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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a report (detail supplied); if his attention has been drawn to this issue; the actions he is taking on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15192/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card holders should be charged for tests (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15235/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the mechanism or procedure being put in place for same; the way that staff might be contacted if eligible for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if this is a matter his Department is reviewing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15278/22]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I welcome members and our guests, who are joining us remotely. Before we proceed with business, I want to attend briefly to a housekeeping matter. I ask the witnesses to bear with me while I do so. Can I take it that the draft minutes of our previous public and private meetings, of Wednesday, 23 February and Wednesday, 9 March, respectively, are formally agreed and there are no matters...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms Curtis for her very comprehensive opening statement. I am sure it will ignite many questions for my colleagues. All members have seen the speaking slots that have been circulated, so they know the order in which they are to contribute. Each has five minutes for questions and answers and I ask that they bear that in mind to give Ms Curtis and Ms Craig enough time to respond....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Go ahead. I will give Deputy Mythen the time because there are some members absent.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I must stop Ms Craig there. We will have time to extrapolate those points a little further. I must excuse myself for a short time. I have another commitment this afternoon, for which I must leave temporarily. In my absence I nominate Senator Shane Cassells to take the Chair until I return. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Munster for that line of questioning and Senator Cassells for taking the Chair in my absence.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the witnesses. We have almost reached my turn to ask questions. Do any of my colleagues wish to ask any further questions? I call Senator Malcolm Byrne, on whom we can always rely to ask a second round of questions. I will ask my questions as part of the wrap-up.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Mythen. All of my colleagues have had the opportunity to ask the questions they wanted answered. I thank the witnesses for their comprehensive answers and replies. Apologies that I had to step outside. I hope that in my own questions I am not repeating something that has already been asked. Forgive me if I am. I am struck by the observations that are very accurate and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I have one final brief housekeeping question. I raised with the Tánaiste in the Dáil Chamber yesterday the publication of the report on the Future of the Media Commission. It is difficult for all of us, not least the witnesses, when we are working in a vacuum without having that information. As my colleague, Senator Cassells very eloquently and robustly put it, it is a pity we...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Are there people with those skills in Ireland or will we have to further afield to recruit the 180 staff who will be equipped to do this important work?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Given that Ms Craig's organisation has only 40 staff and the commission will be scaling up to have 180 staff, what areas would the people with the required skills set come from to scale up the staff to that level?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: Ms Frances Haugen was before this committee a few months ago and she told us there were only around 200 people in the world who were qualified to do some of the work she was talking about. We may have to throw the net far and wide but, that being said, it is wonderful to see it actually happening. There is a bright future ahead and, it is hoped, an air of excitement within the Broadcasting...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I wish to discuss the Future of Media Commission and the publication of its report. As the Tánaiste knows, the report was completed approximately six months ago. Speaking as Chair of the Oireachtas committee with responsibility for this area, our committee is hamstrung without the report's publication. Tomorrow, we will welcome the chair designate of the Broadcasting Authority of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current procedure to avail of enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of all Budget 2022 social protection rate and threshold increases including whether any have yet to be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14823/22]