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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (13 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify his Department's response to the current impediments placed on the ERO for security workers; if he intends to take action on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if the names of the companies that access the temporary business energy support scheme will be published by his Department; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Energy Policy (13 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date that the social welfare double payment will be distributed; when the €500 payment for persons with a disability will be made; when the first €200 electricity credit will be applied to bill payers' accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the increase in the childcare subsidy for parents from €0.50 to €1.40 per hour will affect those currently on means tested childcare supports or just those on the universal scheme who do not receive means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 5 October 2022, if funding from her Department to the National Aquatic Centre was used for services provided by an organisation (details supplied); if so, if she will provide the details; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50461/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Educational Psychological Service (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational and child psychologists currently working in NEPS; the number of vacancies for positions in the organisation; if consideration has been given by her Department to funding trainee educational and child psychologists during their unpaid placements in order to ensure these positions are filled and the required number of...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 1: A. To insert the following after "training and development funding for Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs)": "- people with disabilities have faced a cost-of-living crisis for decades, and the 2021 Central Statistics Office Survey on Income and Living Conditions data shows increases in disability poverty across all indicators, at a time when the national...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: We will speak in that order. I am first of course. I welcome the temporary respite these three tranches will give people. They are not tranches of €200, but €187 in three bundles. The way I describe them is as temporary life-saving devices for people who are drowning in debt. The underlying problem has still not gone away. These grants will help to cushion up to 20% of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Has the Taoiseach no objection to the location of the conference, given the seriousness of this situation?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Can he not voice an objection as a leader?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach can voice an objection.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: We do not have to locate the Conference of the Parties in them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [44839/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: In less than a month, COP27 will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It is hard to believe it has been almost one year since Greta Thunberg famously described COP26 as "blah, blah, blah". I have just read an article by Naomi Klein describing COP27 as "blood, blood, blood", because it is taking place in one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the world, in Egypt, where about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the report on the transaction in relation to a company (details supplied) and the principles and policies within a corporation on interest rates published by his Department. [44838/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I note that the Taoiseach said in the past that the report was worthwhile. I agree insofar as it has shone a light on how things really work, how the business elite can take themselves off to a Swiss resort for a bootcamp and then not discuss what they really went away to discuss. Seven years later and having spent millions of euro of public money, we end up with a report that states that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Imagine how they feel. The Taoiseach is disappointed. They are waiting for the €1,000.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: They put their lives on the line for us.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding trainee educational and child psychologists in the same way that their trainee counselling psychologist colleagues are; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49973/22]