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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions that his Department has taken to ensure that SEAI schemes will not see homeowners forced to pay upfront the full costs of energy efficiency work undertaken by contractors from 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has had any communication with the Port of Cork authorities in relation to their support for an LNG facility; if the authority is bound by Government policy in relation to the development of LNGs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55314/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined the recent UN report which found that globally, the world is nowhere near reaching targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees' Celsius, and is on course for warming of over 2 degrees' Celsius; his views on whether global failure is mirrored by Ireland’s ongoing failure to limit and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that his Department has taken to ensure that the €200 electricity credit is received by groups who do not have an MPRN number, including persons on Traveller halting sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is reconsidering allowing post offices to become community banks, permitting them to provide all financial services and facilities that banks currently do but with increased advantages and value for communities and ensuring the survival of these important service providers into the future; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the failure to provide services on the new BusConnects 60 route in Ballyfermot; the measures that he intends to take to ensure that persons in this area of Ballyfermot have a functioning public transport system, given that the BusConnects programme removed the old 79 route for a planned hourly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Post Office Network (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is reconsidering allowing post offices to become community banks, permitting them to provide all financial services and facilities that banks currently do but with increased advantages and value for communities and ensuring the survival of these important service providers into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that owners of defective apartments in Dublin south central should take given that they have each recently received a bill for €8,500 to be paid within 30 days as the first payment for remedial work on their apartment complex; if he will acknowledge that this is an unacceptable financial imposition on these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports that many owners of defective apartments are facing immediate demands for substantial payments from management companies for remedial work, and in one case in Dublin, face the loss of basement car park spaces as a result of the enforcement of safety notices; when the residents of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to recent instructions to teachers and principals to conduct assessments of educational needs on behalf of the HSE under the AON process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will publish the child maintenance review group report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55119/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has any plans to act upon the recommendations and findings, when published, of the child maintenance review group report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55120/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the bonus payment for one-parent families will represent the full amount of the payment; if any maintenance payments usually made to the parent will be deducted from the bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 895. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports that there are persons who have lived for many years in Ireland who feel unfairly omitted from the recent regularisation scheme for undocumented persons; if she will acknowledge that there are those who have been living in Ireland for four years when their time in the asylum process...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications under the terms of the International Protection Act received by her Department in the past 12 months by month received in tabular form; if she will provide the number of decisions issued per month on family reunification for the same period; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1165. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1168. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to limit home births to women who live within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; if his attention has been drawn to reports that this would restrict birthing options for women and families in rural areas and that this also runs contrary to the national maternity strategy’s priority to ensure that “women have access to safe, high...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I enjoyed our guest speakers’ presentation and that of Dublin Bus, in particular, because I was struck by the fact that the advertisement it brought out for recruitment was very relevant. It showed all of these drivers being thanked and the slogan was to ask what other job could one do in which one is thanked hundreds of times a day. It is true, as Dublin is unique in that people do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I address my first question to the NTA and I wish to address a further question then to that body.