Results 1-20 of 6,937 for speaker:Niamh Smyth

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the importance of apprenticeships in society moving forward; the steps that his Department is taking to address this matter to increase staffing levels in areas left short since Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/22]

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

Niamh Smyth: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of an educational setting (details supplied) in Cavan town as a hub for further education and training. [25106/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [24819/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her latitude. I want to talk to the Minister of State about the hydrotherapy pool in Enable Ireland in Cavan, which I was very privileged to bring her to see. I want to thank her publicly for the time she spent in Cavan-Monaghan to visit many of our disability services. I am sure she was as shocked as I was to see a wonderful facility lying closed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State for her positive response. There are questions to be answered as to why a pool has lain idle for the past four years. I know there is no point in going back and we need to be positive and look forward, but it is not good enough to say that Covid is the reason why a hydrotherapy pool has lain idle for the past four years. Covid has been going on for two years,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Documents (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if an emergency appointment will be arranged in order to get documents authenticated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24980/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be issued to a person (details supplied) on time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25002/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport of a child (details supplied) will issue in time for travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a child’s passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to ensure that the education curriculum tackles the issue of violence against women and provides sex education including consent in a clear and factual manner at all ages. [25217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to roll-out positive body image and anti-bullying training as part of relationships and sexuality education and social, personal and health education school curriculum. [25218/22]

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

Niamh Smyth: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to fix the anomaly in the legislation in order that women can defer their maternity leave while undergoing cancer treatment or any serious illness. [25219/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a query raised by a person related to the provision of childcare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25020/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost to provide statutory reproductive leave for women going through fertility treatment and for pregnancy loss. [25216/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to ensure that all women can access medication for hyperemesis gravidarium as needed. [25149/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to consider the caring responsibilities of women when scheduling healthcare appointments, recognising the particular difficulties raised by lone parents. [25115/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to fund training of healthcare workers on how best to tackle unconscious bias and ensure that women from all backgrounds can access information and the care they need when they need it. [25116/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to assign targeted health measures for Travellers, Roma, migrants and other disadvantaged women given documented differentials in health. [25117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to equality-proof all health strategies as per section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 with a focus on gender and intersectionality. [25118/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to expand the roll-out of contraception to all ages and to include longer-acting forms of contraception. [25119/22]