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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the position of students who must repeat a year of their degree course; if he will ensure that they receive supports available to others such as the reduction in registration fees previously announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the case of a teacher (details supplied) who teaches an autism class in a school which has four other unfilled teaching posts due to a teacher shortage in which the person faces losing their position due to a refusal to issue a work permit to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-EU applicants can apply for positions advertised on a website (details supplied); if she plans to change current work permit legislation in relation to teaching positions given the current crisis in filling positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if teaching jobs advertised for teaching staff on a website (details supplied) which receive applications from persons from non-EU states residing in Ireland must also be advertised on another website to comply with current work permit regulations relating to positions not deemed critical skills; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a work permit to continue working as an SNA will be examined; if any exceptional circumstances or discretion can be applied by his Department to allow this person to continue working in the school given the crisis in attracting and retaining staff in this sector and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any flexibility in relation to the issuing of temporary work permits for jobs not deemed critical skills jobs in cases in which an applicant (details supplied) has commenced work in a position and where their removal from that position will result in extreme hardship to vulnerable people reliant on their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to revise current regulation and legislation regarding work permits and categories of critical skills in relation to teaching staff in primary and post primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can detail any steps taken by his Department to date to ensure the ERO for the security sector is enforced and implemented; the advice he has received in relation to the current injunction in implementing this ERO; if he can detail any meetings he or his Department have had with interested stakeholders; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that is available from his Department to help local authorities deal with outstanding issues of mould and damp in council flats; if retrofitting funding related to climate action can be provided in such circumstances, for example to help with costs of new windows in blocks; if not, if other sources of funding are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she can clarify if the PSA must take account of EROs approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas in its regulating of private security firms; the penalties there are for noncompliance by private security firms of such regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the position of a person on a graduate visa 1G; if any restrictions are placed on such a visa holder when applying for jobs in the State; if they can seek an extension of the visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is in need of a carer to assist them in their home but who is unable to source any carer and lives in an island setting has any entitlement to additional supports from her Department in terms of accessing home help and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59930/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Retention is the problem.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: In particular for nurses.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Half of the beds in Linn Dara have closed because psychiatric nurses cannot afford to live in Dublin. There is a real problem with retaining nurses.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: In the same vein, I want to say this is the worst November on record for the trolley crisis. It is the last day of November today and it is the worst November on record. It has also been the warmest November on record so God knows what we will face when the weather gets really cold. We need to look at the health service in a very serious light. Figures tell us that in comparison with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59251/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to talk again about the risk to tenants who have to live in accommodation under reckless landlords. The tenants of Liberty Lane, Dublin 8, have for two years been paying €500 and €600 per month for a tin box with wires dangling around the kitchen area and bathroom area, and with two showers between 27 of them. Twenty-seven people now face homelessness in the weeks...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the national risk assessment. [59250/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have met the soon-to-be former residents of the unauthorised structure on Liberty Lane, in Dublin 8, and I have spoken to the fire officers who checked out the place. They have very serious concerns about this unauthorised structure. Planning enforcement from Dublin City Council, DCC, has ordered it to be closed, and 27 people will be without homes in the week before Christmas. My...