Results 121-140 of 3,436 for speaker:Bríd Smith in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to extend the fuel allowance to jobs initiative scheme participants in Budget 2024, given their very low income and struggles with spiralling cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43468/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review an application for funding under the Cross Border Directive and-or HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied) with a view to granting the costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his Department and the HSE are aware of proposals to change the tax treatment of GMS income for GP partnerships (details supplied); if he or his Department was consulted on these proposed changes; if the HSE has examined the potential impact of these changes to the provision of GP care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43974/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houseboats currently moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation; if, in the event the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, he will outline the projected number of houseboats that will be permitted to moor on these canals; the projected number of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current mooring fees levied on houseboats moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation under the existing canals by-laws; if he will outline, in the event that the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, the mooring or houseboat permit fees that will be levied...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider commissioning a new consultation process in line with the Government’s Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making regarding Waterway Ireland’s proposed revisions to the canals by-laws, in light of the profound and highly disruptive changes which these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard from €750 to €1,000 for couples and from €350 to €500 for single carers, with subsequent increases in the following years. [42872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if there are plans to provide an additional payment to those diagnosed with coeliac disease who have to follow a strict gluten free diet as prescribed by their doctor, and the substantial extra costs that entails when in receipt of a social welfare payment; if she will provide advice as to what those on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding in budget 2024 to extend the national treatment purchase fund to include timely assessment for both child and adult psychological services, as committed to in the programme for Government, and extend it to include occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy until backlogs are cleared; if he will fully fund...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of how the €500,000 funding that was made available in 2009 for a memorial to honour all survivors of all State-run industrial schools is to be used; if she will outline details of the proposed memorial; to provide a timescale for when it will be in place; if she will acknowledge that survivors are eager to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare, and in doing so, agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if recent moves by a childcare provider (details supplied) are a breach of any undertaking given not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to increase childcare fees for 2023/2024 by designating the previous year's (2022/2023) fees as an introductory fee...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (28 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials in his Department have held any meetings with a company (details supplied) or any other individuals or companies representing another company in relation to the prospect off Corrib, also referred to as the Inishkea gas prospect since January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify what changes are proposed for the bus services in Crumlin, specifically routes 83, 17 and 18, and when they will be implemented; if he can detail the proposed replacement routes that the NTA is currently planning to introduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any current schemes or plans to introduce schemes to help people who, due to serious medical illness and history of same, have failed to obtain mortgages from banks and other lending institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the costs to the Exchequer each year, in tabular form for the diesel rebate scheme since its inception in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 404. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1391 of 27 July 2021, if she will provide an update on the parental alienation research mentioned; if she will clarify how far advanced the research is; when the results will be published, given the urgency and number of families affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (26 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to the automatic provision of medical cards to people with a spinal cord injury based on certified medical needs, rather than means; if he will extend the review cycle for medical card holders with a spinal cord injury to ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41385/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Bord Bia should be funding climate disinformation about the supposed 'sustainability' of Irish milk, given the state of the climate and biodiversity crises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he will support a ban on coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34760/23]