tusla is a big issue, which is why we are pressing this amendment. If the sealing of the archive falls under another legislative measure, the 2004 Act, and if it is something that the Minister does not fully...