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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 10 December 2019, the details of the English study referred to; the location in the study in which the figure of 20% discordance in relation to false negatives compared to high grade abnormalities in view of the fact the study suggests a discordance of 14.9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53223/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the need for a women’s refuge in County Carlow will be examined in order to provide safe accommodation for women in emergency situations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53181/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an apartment built in 1997, which complied with fire safety regulations at the time, is now obliged to upgrade its fire alarm systems in order to comply with 2013 regulations. [52916/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if income limits for access to the social housing waiting lists will be examined in view of recent reports that show the difficulty of persons accessing affordable housing and the inability of many to qualify for mortgages but who are above income limits for local authority housing waiting lists; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the first-time buyers help to buy incentive scheme to cover second-hand houses and apartments and not just new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51925/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding and expenditure not spent by each Department and returned to the Exchequer in 2019. [51923/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the new legislation necessary further to the recent Court of Appeal decision regarding residency criteria for citizenship applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51148/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the funding from his Department to the Canal Communities Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force by year since 2015; the planned funding for 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51380/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 394. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories in which the 159 slides reviewed by a college (details supplied) came from and which were classified as discordant cases in which the expert panel considered there was an adverse effect on the outcome of the woman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories from which the slides came from and which were found by the review by a college (details supplied) to contain discordant results; and the slides which were found to have low grade abnormal cells 14.3% and high grade abnormal cells 30%. [51506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the information sought since June 2018 regarding a breakdown by laboratory contracted under CervicalCheck of the false negatives identified by a review (details supplied) and the scale of discordance identified between the original CervicalCheck result and the review; and if same will be presented across the laboratories in this regard....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 439. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 5 December 2018, if, following a review (details supplied) he will direct the HSE to provide the information requested. [51729/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 440. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 5 February 2019, if the analysis referred to the person with appropriate expertise is a reference to the 221 laboratory audit report, a report (details supplied) or a separate analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51730/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 441. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 322 and 323 of 24 September 2019, if the fact that the HSE has established an expert group to review clinical audit of interval cancers is a reference to a review (details supplied) or a different expert group. [51731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the Scally report and a review (details supplied), he will recommence the CervicalCheck audit that has been paused since May 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51750/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the number of slides requested by a college (details supplied) to be included in its review and which had been given consent for inclusion by the women concerned but were not available to the review due to the fact the laboratory concerned could not locate them, by laboratory; if the slides have subsequently become available; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a review (details supplied) suggests that twice as many high-grade abnormalities are missed by laboratories contracted to conduct the CervicalCheck screening programme in comparison to the referenced screening programme in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51752/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 446. To ask the Minister for Health if the exact same standards of measuring of that which constitutes a discordant slide upon review as opposed to a concordant slide are employed by the ongoing slide review involving cases of cervical cancer in the UK referenced by a college (details supplied) and its own methodology used in a recent review. [51753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €20 million allocation for retrofitting homes in the midlands under the just transition plan is funding from the SEAI or from other sources; the amount that will be spent in 2020 and thereafter; the counties to which the allocation will be targeted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (5 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that banks and financial institutions which placed persons in mortgage distress on split mortgages some years ago as a response to the recession and crisis are now removing persons from the plans and pressurising them to make new arrangements with the banks; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that...