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Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes, with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: I wish to raise the recent CSO statistics with the Minister. The CSO identified a slight decline in cases of the virus in cities but an increase in the number of cases in urban towns. It examined the figures for counties like Cavan and Monaghan. The number of cases hit its peak in April when Cavan had a high of 182 cases per week and Monaghan recorded 176 new cases per week. According to...

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes, please. I have a minute and a bit left.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports in place or that are planned to be implemented to aid small businesses (details supplied) that in attempting to reopen their business, find that employees previously availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme are unable to return to work, leaving many small businesses with no option but to recruit new employees that they cannot avail of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the campaign by parents in Crumlin, Dublin 12, for the re-opening of a school (details supplied) as an ASD specific school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8362/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that representatives of teachers in English language teaching colleges are represented and heard at the Covid-19 working group for the English language education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8732/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Department responsible for the Covid-19 working group for the English language education sector has sought or will seek the opinions and input of teachers in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8733/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 444. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the WRC or other body will take action or investigate employers that are implementing unilateral pay cuts often while availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme but insisting their employers work normal weekly hours, as a result of which is resulting in new hourly rates that are below the national minimum wage or agreed...

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

Bríd Smith: 690. To ask the Minister for Health his views on calls to facilitate visits by relatives and loved ones to the elderly in residential settings, for example, by using outdoor areas and timetabled visits with at least one or two family members per week; if he will request that nursing home managers prioritise planning to allow for such visits in the immediate future in view of the trauma...

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

Bríd Smith: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department received the HIQA report containing a list of nursing homes which it was of the view might struggle with the Covid-19 crisis; the actions taken on foot of this; if direct contact was made with these residential settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9327/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 692. To ask the Minister for Health the membership of the NPHET committee from its first meetings on Covid-19 in January 2020 to date; the persons added to the committee and when in each case; the reason for their inclusion; and the record of attendance of such persons at subsequent meetings of the committee. [9328/20]

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

Bríd Smith: 693. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure nursing homes, especially those in which there were clusters of Covid-19 cases and deaths, will meet HIQA standards, for example, in infection control in the coming months; the steps which will be taken to ensure adequate staffing levels, trained personnel and medical care are in place before the winter and a possible second wave or flu...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1342 of 20 May 2020, if he will clarify the role and function of the RTB in enforcing the emergency legislation that sought to provide protection for all tenants from eviction during the period of the Covid-19 crisis; and the reason the RTB is refusing to support tenants facing...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I understand that. The Minister gave me an extensive answer, and what she is saying now is written in that answer. I accept the women can avail of compassionate leave, parental leave and all sorts of things and that they can jump through hoops but I am going to argue with her strongly that we have extended, changed and adjusted legislation in this emergency for all sorts of things,...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Is Deputy Ryan not performing?

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Okay.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is because he will probably be a Tánaiste or something. We are all licking up to the Deputy.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: No, thanks. I am on the left side of him. I get ten minutes, do I?

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Okay. First of all, I want to repeat something that has been said here all day. There have been many Members denying in this House that there was a concerted campaign by the Government - some members of the Government and some Fianna Fáil backbenchers - to create this mythical cohort of workers who are doing much better on the pandemic unemployment payment than they were before when...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. If we run out of time, I will accept written answers from the Minister. Earlier I heard one of the Fianna Fáil Deputies say it is impossible to get everything right during a pandemic. Nobody doubts that, but I wish to talk again today about how wrong we got the care of our elderly. Yesterday showed me that the model of an overwhelmingly...