Results 61-80 of 553 for children speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare, and in doing so, agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if recent moves by a childcare provider (details supplied) are a breach of any undertaking given not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to increase childcare fees for 2023/2024 by designating the previous year's (2022/2023) fees as an introductory fee...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...have another 24 spaces. Many counties do not have any spaces at all and the truth is that many people continue to live with their abusers because they cannot go into homeless accommodation and put their children into hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation for years on end. I know many families who have been in homeless accommodation for two and three years. I repeat that I would...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...of the service in rural areas where the population is lower. There are fewer people to see or stand up to the kind of intimidation to which I refer. It is also difficult for GPs who provide a service from their homes when their children, going to and from school, have to pass these protests or have to deal with the abuse that ensues. It is really important that we deal with this matter...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who will receive a hot school meal in the new school term from September; and the number planned for the following year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31600/23]

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...date brings another cut-off point which allows this Government and the religious institutions to pay the least amount of money possible under some kind of a redress scheme. It will see so many women and children left on the wrong side. If a county home and hospital are on the same site and there is much movement between the two, how does one know what is really going on? A Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Workplace Discrimination (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to hold any review of the workings of the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 or the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015, specifically in relation to the rights of people with disabilities to take cases relating to workplace discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Grant Payments (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the names and addresses of all successful and unsuccessful applicants, respectively in relation to the operation of the building block grant strand B for childcare providers; the number of unsuccessful applicants within Dublin broken down into postal code areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 287. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the successful applicants from childcare facilities for the blocks grant strand B, by company name and geographical area, that is, either country or Dublin postal code, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Grant Payments (20 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Pobal will provide details on the reasons a grant application was refused for a child care facility (details supplied) in Dublin 10; if an application for this grant can be made again or when it can be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29739/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (15 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the reason that an autistic person's home support hours have been reduced by an autism support service (details supplied); what process to appeal this reduction is open to the person affected; if this person's care plan can be unilaterally changed like this; if the HSE will ensure that...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...for sub-minimum rates. She was a young worker in a Santa's grotto. Santa thought it was okay to pay her 80% of the legal minimum wage, while her colleagues, who did the same work and dealt with the same children, got the full rate of pay. She is not alone in having that experience. According to the Central Statistics Office, CSO, more than 150,000 people are on the minimum wage and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can detail the procedures and systems in place in the Citywest centre for IPO applicants, specifically in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28078/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...cost-of-living increases and their current and immediate impact. The report looks in particular at the past six months compared with the previous year and the impact these increases are having on children. It even states that they are "having an extremely detrimental or substantially negative impact on the health and well-being of the children in the families they support". The Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees who have not been provided with accommodation since the change of policy announced on 24 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26001/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the Minister is aware of it. I thank Barnardos for conducting the survey and shining a spotlight on this very important issue. The survey received responses from over 315 parents or guardians with children under the age of 18 in their care and found that up to half of them have had to go without heat, electricity, food, clothing or other essential items over the past six months.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps the Minister is not aware of the report, which is entitled Cost of Living Crisis: Impact on Children Report 2023. The Minister has not addressed the cost-of-living crisis and its impact in the immediate term. Instead he tells me that his Department has a strategy from 2023 to 2028. How does that resolve the issues for families, 57% of whom, when asked, said they could not afford to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 33. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers that participated in the core funding scheme but have subsequently raised fees for services despite the commitment in the scheme not to (details supplied); if his Department has received any complaints about this practice; if any service provider has done so; if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are available for people currently seeking international protection who are unaccommodated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25933/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...issued by his Department or the National Transport Authority when liaising with schools involved in the ‘safe routes to school’ programme around the use of cargo bikes by parents to transport children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25842/23]