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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (29 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the funding granted to local authorities from his Department for the retrofitting of local authority housing in each of the years since 2016; and the number of units affected, in tabular form. [31736/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration (29 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding given by his Department to Dublin City Council for stage 1 capital appraisal approval for the regeneration of Oliver Bond House; the total amount of funding made available to DCC for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31737/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration (29 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding from his Department for the regeneration of Oliver Bond House can be used to take intermediate measures to deal with damp and mould issues, including the replacement of single glazing in units there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (29 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the 2018 review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 made several recommendations around the development of non-binary legal recognition; if she is further aware that in her report on the review, dated 26 November 2019, then-Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (details supplied) stated...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am thankful for the opportunity to say a few words about this report. It is the latest in a trend of reports that highlight serious problems with the country’s water bodies. We know from this report that Ireland will fail to meet the most basic EU targets on restoring water bodies by 2027. We can add to that the list of failures on environmental and climate targets. The overall...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach recently received a detailed report from Unite the Union on the case of four of its members working for Murphy International Limited at the Rusal Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick in an action the union described as tantamount to union busting. The plant is owned by UC RUSAL, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Russian oligarch and Putin supporter Oleg Deripaska....

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: The definition of "cull" is "a selective slaughter of animals". I am not sure what a "voluntary" cull is, but the motion speaks of 200,000 dairy cows being culled. That would indeed be a shocking sight and policy, if it were true. The problem is it is not true. From what I can see, no amount of anger, conspiracy theories or mixing up the idea of a slaughter with the idea of a reduction...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----that have led to that anger and fear. This motion tells us that the answer is to keep on doing what we are doing, to keep on with the policies that enrich the Goodmans, the Dawn Meats and the large agribusinesses, threaten the future of family farms and sustainable agriculture and add to the climate chaos that we face. As large parts of humanity experience record heatwaves, record...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Discrimination (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases taken under disability grounds for discrimination under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 to the Workplace Relations Commission in each of the years since 2015, in tabular form; the number of these cases that were adjudicated in favour of the complainant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31462/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Discrimination (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if complainants taking cases under the grounds of discrimination in the workplace have access to any additional resources or supports in these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31464/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Workplace Discrimination (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to hold any review of the workings of the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 or the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015, specifically in relation to the rights of people with disabilities to take cases relating to workplace discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order to restrict certain developments in fossil fuels infrastructure and high energy usage data centres, to remove some developments from listing as strategic development infrastructure projects, to revise the procedure for making applications directly to An Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to change the system in relation to the witnessing of signatures on passport applications by a member of An Garda Síochána at local Garda stations; if he is aware that the process includes the recording of witnessing gardaí’s details in a log, which is then called upon by the Passport Office for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of the new school build for a school (details supplied) works for which you indicated in a previous Parliamentary Question reply to commence at the end of June 2023; the date for the commencement of this new build and the completion timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30946/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person participating in the JobPath programme who declines to sign a consent form allowing Seetec to make contact with employers of perspective employers on their behalf, will be sanctioned or penalised in any way; how programme participants' personal data is stored, processed and shared; how this complies with Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a prisoner is due for a release under the community return scheme as a result of a Ministerial order; if such an order can be delayed or stopped by the intervention of a third party as appears to have happened in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds named on the RCETS to date who were born in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31370/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds born in 2021 who were exported un-named to the UK or elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31371/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 522. 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; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31372/23]