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

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure that adequate accommodation is available for refugees arriving in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6070/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I had a lot more to say but I am under time pressure. I will revisit the question of those living with district heating systems. Many of them are approaching a lot of Deputies. These systems are not regulated by the CRU so they do not fall under any regulation. The utilities can charge what they like. They charge much more than what the Minister and I pay for gas coming into our homes....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will write to the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare officers to deal with applicants for additional needs' payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6073/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister to provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare offices to deal with applications for additional needs payments and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I believe we will be able to say with confidence that it is unlikely that the increase the Minister has allocated for exceptional needs payments is going to cover the demand. We are increasingly seeing, as the Barnardos report showed yesterday, that people who are earning substantially more - I know the CWOs have discretion - are also running into real difficulty with the energy crisis in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for additional needs payments to date in 2023; if she can clarify the number of these that have been rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the long overdue national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6071/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify his Department's recent communication on accommodation and support for refugees; the reason that it discriminates between different refugees and specifically offers less support to international protection refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason exactly a GP cannot prescribe cariban on the drugs payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the majority of women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks of pregnancy and it is the case that a GP would be qualified to prescribe the drug and be automatically covered on the DPS; if he will clarify the reason that a GP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clearly outline the process through which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6376/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [3412/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: We can say we have formally legislation passed by the Dáil that has provided equal pay for equal work, but we need action. Really, the question we should be discussing here is how we can address it through union organisation and the right to join a union to fight for this equality.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: There is some homework.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [4421/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am glad to see the Taoiseach's Department is bringing down the gender pay gap, which is good. However, an 11.2% average nationally is still not good enough. Women earning less than men in comparable jobs is something that should be confined to the history books and should not be the current situation in the 21st century. It is also worth noting that there is a gender pension gap and that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Very good, and the Taoiseach will use his voice and insist. Fair play to him.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Leave to Withdraw [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to withdraw the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2022.