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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (27 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take to deal with the widespread breaching of rent increases in rent pressure zones; and if his Department is independently investigating such breeches or monitoring the levels of rent increases in these zones. [39091/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when legislation will be brought forward to enact new proposals on the State contributory pension scheme; when claimants will have their current contributory pensions reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38852/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget Measures (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budgetary measures she plans to take in view of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection's report on the position of lone parents published in June 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38853/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the growth in the use of sanctions by her Department against social welfare claimants on foot of their interaction with JobPath providers; if a review mechanism prior to the enactment of such sanctions will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38854/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to restore the bereavement grant and the fuel allowance grant to 32 weeks in view of the recommendations of a report by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38856/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the priority legislative proposals she will be bringing forward to deal with issues affecting workers such as the growth of bogus and precarious employment contracts, restrictions on the right to join a representative body and have it recognised by employers; her plans to include safeguards to existing defined benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services Provision (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the capital funding application received by the HSE for the project to redevelop the palliative care unit at Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross; if the application has been approved; and if HSE funding was allocated to this project. [38938/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Hospital Sector (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the costs to date of suspensions of staff at Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross; and the cost of external investigators hired by the hospice over the past five years to conduct disciplinary or other inquiries into staff. [38939/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Hospital Sector (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if section 38 and 39 organisation such as Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross are covered by the procurement guidelines that govern the hiring of external investigators to examine industrial relations of staff related issues in their organisations. [38940/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his reply to two previous parliamentary questions on the ISO accreditation of US-based labs stated that these labs had ISO status while the Scally report states they did not. [38941/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if screeners in US labs have the same levels or comparable levels of qualifications for screeners who examine cervical check slides here. [38942/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reference in the Scally report to the plans of a CervicalCheck provider to use laboratories in Australia to conduct future tests; if a risk assessment of such a practice will be conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38947/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE documents that relate to the procurement and tendering of contracts for CervicalCheck were destroyed in 2017; and the steps he will take to ensure all such documents are retained and available for scrutiny in the future. [38943/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the reason previous parliamentary questions that sought the identity of the labs involved in the false negative results that affected 221 women has not been revealed; and his plans to ensure this information is made available. [38944/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 169. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build up the capacity of public labs based here to conduct all CervicalCheck screening in the future on foot of the Scally report; if he will initiate a program of university graduate and undergraduate classes necessary to train the required number of medical scientists for such a scenario; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38945/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if future contracts or procurement arrangements with a provider for CervicalCheck services will place the emphasis on awarding such contracts on criteria other than costs on foot of the Scally report; and if he will instruct the HSE to examine the workplace conditions, qualifications and workload of such screeners or examiners of slides. [38946/18]

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I will be sharing time with Deputy Mick-----

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I apologise. It is just as well I am not on the European Union negotiation team. Deputy Burton finished on a point I want to raise. There are two types of Europe and for most ordinary people, the discussion of backstops, a hard border and borders in the sea is quite confusing. Most ordinary people probably think listening to such discussion is like watching paint drying.

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Most ordinary people see Europe as positive. It is the Europe that supposedly came together after the Second World War to ensure peace and an end to war, and to ensure that France or Germany would never again create war at the cost of millions of lives. It was to ensure that fascism and authoritarianism would never again take root. They want a Europe that sets standards for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister for what is a carefully crafted document. She does not give away too much and obviously has stuff up her sleeve. I congratulate the women and men who campaigned to have the measure regarding pensions reversed. In an extraordinary moment, the Minister took the megaphone from me outside the Dáil to address the crowd when she was first made Minister, and it was a...