Results 81-100 of 553 for children speaker:Bríd Smith

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

Bríd Smith: 610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will change policy to ensure that all refugees will in future be provided with accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26005/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...testimony, Deputy Boyd Barrett put it very humanely when he said that almost half of those who travel will be people whose pregnancies are fatal foetal abnormalities. They have much wanted pregnancies and children, but they have discovered it will be impossible for that life to be compatible with life itself. Due to the restrictive 28-day limit and the criminalisation of abortion which,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22823/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 532 and 533 of 9 May 2023, if he can detail the steps his Department takes in cases where a service provider has beached the terms of the core funding agreement; If a company (details supplied) has broken the terms of core funding by imposing a charge on parents for...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...that we have progressed in this society or somehow become more liberal or progressive, there remains a deep-seated and deep-rooted crisis in sexual and gender-based violence, mainly against women, children and the most vulnerable in our society. No real progress has been made on eliminating that violence and sexual abuse. This survey confirms that. Today, the CSO finds that 52% of women...

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

Bríd Smith: 532. 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. [21145/23]

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 Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the reason an application for the building blocks grant from (details supplied) was rejected; if such service providers have any right to appeal such decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20132/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 341. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can detail in relation to the building blocks grant scheme, the total number of applicants who applied for these supports; the number of applicants who failed to receive the grant; the number of successful applicants, in tabular form, per county council area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...she not be? She has nowhere to crawl, she has nowhere to go and she has nowhere to play. The father suffers from depression. He is suicidal because he blames himself that he cannot provide a nest for his children. Fifteen months later, they are still there. In any society this would be regarded as inhumane, unacceptable and disgraceful and that is exactly what it is. This is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the impact of her Department’s decision to stall a much-needed second prefab block installation at Riverview ETNS; if she will acknowledge that children with additional needs are being particularly impacted as a result of building delays with the ability to provide small group teaching and other necessary interventions being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1533. To ask the Minister for Health when free GP-visit cards for children aged six and seven years of age will commence as announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17096/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures his Department is taking to inform all public bodies of their immediate obligations under the convention to prioritise disabled persons' organisations in all consultations affecting disabled people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15766/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that advocates for domestic violence sufferers are very critical of his failure to offer full pay to victims while out on leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15767/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revisit his emergency accommodation policy published on 24 January that announced a pause in provision of emergency shelter to international protection adults arriving to Citywest; the number of international protection adults who are currently without accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what supports he will put in place for people with disabilities facing eviction after the lifting of the eviction ban this week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his plans for improving gender equality. [12865/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...that will enhance their lives and allow their teachers and assistants to deal with them, assess them and teach them properly. We can safely say that in terms of its support for the inclusion of all children, especially all those with special needs, the Government is falling flat on its face. Tomorrow morning, in Riverview Educate Together National School, which located in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...why the procurement process for a contractor for a school (details supplied) has been halted; if she will acknowledge the need for an ETSS in this area to accommodate the significant number of children who want to continue their education in an ETSS; if she will reconsider the stoppage on the procurement process and allow this necessary secondary school be progressed as soon as possible;...