Results 261-280 of 7,970 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (12 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that due to a lack of staff that the Limekiln Lane Health Centre in Dublin 12 has cancelled all two-year-old developmental checks; if he will acknowledge the upset and distress this has caused to parents (details supplied); the steps that are being taken to restore these checks; the timeframe for their resumption; if he will provide an...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I had planned to start with something else but I have to comment on the contribution by the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, tonight. It was quite something else to spend her minutes talking about the Future Ireland fund and to say this is the most significant thing any Government has done ever in this country, that is, to allow for €4 billion to go into a fund that will,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to trial the use of curved paddles (details supplied) in the carrying out of mammograms given the high number of women who report pain and/or discomfort during breast screening; if he will consider that this may help improve the numbers returning for subsequent mammograms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can detail the consultations his Department has had with GP representative groups regarding proposed changes to the tax treatment of GMS income, specifically the proposal to have this income declared as income by individual GPs who at present are in partnerships or have such income mandated to employers; if he can detail any research on the possible...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has a proposal to change the tax treatment of GP partnerships and their income from the GMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43976/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to extend the fuel allowance to jobs initiative scheme participants in Budget 2024, given their very low income and struggles with spiralling cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43468/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review an application for funding under the Cross Border Directive and-or HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied) with a view to granting the costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department and the HSE are aware of proposals to change the tax treatment of GMS income for GP partnerships (details supplied); if he or his Department was consulted on these proposed changes; if the HSE has examined the potential impact of these changes to the provision of GP care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43974/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Some of our best and brightest brains gathered outside the Dáil within the past hour to demand a living wage. Earlier in the year, through engagement with the Minister, Deputy Harris, PhD students had their income increased to €25,000 a year for full-time work, but that impacts on only 30% of the total PhD student population. The rest of them are creased trying to live in this...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We support the Bill and believe, to echo what others have said, that it needs amending. We would welcome an answer from the Minister as to whether he is open to amendments and if and when the framework as to when the Bill might be passed would be outlined to us. We have been through an epidemic of misogyny and gender-based violence, violence against women. Sometimes, when you stop and think...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I think Deputy Wynne is next. We are Paddy last.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We are not allowed to be nice to each other.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houseboats currently moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation; if, in the event the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, he will outline the projected number of houseboats that will be permitted to moor on these canals; the projected number of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current mooring fees levied on houseboats moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation under the existing canals by-laws; if he will outline, in the event that the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, the mooring or houseboat permit fees that will be levied...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider commissioning a new consultation process in line with the Government’s Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making regarding Waterway Ireland’s proposed revisions to the canals by-laws, in light of the profound and highly disruptive changes which these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard from €750 to €1,000 for couples and from €350 to €500 for single carers, with subsequent increases in the following years. [42872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if there are plans to provide an additional payment to those diagnosed with coeliac disease who have to follow a strict gluten free diet as prescribed by their doctor, and the substantial extra costs that entails when in receipt of a social welfare payment; if she will provide advice as to what those on...

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is a new definition.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We do not get an answer to the whataboutery. You have not answered-----