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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Support Allowance (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of full restoration of the telephone allowance including to those that may qualify but do not live alone; and her plans to address the issue in the next period. [15657/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commission a review to ascertain the number of workers per year affected by the six-day waiting period while sick from work; and the estimated cost of restoring the waiting period to three days. [15658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the possibility of widening the applicability of the home care credit in the calculation of pension entitlements for retired workers, specifically workers in semi-State organisations and bodies such as the Central Bank, who may have no entitlement to State contributory pensions and whose workplace pensions are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if legislation governing the pension entitlements of workers (details supplied) can be amended to allow women who raised families and took leave from their workplaces for those periods to avail of home care credits similar to those recently amended under the contributory pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for future funding of a society (details supplied); the amount of funding that will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and the Irish sign language academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15855/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the future funding of a society (details supplied); the way in which the funding will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and an academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15766/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a response will issue in the case of a back to education allowance for a person (details supplied). [15691/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to tenancy contracts by approved housing bodies such as a body (details supplied) which informs tenants that their tenancy can be ended if the body plans to sell the premises within three months, refurbish the premises, change the use of the premises or if it is deemed no longer suitable for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have a good few questions so I will ask them quite quickly and in a row. I thank the witnesses for their submission. I also thank Dr. Gráinne Flannelly for her very informative letter on how the whole system works. It was very well thought-out and delivered. The page where Dr. Flannelly talked about 28 April 2018 is a very important piece concerning her advice to the Department not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is not the completion of the review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. McCallion have a date for when he expect the reveiw to be completed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: With all due respect to Mr. McCallion and the RCOG, we were told last June that it would be completed in six months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Did Mr. McCallion check to see if there were laboratories available in Northern Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: There are a couple of questions that I want to have answered. I asked Mr. McCallion if Dr. Flannelly was a loss to the HSE. Is it unusual for the Department to reject advice from somebody as expert as her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is it unusual for the Department to reject advice from somebody as professional as Dr. Flannelly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: There is one question Mr. McCallion did not answer. That is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the supports available to women and their families, in his submission Mr. McCallion talks about a figure of 118 out of 125 slides. I asked him about the outstanding seven slides.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: My question was if the cases were subject to legal proceedings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. McCallion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Are you deliberately delaying us?