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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fire Service Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review correspondence from a person (details supplied); the measures in place to financially support retained fire fighters that cannot secure full time employment due to their commitments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48326/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (15 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further new schemes will be approved in the event of Cavan and County Monaghan County Councils providing extra land found suitable for housing. [48277/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (15 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unoccupied houses awaiting acceptance of offer that each county council has on its stock book in tabular form. [48280/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Crime (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I sense from what the Minister has said today that there will be zero tolerance for criminality in rural areas. However, I must say that the McGinn family in Mountain Lodge and the McPhillips family in Kill do not feel the benefits of Operation Thor. The McGinns were faced with a criminal standing at their back door with a hurley in his hand and had to wait 40 minutes for a Garda car to...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Crime (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, for being in attendance for this debate on the important issue of rural crime. A public meeting was held last night in County Offaly to highlight an issue that has become an epidemic nationwide, unfortunately. I will give two small examples from my constituency. In recent months, there have been eight break-ins at people's homes across an area from...

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The point being there was no official call out for that company.

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I have a supplementary question. Have I come in at the wrong time?

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: It concerns the Creative Ireland programme. I do not mean to sound repetitive but-----

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: Yes. It is about the Creative Ireland question. With regard to funding, the Minister said it is not a funding issue but I am aware of festivals that received funding through Creative Ireland. Through the simple guise of putting forward an expression of interest they received funding as part of their festival. The Minister cannot say there is not funding going out from Creative Ireland....

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: So it is a funding agency.

Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: It is a funding agency.

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister cannot say it is not her responsibility. The Arts Council is independent but she still has to put the measures in place.

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I accept that but the Minister must have criteria in place.

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: There was not in this case.

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: They did not. That is the point.

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: Why is it not happening?

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which she will ensure that all bodies under her Department’s remit and those in receipt of funding from her Department make sufficient efforts to ensure that bullying and harassment do not happen in the workplace; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47854/17]

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I will forgo a reading of the question and let the Minister answer it. Is that okay?

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I had submitted this question before the Minister's announcement on 9 November in which she said she intends to introduce measures to address harassment and abuse of power in the arts and the cultural sector. This is important, and I acknowledge that the Government appeared to go to some lengths to distance itself from the controversies that erupted around the Gate Theatre and the National...

Other Questions: Bullying in the Workplace (14 Nov 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister keeps saying in all her replies to everyone around the House that she cannot interfere in HR matters. However, if HR and its board of management still do not have the facilities to deal with issues, that is our problem as legislators. We cannot wash our hands of it. Was the Minister aware of the findings of wide-scale harassment reported in a survey by Irish Equity last year?...