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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the position of students who must repeat a year of their degree course; if he will ensure that they receive supports available to others such as the reduction in registration fees previously announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the case of a teacher (details supplied) who teaches an autism class in a school which has four other unfilled teaching posts due to a teacher shortage in which the person faces losing their position due to a refusal to issue a work permit to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-EU applicants can apply for positions advertised on a website (details supplied); if she plans to change current work permit legislation in relation to teaching positions given the current crisis in filling positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if teaching jobs advertised for teaching staff on a website (details supplied) which receive applications from persons from non-EU states residing in Ireland must also be advertised on another website to comply with current work permit regulations relating to positions not deemed critical skills; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a work permit to continue working as an SNA will be examined; if any exceptional circumstances or discretion can be applied by his Department to allow this person to continue working in the school given the crisis in attracting and retaining staff in this sector and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any flexibility in relation to the issuing of temporary work permits for jobs not deemed critical skills jobs in cases in which an applicant (details supplied) has commenced work in a position and where their removal from that position will result in extreme hardship to vulnerable people reliant on their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to revise current regulation and legislation regarding work permits and categories of critical skills in relation to teaching staff in primary and post primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can detail any steps taken by his Department to date to ensure the ERO for the security sector is enforced and implemented; the advice he has received in relation to the current injunction in implementing this ERO; if he can detail any meetings he or his Department have had with interested stakeholders; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that is available from his Department to help local authorities deal with outstanding issues of mould and damp in council flats; if retrofitting funding related to climate action can be provided in such circumstances, for example to help with costs of new windows in blocks; if not, if other sources of funding are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she can clarify if the PSA must take account of EROs approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas in its regulating of private security firms; the penalties there are for noncompliance by private security firms of such regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the position of a person on a graduate visa 1G; if any restrictions are placed on such a visa holder when applying for jobs in the State; if they can seek an extension of the visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is in need of a carer to assist them in their home but who is unable to source any carer and lives in an island setting has any entitlement to additional supports from her Department in terms of accessing home help and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the significant delay in providing a necessary assessment of needs and psychology appointment for a child (details supplied); when they will be seen; the steps he is taking to clear the substantial waiting lists for these services; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on children with additional needs and their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Irish Sign Language (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the voucher scheme for users of Irish sign language to access free ISL and English interpreting for social, educational and cultural events and services including medical and other activities and the remote interpreting on demand service, will be permanently established; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government Housing his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the correct pay scale will be applied to the salary of a teacher (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending the closing date for the building block improvement grant scheduled for Friday 25 November 2022 (details supplied); if he will acknowledge this difficulty and grant an extension for submission of required paperwork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to review the operations and workings of the core funding model and ECCE funding to childcare providers, especially in relation to the current cost-of-living crisis impact on smaller and local community providers, specifically if he has considered any increases or additional supports in funding...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will re-examine the position of providers who have not signed up to the core funding model in view of the current cost-of-living crisis and the difficulties faced by small providers of childcare services, and specifically the possibility or revisiting the issues around higher capitation and the PSP for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students who have to repeat a year during their degree course will not be able to avail of the reduced registration fees when doing so; the rationale for discriminating against repeat students like this who already face the added expenses involved in having to repeat such years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....