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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals to swiftly situate Ireland as a carbon dioxide-free energy user; the steps he will take to ensure Ireland no longer relies on imports of fossil fuels, on the future extraction of energy sources or on hydraulic fracturing in Ireland that would contribute to carbon dioxide levels rising, given that carbon...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pay (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 558. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the actions of management at an organisation (details supplied). [16977/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 559. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene in the ongoing strike at an organisation (details supplied) to make clear that this Government is opposed to employers forcibly making staff redundant in the selective manner that management has tried to do here and that Government funding will not be dispensed to employers who treat their workers in this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 560. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she aware of the actions of an organisation (details supplied). [17167/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 570. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he shares the sentiments of his counterpart in Finland, the Finnish Defence Minister, Jussi Niinistö, who recently stated that he supports reform of Finnish law to provide a legal mandate to expand the Finnish Defence Forces ability to participate in European wide international crisis management; if those who...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 571. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he shares the views of his predecessor, who stated he wanted Ireland to become a testing zone for advanced military and weapons guidance systems (details supplied); and if he will assure Dáil Éireann that he does not wish Ireland to become a haven for firms trading or researching such weapons of mass...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland has met its moral obligations to act in the refugee crisis in the Middle East and elsewhere, given that the figures for the number of refugees that Ireland has accepted are below the targets that the Government has set and that her Department has stated that it has not as yet decided on a mechanism to increase the numbers of refugees...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that the consequences of the policy of the patron of a school (details supplied) in refusing to enrol new children is having a detrimental effect on class sizes in adjacent schools; his plans to open a community national school in an area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18290/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice his Department sought or received on the constitutional issues in relation to amending the Equal Status Act, to cease discrimination on school admission. [18289/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits to the public service in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the recent confirmation from scientists in the southern hemisphere that global levels of carbon dioxide have passed 400 parts per million; if he is concerned that such levels pose a threat to the earth's biodiversity and to human civilisation, given that the last time levels reached this stage humans...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that the new structures introduced into the various Ministries and their respective responsibilities mean a downgrading of climate change as an issue, and to outline which Minister is responsible for answering questions relating to climate change. [17120/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (28 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of legislation which changed family income supplement, FIS, to be means tested for rent allowance by local authorities and social housing bodies (details supplied). [18166/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will carry out an impact assessment on the cuts to the one-parent family payment to analyse the impact of these cuts on child poverty and to ascertain if this has directly added to the high poverty levels of children living in one-parent households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15214/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether it is appropriate for his Department to insist persons who are unemployed are sent on training courses to an organisation (details supplied) that professes itself to operate with a Christian ethos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18772/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he funds in any way an organisation (details supplied); and if so, if he is monitoring the success it has in helping persons currently unemployed achieve employment. [18771/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned at the treatment of Palestinian academics in the West Bank and Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force; and his plans to raise this issue with the Israeli ambassador. [19411/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 556. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for home help hours applied for in Dublin city by area; the number of those applications which qualified for home help hours; and the number provided to those who qualify for home help. [19536/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 691. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 8,000 community child care subvention scheme places from budget 2016 which have become available; the level of the take up from child care service providers; and the number of places which have become available since the scheme was launched by area in Dublin and nationwide. [19546/16]