Results 141-160 of 3,455 for speaker:Bríd Smith in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (10 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of aircraft leasing companies that have benefitted from 0% VAT as a result of leasing to qualifying international airlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34045/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress she has made in changing the direct provision system for asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34738/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Industrial Relations (15 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the budget allocation for her Department will be sufficient to allow for the recent deal with the GRA and the AGSI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34739/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (16 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current discussions between the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI, and the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, will result in pay equality in the education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35155/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the reduction in staff numbers at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35156/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (16 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on a State sponsored voluntary DNA website for all those who have been in care in order to trace family and relatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35413/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (17 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he plans to take to deal with the escalating rise in rents in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35431/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the latest pillar of the Rebuilding Ireland action plan, that is housing supply; the way it will address the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35430/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will commission a report on the impact of the recent changes in social protection payments on lone parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36056/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the impact on recent retirees, who are qualified for the contributory State pension, of the way the homemaker scheme years are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36057/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (23 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on progress in securing the release of a person (details supplied) from their detention in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36269/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Historical Records (29 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the proposed sale of a letter from Pádraig Pearse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37213/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (29 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to recent evidence that suggests her previous statements that hare coursing was well regulated and avoided any harm to hares were mistaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37214/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any provision is made or can be made to persons in receipt of a British state old age pension which real value has declined dramatically since Brexit, and that had this pension taken into account during a means test for benefits here. [37646/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Post Office Network (29 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 472. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to safeguard the position and operation of the post office network and especially rural post offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 33. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the refusal to grant funding for the redevelopment of the palliative care unit in Our Lady's Hospice and Care Unit in Harold's Cross, Dublin 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37961/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the reason spending on prescribed drugs according to a recent survey here remains extremely high, second only to Germany in the EU, while lifesaving drugs, such as Orkambi for cystic fibrosis, are refused funding due to price gouging by pharmaceutical companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37960/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the treatment and hiring of temporary clerical officers by his Department will be re-examined in view of the fact that many temporary clerical officers with many years, and even decades, of experience and good work records are unable to have any certainty with regard to future work contracts from his Department; if their experience and past...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any studies completed by the HSE prior to the decision to discontinue reimbursement support for eye supplements from 2017. [38102/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons nationally that have applied via the discretionary hardship arrangement for continued support and reimbursements for eye supplements. [38103/16]