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Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Ideally the Government would like to not have to pay HAP and supplement landlords. People should have a home as they are entitled to under the social welfare system. That is a debate for Private Members' business. Deputy Boyd Barrett corrected me. The Minister is actually paying Peter to rob Peter. It is an ideological intervention to tell families they will be paid a family income...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the way in which jobseeker's benefit is calculated for those in casual or part time work or on temporary reduced hours, whereby it is not based on days worked but on income, so that no person is living below the poverty line; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39683/17]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister consider changing the way in which jobseeker's benefit is paid to casual and part-time workers and temporary workers on reduced hours? At present, it is calculated before it is paid based on the number of days worked rather than on the level of income people receive. Any supplementary income they receive from the State is based on the days they work rather than the income...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: If I have heard the Minister correctly, she has answered the wrong question because I am not asking for the system to be changed based on the hours worked but rather on the income received for the time worked. I will give the Minister an example. At present, people employed, for example for three days, receive supplementary income for the two days they do not work. If someone works 15...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will do so but I would like my question to be answered in terms of the income received rather than the level of hours worked. That is the change we need to make, that we look at the income people receive from their jobs and we do not supplement them based on the days or hours that they work, because increasingly Ireland is becoming a low-paid economy. We earn lower wages than most of the...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: The minimum wage is poverty.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: A single person is not entitled to family income supplement.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Benefit (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I probably have 10,000 of them.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will disregard means testing of maintenance payments with rent allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39684/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow persons seeking employment who have been awarded a place on a community scheme or Tús but not yet started, and who are pulled for JobPath before training starts, to be allowed to choose between the community employment scheme or Tús; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39681/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homemakers Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the homemakers scheme of contributory pensioners pre-1994 by reversing budget 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of daily checks that are carried out on drivers using bus lanes illegally. [39475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines that are issued daily to drivers using bus lanes illegally. [39476/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Injecting Facilities (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 446. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open an injecting room at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8; the timeframe to open the facility; the number of persons it is expected to serve; the opening times during the day; if this will be a pilot scheme or a permanent facility; the way in which it will be funded; and the length of time it is expected to be operational. [39474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences Data (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of parked vehicles that are towed out of bus lanes daily. [39477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (20 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for further disincentives to stop drivers using bus lanes illegally; and the details of same. [39478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and acreage of NAMA-owned properties and landbanks by property type (details supplied) and by county, in tabular form. [37576/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase primary and post-primary school places in the Cherry Orchard-Park West area of Dublin or in the wider catchment area during the lifetime of the current Dublin City Development Plan 2016 to 2022 (details supplied). [37094/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (11 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a licence issued by his Department for exploration of fossil fuels has an automatic right to renewal; and if so, if such renewal is dependent on the discretion of his decision. [38565/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount it would cost to fully restore all cuts to the Traveller education budget and supports. [36411/17]