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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite the visa application of a person (details supplied). [35419/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1460. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount it would cost to restore the parental contribution cap for all participants availing of child care under the TEC schemes. [36410/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to extend the home-makers scheme for pensioners to cover those that were full-time home-makers prior to 1994. [36399/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to remove the qualifying time periods and allow immediate access for all qualifying payments for back to education allowance or community employment training. [36400/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to restore the income disregard to the OPFP and JST payments to €146.50. [36401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to increase the qualified child payments on all social welfare to €32.30 as recommended by the Committee for Social Protection. [36402/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to increase the qualified child payments for children over 12 years of age to €47. [36403/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to increase children's allowance by €47 for children over the age of 12. [36404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to restore children's allowance to all those under 20 years of age that are still in full-time education. [36405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to disregard the maintenance payments when assessing social welfare payment. [36406/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to means test carer's and disability allowances on net income rather than gross income. [36407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to fully restore all cuts to jobseeker's allowance for those under 25 years of age. [36408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Leave (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to pay all elected councillors maternity leave. [36409/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount it would cost to fully restore all cuts to the Traveller accommodation budget. [36412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land in the ownership of the local authorities that was sold or disposed of in 2016. [36413/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of all local authority land sales or land disposals yielded to the State in 2016. [36414/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested an independent valuation of each of the sites in the State’s ownership which he has identified as being suitable for mixed tenure developments on State lands and other lands in the Government’s action plan for housing and homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland. [36415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (26 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested an independent valuation of each of the 700 sites described on page 50 on the Government’s action plan for housing and homelessness, Rebuilding Ireland (details supplied). [36416/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: Like other Deputies, I read the earlier version of the Bill. There are substantial changes between the draft and this version. The hate campaign and class bias demonstrated by the former Minister in his attempt to win the leadership of Fine Gael, the campaign for Leo, however, remains as an attack on those who are allegedly committing welfare fraud. The other striking change is in the...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: I think Deputy Penrose likes the Minister.