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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Review (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the commission for the future of the Defence Forces; the person who will be on the board; if representatives of the Defence Forces personnel such as an organisation (details supplied) will be on the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29106/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the issue of formal recognition of an organisation (details supplied) in order to represent the interests of Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the proposal that an organisation (details supplied) join a union as an affiliate body; if the affiliation will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of all contracts for goods or services, including drone technology, purchased by the Defence Forces from Israel and Israeli-based firms to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons recruited to the Defence Forces under the re-enlistment scheme announced in March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Immigrant Investor Programme (8 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of his Department’s submissions to the immigrant investor programme evaluation committee on the application for proposed development of a meat processing facility in Banagher, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29335/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I will take seven minutes and he will take three minutes. What jumps out at me immediately is that we must have this discussion, this debate, this row in context. I state that because everything is always relative and proportionate to the whole. This morning, I read in The Irish Timesthat a report from the Swiss bank UBS stated that during the height of...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Health and Safety Authority (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 155. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of workplace inspectors in the employ of the HSA; the estimated full year cost of their employment; and the number of businesses inspected by them in 2019 and to date in 2020. [28192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 156. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of workplace inspectors employed by the Workplace Relations Commission; the estimated full-year cost of their employment; and the number of businesses inspected by them in 2019 and to date in 2020. [28195/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the road passenger transport operators based in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Westmeath, Leitrim and Longford that received payment from her Department in respect of the carriage of free travel pass holders in each of the years 2015 to 2019; and the individual routes in respect of which payment was made. [28669/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants accepted for payment of the pandemic unemployment payment in August 2020 and separately in September 2020; and the number of these who have been placed on each category of payment, that is, €203, €250 and €300, in tabular form. [28676/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of disease control workplace inspectors in the employ of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC; the estimated full-year cost of their employment; and the number of businesses inspected by them in 2019 and to date in 2020. [28193/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (6 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspectors in his Department employed as inspectors at meat processing and food processing facilities; and the full-year cost of their employment. [28196/20]

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: We are all acutely aware that there is great fear across the country of the months ahead, the growing number of Covid cases and the dangers many people are facing in the coming period. The conflicting advice, confused rules and regulations and lack of clarity about what needs to be done and what we are doing from the Government are feeding into that fear. In this context, I would love to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am impressed the Minister started off his speech by saying his first priority is social justice and social rights. I would not expect anything else from the leader of the Green Party. He finished with more or less the same sentiment. In between, however, he read out some Civil Service claptrap that makes no sense to me. I do not think the Minister understood it. Does he expect 1,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I did not argue with that. I am telling the Minister what I want him to do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I want us to look at a few figures: 175 is the number of days that the Debenhams workers have been on strike and €175 million is the amount that was paid to KPMG to wind down Anglo-Irish Bank by the State. The value of the stock inside Debenhams is €11 million, and €11 million is what it would take to pay proper redundancy to the 1,000 workers and their families, namely...

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the opportunity, afforded to us by the Social Democrats' motion, to discuss this important issue. We recently celebrated, with some fanfare, the 100th anniversary of the Dáil. The statement adopted by the First Dáil 100 years ago reads: "It shall be the first duty of the Government of the Republic to make provision for the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procedures will be clarified in cases in which a school incurs multiple losses of teaching and other staff as a result of Covid-19 infections or needing to isolate as a result of close contact with infected persons; the procedure in cases in which as a result of such losses the staff-pupil ratio falls below the legal requirement as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which a primary school may be closed as a result of Covid-19 safety guidelines and multiple cases of illness and-or suspected cases of illness; the authority that makes such a decision; if her Department has oversight of or a final say in such decisions and the role public health officials play in making such decisions;...