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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ask HIQA to investigate the misdiagnosed slides of the 221 women involved in the CervicalCheck scandal; and if this investigation will identify the laboratories involved and the cause of the errors committed in these laboratories. [41940/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if he will expand on the term "available evidence" which he stated in his reply indicates a very high level of compliance with the microchip legislation; if his attention has been drawn to the feedback from rescue groups that there is an extremely low level of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if there is a legal aspect of the microchip legislation under review; if so, the detail of same; and the cause, possible implications and proposed timeframe involved until the issue is resolved. [41898/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the procurement team will announce its decision on the remaining bid for the national broadband plan, NBP; the way in which this procurement process can have competitive tension with just one bidder; if it remains open to the team to reject this bid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41215/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the formal or informal discussions he has had with representatives of the remaining consortium competing for the national broadband plan. [41214/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contingency plans in the event that the remaining bid for the national broadband plan is deemed untenable by the procurement team or otherwise becomes inoperable; the estimated costs of the NBP; the cost to date of the tendering process undertaking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41487/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Supports (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments or supports available for a foster parent who fosters young children and that as a consequence is not available to seek full-time work and thus will not qualify for jobseeker's allowance. [41445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Expenditure (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment made by Tusla for fostering is not taken into account when means testing a foster parent's entitlement to social welfare payments; and the support available when the only payment entering such a household is the Tusla foster care allowance and child benefit allowance. [41446/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA has interests, current or historical, in lands or debts connected to the current difficulties of a company (details supplied); and the detail of these interests and transactions, including dealings connected with the company or other companies. [40796/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 297. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 165, 166 and 171 of 26 September 2018, if he will answer the specific questions (details supplied) contained in the original questions which to date his reply did not answer. [40928/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions and-or penalties applied to the benefits of jobseekers applied in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [40936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions and-or penalties applied to jobseekers on foot of information supplied by JobPath providers since the commencement of the JobPath programme by year in tabular form. [40937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for carer's allowance refused on an initial application and before a review or appeal of that decision took place in each year since 2010. [40938/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews and appeals of decisions to refuse carer's allowance that were successful with the application being subsequently approved in each year since 2010. [40939/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances that gave rise to the delays in construction of social houses at a company (details supplied); the way in which tenders were awarded to a firm that had significant debt; if a vulture fund is involved, the person or body from which that fund acquired the original debt; and the steps being taken to remedy the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances that gave rise to the delay in finishing social housing projects connected with a company (details supplied); his plans to finish these units; and if a vulture fund is involved in the debt problems at the construction firm. [40621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number who have been granted the requested loan; and the counties in which these applicants reside, in tabular form. [40920/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to in Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 27 September 2018, the 30 sites referred to as projects supported by the local infrastructure housing activation fund by county, in tabular form. [40921/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I apologise in advance if my voice sounds a little "gappy". I have a chest infection. We should celebrate today because it is historic. It is amazing to be here and to be involved in helping to shape this legislation. I saw both the Minister, Deputy Harris, and Deputy O'Connell, at the March for Choice last Saturday. It was a celebratory event and even months later, winning the...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister said we were not protestors but lawmakers. However, there are many ways to protest. Shakespeare famously said in the play "Hamlet", "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." She was not outside the castle with a placard, rather she was talking too much because she knew that she was guilty and her only way of covering up her guilt was by trying to talk her way out of it,...