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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My question to the Minister is about the scoping report into the death of Shane O'Farrell that was insisted upon by the previous Minister, Deputy Flanagan, over two years ago. It is almost 11 years since Shane O'Farrell was killed in his home town of Monaghan. There has been a litany of failures by the State in delivering justice for the O'Farrell family. This delay is compounding that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I acknowledge that the Minister's answer is progress from the previous answers we have received. Being on the verge of completion is not an answer as to a timeframe. It then has to go to the Attorney General for his view and that will be sought before there is any publication of the scoping report. I remind people generally in the public that this scoping exercise was sought as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of autism classes in secondary schools in the Dublin 12 area; her plans to increase the number of available places for autistic young people in post-primary education; the expected timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the extension of parent’s leave from five to seven weeks scheduled for July 2022; when this will commence; if the details will be provided in order that parents can start to make plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26454/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I missed the very beginning of the meeting because I was out on the picket lines. As a starting point, Dr. Ciaran Byrne mentioned there is a single homogenous definition of communities. I want to tease out what that might be. For example, back in 2018, I met a sixth-year leaving certificate class from a boys school in Sutton who came regularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Can we ensure that their installation is accelerated in areas where people are keen to charge their electric cars but have no access to charging points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their answers. If there is an application to power a school by solar, will Ms Buggie explain why it has to involve two different technologies? Why is solar not sufficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Would reviewing that approach be worthwhile?

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I will begin by acknowledging all the communities out there. There are very many across my own constituency and they are growing daily. They are really engaged and energised in direct action to fight to help repair and preserve the biodiversity in their neighbourhoods. It is great to see it. I want to thank Jane Stout and Micheál Ó...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the progress made to date or planned in enacting legislation to protect workers in cases of mass redundancies including a recent case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the progress made in enacting the workplace ventilation Bill and its provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the threshold of incomes that apply to SUSI applications; his plans to reverse recent changes which may exclude more students from accessing the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail any work his Department is undertaking to analyse the reason the numbers qualifying for SUSI grants has fallen over recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that was used by her Department in 2000 when the decision was taken to commence the direct provision system; the studies, risk assessments and policy deliberations and so on that were conducted by her Department at the time; the advice that the advisors Government and external advisors relied upon to support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have had difficulty with my computer this morning but I am on the campus. I heard the Minister's comments to Senator Warfield and I thank her for coming before us today. She said the facts were up to date in information and education is required for this in schools, particularly in RSE. I have not heard that sex education should not be ethos-based. I raise this because the Citizens'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Could I respond very briefly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My response to the Minister, whom I thank, is that she has not answered the question I asked. I asked whether she endorses and whether it is part of her plan to have non-ethos-based sexual education in schools. The Minister mentioned everything else, such as how information should be fair, informative, accurate and scientific, but I asked her specifically about the non-ethos-based sexual...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients receiving the household benefit package and the fuel allowance; the number who are in receipt of both payments; when the last rise in the fuel element of the household benefit package took place; and if there are plans to raise the amount in the coming period. [25299/22]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is hard to know what is left to be said about this debacle, other than for me to be very critical of how the Government has behaved over the past two weeks. The Government brought us into this Chamber, into repeated committee meetings and into media debates under a pretence. That pretence was that it was willing to engage and listen to the concerns of the Opposition, the women of Ireland...