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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (28 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 73. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [24030/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Employment Rights (28 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers directly employed by CIÉ tours; the number of drivers contracted by CIÉ tours to operate their services; the steps the company can take to ensure all drivers either directly employed or contracted abide by current regulations related to maximum working time driving and breaks and so on; if the NTA has...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (28 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline, given his powers to freeze, seize or otherwise impose restrictive measures on assets for the purpose of combating terrorism under the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, and that the construction of settlements in the West Bank meets the definition of terrorist activity under that Act, as it is carried out with the intention...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 401. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if plans to accommodate people seeking international protection at a location (details supplied) include the provision of transport services in order that they are not isolated and can access other amenities or appointments elsewhere; to list all other proposed services that will be provided to the residents;...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (23 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to delay the introduction of a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to issue grants to small and medium enterprises in the retail and hospitality sectors through the increased cost of business scheme based on their profitability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to delay the expansion of the sick pay scheme to workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the findings of the 2024 UNFPA State of World Population Report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22665/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (21 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the Inspire programme as an education support programme for vulnerable students (details supplied); if there are plans to extend this programme; the annual remuneration for an Inspire programme line manager; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22865/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Security (16 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 27. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are any immediate military threats to Irish security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received recent official requests from the European Commission to strengthen the Irish Defence Forces; if so, the reasons for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21890/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people refused permission to enter Ireland via inbound flight in the past 12 months who subsequently applied for international protection, by nationality of applicants and month; the number refused permission to enter Ireland who were actually turned back with the airline that brought them in, in tabular form;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applications received in the past 12 months, by nationality of applicants and month, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22117/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many people were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection and permission to remain the country in the past twelve months, by month, type of status granted and nationality, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 and 92 of 30 April 2024, if he is aware that the proposed draft childminding regulations represent a further bureaucratisation of a system that is already onerous for parents and service providers; if he is aware that childminders are reporting that these regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been forcibly displaced four times in Gaza after the building in which they lived was completely destroyed and whose parents and siblings in Ireland are desperate for the person to join them; if she and her Government colleagues will implement special measures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (8 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in belated recognition of the second interim report (section 5.14) and the final report (recommendations, page 5) as emphatic recommendations of the MBHCI, that former residents of the Westbank Orphanage in Greystones, County Wicklow, be included in the residential institutions redress scheme as an urgent matter of justice, fairness and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a potential gap in the criteria in relation to the vacant/derelict property grant (details supplied); if he will investigate a case involving the protection and incorporation of a deteriorating 160 year old protected structure into a new dwelling with a view to the overturning a refusal of a vacant property...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 278. To ask the Minister for Health where on the campus of Cherry Orchard hospital the new coronary care unit will be located; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 279. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assure the families of residents on both willow and sycamore units in Cherry Orchard hospital, that neither unit will be used to facilitate a new service, other than its prior use as a nursing home care facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19978/24]