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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 533. 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 not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to charge parents for after-school fees while the child is out of school term represents a back-door way to increase fees; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (4 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can detail any plans to provide funding for the installation of bike bunkers in urban areas; the funding that might be allocated to such schemes; if there are any plans to roll out such projects; if the recent withdrawal of plans by Dublin City Council can be reversed by Department policies aimed to encourage active travel; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether a report (details supplied) on free public transport is correct in its estimate of the impact of free public transport; the reason similar fare-free public transport schemes in other cities and regions have had a significantly greater impact than that suggested by the report; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can detail the position in relation to public transport companies hiring bus drivers; if shortages in staff are being addressed; the current number of staff shortages affecting Bus Éireann, Go Ahead and Dublin Bus; if he or his officials have had any discussion with these companies on plans to attract and retain staff,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the ongoing collapse of bus services in the lower Ballyfermot area, specifically the Number 60 route, is driving people away from public transport options and undermining confidence in public transport; if he is further aware of the refusal of the NTA to revise its failed plans; the issues that have arisen with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 260. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason that the community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO7 has not progressed, despite funding being made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20937/23]

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: No one could argue with the need for increased safety in construction and related trades. Next to farming, this sector has consistently recorded the highest levels of injuries and deaths. According to the Health and Safety Authority's figures for last year, seven workers lost their lives in construction. Between 2008 and 2019, 107 fatal incidents took place in the construction sector....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I wish to follow up on my earlier comments and questions to the Taoiseach and his statement at the opening of this session. His vision of a shared island is all about canals and bridges, tourism, enterprise, innovation and research. That is fair enough but we should prioritise health and, in this case, women's health. It must be a source of embarrassment that, having fought a campaign to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will raise the question of how a shared island works out when it comes to women's healthcare. When the repeal vote was won almost five years ago, it was famously declared that the North would be next. Now, however, we find that the North is way ahead of the Republic in its delivery of abortion care for women. Women have considerably more abortion rights in the North. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review (details supplied) of the effects of the Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2020 has been published and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if not, if he will clarify what the delay was, given that he has replied several times that the review was imminent; if he will now clarify the date for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to amend Article 19A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which allows for the provision of counselling therapy records of a victim of sexual abuse to be made available to the accused abuser; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20609/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 8 February 2023, if an exclusion order against a named person (details supplied) remains in place; if it was in effect on 3 February 2023 when the person was photographed at Shelbourne Park Stadium with a representative of Greyhound Racing Ireland after their greyhound finished first in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (3 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce legislation in the area of safeguarding for vulnerable adults; the status of the legislation; when it will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20654/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: This morning, I attended a press conference of a number of groups concerned about reproductive rights for women in this country in response to the report from Dr. Marie O'Shea. The Irish Family Planning Association said this is a landmark report which draws on extensive public health evidence and expertise. The National Women's Council said it is long-awaited and marks a critical juncture...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister. I still think the door is being held open. There is still creative ambiguity in the Minister's response. The Business Postreported last week that the Minister had conceded that Ireland needed to build an LNG terminal. This would be a reversal of a key policy of the Green Party because, as the Minister said, the world changed when the Nord Stream gas pipeline was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I reiterate that the Minister is not being explicit and is not clearing up the ambiguity. He is saying that we may well need some form of new fossil fuel infrastructure to store gas. He knows as well as I and anybody else in the House who takes any interest in the science does that it does not matter whether it is fracked gas or any other kinds of gas, it still emits methane and far too...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify the position in respect of proposals to build a liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister has now twice made comments that have held the door open to the building of an LNG facility here in the State. I wish to give the Minister an opportunity to state quite clearly what his, the Government's and the Green Party's position concerning the building of an LNG facility. I ask this because this aspect begs another question of whether the Minister accepts the report of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call in the Israeli ambassador to Ireland to establish the steps that are being taken in relation to the escalating violence by Israel on Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19618/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify reports on the Government support for LNG of some sort in the State and specifically how such a proposal is compatible with the State's climate obligations and targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19782/23]