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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (9 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to restore the full adult rate to persons under 26 years of age on jobseeker's allowance. [29761/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (9 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to link income and the income and earning disregard means test to the income of national minimum wage for social protection payments that have an income and earnings disregard. [29762/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration Licences (4 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all rental acreage fees paid to his Department fall due to be paid at the same time; if not, if this depends on the date of issue of the licence; and if the fees are paid in advance for the coming period or retrospectively. [28536/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (4 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget for SEAI grants for improvements in home energy efficiency; and his plans to expand the budget in 2020. [28537/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Data (4 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the applications for petroleum leases, undertakings and licences refused by his Department since 1995 to date; and if application fees were returned to the unsuccessful applicants. [28534/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (4 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a decision will be made on outstanding applications for petroleum licences, leases and undertakings; and if in the event of refusal to grant a licence, it is practice to return application fees. [28533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (4 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason one application in relation to applications for lease undertakings is outstanding for a number of years; the reason for a such delay; and when a decision will be made. [28535/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We have been debating An Post and its dilemma for some time in these Chambers, usually in the context of small rural post offices closing. I remember a time when there was a big row in this House about which Minister was responsible, whether it was the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, the Minister for Rural and Community Development or the Minister for Culture,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commission an independent investigation into the greyhound industry on foot of evidence of practices of widespread abuse and cruelty in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all funding to the greyhound industry will be suspended in view of a television documentary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28214/19]

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, lines 22 to 26, to delete all words from and including “woman-” in line 22 down to and including line 26 and substitute the following: “woman within the time of the Statute of Limitations,”. The reason for the amendment is that the Bill wants to put a limit on women accessing the tribunal of six months after they find out...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The argument is that it should not have any impact on the award from the tribunal, which may be judging from a different category of injuries. Therefore, why should the ex gratiapayment be subtracted?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have tabled amendment No. 14. This issue is important because anybody who knows someone who has suffered from cancer knows the return of the cancer can be much more distressing and dangerous than the original condition. It would be punitive not to allow for this. There is a likelihood in certain cases that the cancer will return later on. What will women do if they find themselves in...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: Asking the women to sign a waiver against making future claims may be desirable from the women's point of view in respect of the recurrence of the same cancer, and I am not talking about getting cancer of the eye or the brain later. If, however, the Minister's intention is to get women to partake and participate in the tribunal, there is a danger that this will discourage them from...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I take the latter point about participation by all sides. It is obviously what we need to achieve. What is required, however, is the signing of a waiver by the woman. That is what we want to remove. Regardless of the five-year period mentioned by Deputy Kelly, if there is a recurrence of cervical cancer in ten or 15 years' time, the waiver might mean that the woman would have no redress...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: It was a version of it.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: It was not about non-disclosure but about the whole package, the CervicalCheck system.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In non-disclosure.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister for the explanation, but may I finish my point? I am not trying to say the hepatitis C model is a direct copy-----

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: -----but it is absolutely wrong and the Minister, as the representative of the Department of Health for the State, has not proved, despite the Scally reports, that the arrangement between the State and laboratories in America was not at the heart of the problem. That has not proved to be the case and the Minister is jumping the gun by saying the State does not have responsibility. In fact,...