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Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Departmental Funding
Bríd Smith
226. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funds are available for local authorities from his Department to refurbish social housing units, specifically to install double glazed windows in housing units such as Emmet Building, Dublin 8, in response to ongoing concerns over mould and damp and also as measures to reduce energy consumption and emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7280/23]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Local Authorities
Bríd Smith
276. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure funding is made available to Dublin City Council in order to renovate the Iveagh building in the Liberties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7281/23]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Wind Energy Generation
Bríd Smith
283. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is binging any proposals to permit the automatic granting of permission for wind energy projects that have been waiting for over two years for planning approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7359/23]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Abortion Services
Bríd Smith
831. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the report on the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7279/23]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Bríd Smith
837. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of health workers entitled to the €1,000 pandemic bonus who remain unpaid; the position of staff in private nursing homes; the number of these who have received the bonus to date; the number of those who have not received the payment; if home help and care providers who continued to look after persons in their homes during the pandemic are eligible for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7293/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bríd Smith
13. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare officers to deal with applicants for additional needs' payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6073/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Bríd Smith
46. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for additional needs payments to date in 2023; if she can clarify the number of these that have been rejected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6074/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Housing Provision
Bríd Smith
67. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure that adequate accommodation is available for refugees arriving in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6070/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Anti-Racism Measures
Bríd Smith
72. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the long overdue national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6071/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Direct Provision System
Bríd Smith
81. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6072/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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International Protection
Bríd Smith
100. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify his Department's recent communication on accommodation and support for refugees; the reason that it discriminates between different refugees and specifically offers less support to international protection refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6068/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Medicinal Products
Bríd Smith
301. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will clearly outline the process through which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Medicinal Products
Bríd Smith
302. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason exactly a GP cannot prescribe cariban on the drugs payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the majority of women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks of pregnancy and it is the case that a GP would be qualified to prescribe the drug and be automatically covered on the DPS; if he will clarify the reason that a GP would not be qualified to do so if this is not permissible; if he will clarify the standard practice of the prescription of the drug that exists in other EU member states; if he will further outline his Department’s recommendations to help with extreme nausea and vomiting for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy or until the drug can be accessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6375/23]
Thu, 9 Feb 2023
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Medicinal Products
Bríd Smith
303. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6376/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Gender Equality
Bríd Smith
1. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the gender pay gap report from his Department. [4421/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Programme for Government
Bríd Smith
7. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [3412/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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School Enrolments
Bríd Smith
189. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education if the State, which funds private schools, has any input or control over their enrolment policy; if the practices reported at a school (details supplied) constitute a breach of State guidelines or are in keeping with present rules and criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5604/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Legislative Reviews
Bríd Smith
316. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 30 November 2021, if he will clarify when the review will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5735/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Greyhound Industry
Bríd Smith
474. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if allowing a named individual to enter a dog in a greyhound race in Shelbourne Park on 20 January 2023 while the individual is the subject of an exclusion order imposed by Rásaíocht Con Éireann for multiple serious doping offences undermines the integrity of the greyhound industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5696/23]
Wed, 8 Feb 2023
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Greyhound Industry
Bríd Smith
475. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing stud greyhounds registered with the Irish Coursing Club in each of the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5697/23]