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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (15 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can clarify the policy of her Department in relation to the provision of free period products in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7487/23]

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

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will mandate his Department to examine the introduction of public provision of childcare, as recommended by the expert group report Partnership for the Public Good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Period Poverty (15 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify Government policy in relation to tackling period poverty; if they are supporting the passing of the legislation currently at Seanad Committee stage; if they intend to provide free products at secondary levels as well as third levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7486/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank our guests for attending. The first thing that jumps out at me is that it is a no-brainer that energy-efficient homes are very important. They are also healthy homes that are climate friendly as well as being more cost-effective. Yet we have an extraordinary situation in this city and others whereby local authorities seem to think it is okay to leave people, particularly those in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Armstrong. It is good to know there is a video and a document but I am speaking about hundreds, if not thousands, of families who have been living in atrocious conditions for decades. If funding is available then either the political will or the active will is not there because nothing has been done about them. I will be back on to the Department about this. I want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to return to the targets. We have fallen well short of the targets in recent years. To reach the target now we would need to complete approximately 5,400 homes per year between now and 2030. Does Mr. Armstrong honestly see us being able to do this? Is he telling us - without telling us - that most of these targets will be back-ended to a period between 2025 and 2030? The targets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Armstrong.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if current or proposed protections from disconnections to heating and lighting supplies are applied in relation to district heating system residents; if the CRU will have any regulatory control over district heating systems in the near future; the number of residents and homes presently covered and supplied by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funds are available for local authorities from his Department to refurbish social housing units, specifically to install double glazed windows in housing units such as Emmet Building, Dublin 8, in response to ongoing concerns over mould and damp and also as measures to reduce energy consumption and emissions; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure funding is made available to Dublin City Council in order to renovate the Iveagh building in the Liberties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is binging any proposals to permit the automatic granting of permission for wind energy projects that have been waiting for over two years for planning approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7359/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 831. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report on the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7279/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health workers entitled to the €1,000 pandemic bonus who remain unpaid; the position of staff in private nursing homes; the number of these who have received the bonus to date; the number of those who have not received the payment; if home help and care providers who continued to look after persons in their homes during the pandemic are...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The litigation was the strategy.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Nobody said it was a strategy.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: And a member of Fine Gael.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I cannot help but say that sometimes I have to pinch myself and ask if I am in a Parliament where there are Government and Opposition benches, because I have listened to have a dozen or so speeches from Government party Deputies in both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael lashing out of it the Minister for Health and previous Ministers and governments for this scandal. They are still, however,...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----to ensure this is changed and that something happens. That is the very least that they could do. Mairéad Enright said something very clear in her article in The Journal, that "the State is a peculiar ... defendant because it is the plaintiff’s protector as well as ... [the] opponent". That should mean the State must behave as a model litigant in cases against ordinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will start by quoting an Afghani international protection applicant who arrived in Ireland on 26 January: "I have nowhere to go, I'm tired and I'm afraid I will die in the cold." This was when the Government announced it had no more accommodation for international protection applicants. On top of that are the 5,000 people who have the right to leave direct provision but are still stuck in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I recognise the changed landscape to which the Minister referred, but I wish the Government would recognise that that change is taking place in the middle of a housing crisis. There seems to be a refusal by every member of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to recognise that a large part of the accommodation problem has to do with the disgraceful housing crisis in which we have...