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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding in budget 2024 to extend the national treatment purchase fund to include timely assessment for both child and adult psychological services, as committed to in the programme for Government, and extend it to include occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy until backlogs are cleared; if he will fully fund...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of how the €500,000 funding that was made available in 2009 for a memorial to honour all survivors of all State-run industrial schools is to be used; if she will outline details of the proposed memorial; to provide a timescale for when it will be in place; if she will acknowledge that survivors are eager to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare, and in doing so, agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if recent moves by a childcare provider (details supplied) are a breach of any undertaking given not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to increase childcare fees for 2023/2024 by designating the previous year's (2022/2023) fees as an introductory fee...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (28 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials in his Department have held any meetings with a company (details supplied) or any other individuals or companies representing another company in relation to the prospect off Corrib, also referred to as the Inishkea gas prospect since January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify what changes are proposed for the bus services in Crumlin, specifically routes 83, 17 and 18, and when they will be implemented; if he can detail the proposed replacement routes that the NTA is currently planning to introduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any current schemes or plans to introduce schemes to help people who, due to serious medical illness and history of same, have failed to obtain mortgages from banks and other lending institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the costs to the Exchequer each year, in tabular form for the diesel rebate scheme since its inception in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 404. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1391 of 27 July 2021, if she will provide an update on the parental alienation research mentioned; if she will clarify how far advanced the research is; when the results will be published, given the urgency and number of families affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to the automatic provision of medical cards to people with a spinal cord injury based on certified medical needs, rather than means; if he will extend the review cycle for medical card holders with a spinal cord injury to ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41385/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Bord Bia should be funding climate disinformation about the supposed 'sustainability' of Irish milk, given the state of the climate and biodiversity crises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he will support a ban on coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34760/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action is being taken by Government to reduce emissions and prevent even further biodiversity loss in the context of extreme sea temperatures that have been seen this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action is being taken by Government to tackle the continued extreme deterioration of our water quality driven by increased nitrates and our industrial agriculture model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34757/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to scrap the detaining of asylum seekers in Cloverhill Prison, or any prison, prior to deportation as soon as possible given that they have not committed a crime; her views on the criticism of this practice by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds who were microchipped and registered in the Irish Stud Book whose year of birth was 2021, reminding him that Rásaiocht Con Éireann has the power to request this information from the lrish Coursing Club under Section 26 (1) of the Greyhound lndustry Act 1958; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Inquiries (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the progress of the public inquiry into nursing home deaths during Covid 19, which he promised in January 2023. [32555/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify if there are plans to amend section 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 as amended by section 39 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 so that a sexually abused child or adult will not have their private counselling or therapy records made available to the accused abuser; if she will clarify the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to undertake a review of the fair deal scheme; if he will detail the precise terms of reference that would underwrite such a review; if he intends either within the context of such a review or independently of such a review to establish the level of charges that nursing home residents are incurring from their disposable income for daily...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection who have applied from Ukraine since the Russian invasion; if applicants who were not in Ukraine at the time of the invasion are accepted into the temporary protection to persons fleeing the war in Ukraine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25934/23]