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

Bríd Smith: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been consulted about proposed restructuring of educational welfare services within Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49891/22]

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

Bríd Smith: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she supports the proposed restructuring of Tusla given that the policy and finance remit of education welfare services sits in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those pensioners who may qualify for the fuel allowance under the new threshold limits will be automatically granted the payment; if not, if they must apply; if so, if they must apply in advance of 1 January 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the additional €400 one off payment for recipients of the fuel allowance that will be paid in 2022 will be made available to those who will be granted the allowance in January 2023 under the new threshold limits given the cost-of-energy-crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the categories of welfare payment recipients (details supplied) that will receive the November 2022 cost-of-living double payment. [49582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the provision of a women's refuge centre in Carlow; the immediate supports that will be provided to women seeking refuge in Carlow given the latest report released by An Garda Síochána, which showed that half of all murders in Ireland in 2021 were linked to domestic violence; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank our guests for coming in and for their presentation. I want to refer back to district heating because we discovered last week as part of the energy and cost-of-living crises that the existing district heating schemes are not regulated by the CRU. Did the SEAI know that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: So Ms McCarthy was aware that district heating schemes are not regulated by CRU. The cost to the individual homeowner is about three times the cost she or I would pay, plus they cannot go to bonkers.ie and move to another supplier because they are tied in. Was she aware of all of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Because we are all stuck for time, I want to make the point that the definition of one versus the other should be clarified because thousands of people, particularly those living in apartments, are being subjected to punitive rates of energy costs and they do not have the option to go to bonkers.ieand move supplier, which is serious. If the SEAI can make any progress in developing that, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Yes. I am baffled by the decision of the SEAI in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: That is not what I am referencing. This contractor has been informed by the SEAI - I have this in writing here in front of me - that changes to the individual energy upgrade grants to come into effect on 1 January 2023 will mean that the homeowner is liable for the full cost of the works upfront. That is what I am referencing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I can send Mr. Randles a copy of this letter. It clearly states that changes to the scheme are forcing this contractor to refuse to apply for the grant on behalf of homeowners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have to go. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request a meeting with Iranian representatives to express Ireland's outrage at the treatment and killing of protesters especially the many young women who have been killed in recent weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49079/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if recent statements and actions by the Government have resulted in a diminution of Ireland's policy of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49080/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have had energy efficiency work completed since 2015 by scheme (details supplied); and the projected and planned totals for the coming years to 2030, in tabular form. [49199/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if new rules criteria are being applied for part-funded schemes operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland for home-energy efficiency grants, namely that recipients must have a pre-and post-work BER rating, that applicants must pay the full costs of any work up-front prior to the SEAI subsequently...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applicants who are currently awaiting approval for work for each of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland home-energy grants schemes; including one-stop-shop services, part-funded schemes and fully-funded schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he plans to take, to provide those who were subjected to differential treatment in childcare institutions with effective remedies, through the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, in particular to provide redress for the harms caused due to racial discrimination and systemic racism; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: DNA Database (6 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the database in relation to the mother and baby homes that will hold samples of family members’ DNA will be established; when the gathering of the necessary DNA of extended family members will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49208/22]