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Wed, 8 May 2019
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Animal Welfare
Bríd Smith
1169. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation under which persons can obtain a licence to run a dog kennel. [19186/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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Animal Welfare
Bríd Smith
1170. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks carried out on dog kennels to ensure a minimum standard of care for animals; and the checks carried out to ensure that animals are not being neglected or treated cruelly. [19187/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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Fish Farming
Bríd Smith
1189. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stocking, losses, escapes, diseases, mortalities and harvested fish by number of fish and weight at a farm (details supplied) in 2018 and to date in 2019. [19629/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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Taxi Regulations
Bríd Smith
1279. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advertising or public information available to make persons using taxis aware of an application (details supplied). [18729/19]
Thu, 18 Apr 2019
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Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
Bríd Smith
191. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason for the continued closure of a newly built ward in a nursing home (details supplied); the cost to build and refurbish the ward; the cost of the continued closure; the number of beds on the ward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18198/19]
Wed, 17 Apr 2019
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Gaelscoil Issues
Bríd Smith
117. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the financial resources and other supports that can be provided to new independent Gaelscoileanna in the Dublin 10 and 12 areas (details supplied). [17871/19]
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
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Childcare Education and Training Support Programme
Bríd Smith
506. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons receiving childcare subsidies through either training and education or childcare subvention; and the number of the recipients that are lone parents. [17605/19]
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
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Childcare Education and Training Support Programme
Bríd Smith
507. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been an impact analysis on the loss of training and education or childcare subvention for vulnerable groups; and if so, the outcome of same. [17606/19]
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
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Childcare Education and Training Support Programme
Bríd Smith
508. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 14 December 2016, if she has addressed the matter with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection; and if so, the position in this regard (details supplied). [17607/19]
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
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Childcare Education and Training Support Programme
Bríd Smith
509. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if in a two-parent family only one parent must engage with the jobseeker activation measures by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (details supplied) and the second parent is allowed to fulfil the caring role; and her plans to introduce a childcare scheme that will specifically address this dual role. [17608/19]
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
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Insurance Coverage
Bríd Smith
50. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation to protect consumers in dealing with insurance companies specifically in cases in which the companies are refusing businesses insurance cover without adequate explanation or refusing to explain the reason for refusals especially in situations in which the business has been a customer for many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16990/19]
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
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Workplace Relations Services
Bríd Smith
97. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of actions taken by the WRC enforcement section on foot of the refusal by an employer to fulfil an award made to an employee after a WRC hearing or an adjudication in each of the years 2016 to 2018. [16993/19]
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
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Workplace Relations Services
Bríd Smith
98. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the WRC has decided not to take action to enforce its own findings in a case in which an employer claims they did not receive documentation regarding a hearing; if such defences by employers are routinely accepted by the WRC as a defence when an employer has lost a hearing adjudication decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16994/19]
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
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Industrial Relations
Bríd Smith
99. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to grant access to An Garda Síochána and other representative groups in the Defence Forces or those that represent retired employees access to the industrial relations machinery of the State under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16989/19]
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
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Cancer Services Provision
Bríd Smith
138. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the provision of breast clinic services in St. James's Hospital is being cut back; the steps he will take in relation to same; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that carriers of genetic braca 1 and 2 are having repeat visits and check-ups extended from once every six months to once every 12 months, that family history clinics are being closed and those attending are referred back to their general practitioners; his views on these cuts to the services; and the reason the services are being cut. [17094/19]
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
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Public Sector Staff Retirements
Bríd Smith
66. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the measures and age extension in the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018 will apply to semi-State workers going forward, specifically to employees at RTÉ; if there are proposals to extend the measure to other workers in other sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16966/19]
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
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School Patronage
Bríd Smith
68. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of access to a new school (details supplied); and if he will meet a representative group of parents from the Dublin 8 and 12 areas. [16794/19]
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
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Health Services Reports
Bríd Smith
130. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to give evidence to the vaginal mesh review team in the interest of transparency and fairness in view of the fact that another person gave evidence. [16866/19]
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
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Traveller Community
Bríd Smith
196. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a Traveller specific employment strategy to support the training and employment objectives in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 in view of the 80% unemployment in the community. [16795/19]
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
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Traveller Data
Bríd Smith
197. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of Traveller participation in activation programmes; and the specific targeted measures used to increase Traveller involvement. [16796/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
Bríd Smith
4. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the backlog and delays in issuing social welfare payments; and the further reason for the delay of six months in relation to appeals. [15690/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Employment Rights
Bríd Smith
6. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to deal with bogus self-employment practices; and when legislation will come before Dáil Éireann on the matter. [15656/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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JobPath Programme
Bríd Smith
19. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contracts with JobPath providers will expire; when a decision on the future of the scheme will be made; if the recent Dáil Éireann motion on the issue will be taken into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15655/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Telephone Support Allowance
Bríd Smith
32. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of full restoration of the telephone allowance including to those who may qualify but do not live alone; and her plans to address the issue in the next period. [15657/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Illness Benefit Appeals
Bríd Smith
40. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commission a review to ascertain the number of workers per year affected by the six-day waiting period while sick from work; and the estimated cost of restoring the waiting period to three days. [15658/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Pension Provisions
Bríd Smith
69. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the possibility of widening the applicability of the home care credit in the calculation of pension entitlements for retired workers, specifically workers in semi-State organisations and bodies such as the Central Bank, who may have no entitlement to State contributory pensions and whose workplace pensions are disadvantaged by the refusal of the semi-State employers to give credit to workers for years out of the workforce raising families; if the legislation can be amended to cover such workers and ensure all women who raise families are given home care credits in calculating their final pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15848/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Pension Provisions
Bríd Smith
72. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if legislation governing the pension entitlements of workers (details supplied) can be amended to allow women who raised families and took leave from their workplaces for those periods to avail of home care credits similar to those recently amended under the contributory pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15854/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Literacy Programmes
Bríd Smith
75. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for future funding of a society (details supplied); the amount of funding that will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and the Irish sign language academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15855/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Literacy Programmes
Bríd Smith
82. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the future funding of a society (details supplied); the way in which the funding will help develop and support Irish sign language and specifically the programmes run by the society such as deaf adult literacy services and an academy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15766/19]
Thu, 4 Apr 2019
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Back to Education Allowance Appeals
Bríd Smith
320. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a response will issue in the case of a back to education allowance for a person (details supplied). [15691/19]
Wed, 3 Apr 2019
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Approved Housing Bodies
Bríd Smith
225. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to tenancy contracts by approved housing bodies such as a body (details supplied) which informs tenants that their tenancy can be ended if the body plans to sell the premises within three months, refurbish the premises, change the use of the premises or if it is deemed no longer suitable for the tenant; if this tenancy agreement is approved by his Department for persons housed by such bodies from the social housing waiting list; his views on AHBs potentially using such grounds for eviction in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15849/19]
Tue, 2 Apr 2019
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Public Transport Fares
Bríd Smith
17. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lower fares to encourage uptake of public transport in relation to BusConnects plans; if he has reviewed the increase in fares across public transport since 2011; his views on whether the present fare structures may be discouraging uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15153/19]
Tue, 2 Apr 2019
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Railway Stations
Bríd Smith
55. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties caused to persons with disabilities by the failure of lifts at DART and rail stations across the city and that these failures are ongoing and constant and make accessing public transport impossible for many persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15152/19]
Tue, 2 Apr 2019
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Direct Provision System
Bríd Smith
210. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the practice of direct provision centres encouraging residents to volunteer to undertake duties which could be paid employment jobs; if such practices are widespread; if his Department is consulted by providers before such volunteering is organised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14940/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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Exploration Licences Applications
Bríd Smith
57. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if plans by a company (details supplied) to commence exploratory drilling off the south coast in June 2019 for oil or gas will aid plans to make Ireland a world leader on climate change and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14168/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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Exploration Licences Approvals
Bríd Smith
58. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the issuing of further licences for exploration will be halted in view of the worsening climate crisis evidenced by the catastrophic monsoon in south-western Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14194/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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National Broadband Plan Data
Bríd Smith
68. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when details of the decision by the broadband procurement team on the remaining bidder tender will be announced; the costs to date of the broadband procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14169/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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Exploration Licences
Bríd Smith
71. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials have held discussions with representatives of a company (details supplied) prior to its plans to drill off the south coast in June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14195/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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National Broadband Plan Data
Bríd Smith
73. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the roll-out of rural broadband nationally in the event the procurement team does not give the tender for rural broadband to the one remaining bidder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14196/19]
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
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Data Protection
Bríd Smith
226. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if concerns regarding data protection will be reviewed in terms of proposals to transfer data from waste collection companies. [12010/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Wards of Court
Bríd Smith
527. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for delays within the Office of Wards of Court which are impacting on the purchases of properties. [13422/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Bríd Smith
892. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the details of the planned primary health care centre in Drimnagh, Dublin 12; the proposed opening date of the facility; the reason for the delay on this project; if the current cost overrun at the national children’s hospital has an impact on the provision and opening of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13879/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Preschool Services
Bríd Smith
1202. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is possible for parents to sign a legal disclaimer to protect their child's place in a crèche that is being instructed by Tusla to reduce its numbers due to small floor size. [13416/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Children in Care
Bríd Smith
1211. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children in the care of Tusla are accommodated in emergency situations at locations provided for adult homeless services; if so, the safeguards taken at these locations; if the policy is approved by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13877/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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State Pension (Contributory)
Bríd Smith
1269. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the processing of reassessment of pensions; the reason some persons receive increases a few days after they apply online and others wait weeks; the way in which they are assessed; and the length of time it should take. [13421/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Social and Affordable Housing
Bríd Smith
1364. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) informed Dublin City Council 28 days prior to 7 March 2018 that the site on which the organisation is building 72 homes would not be completed on time. [12870/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Social and Affordable Housing
Bríd Smith
1365. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government in the event that an organisation (details supplied) received an extension of one year to complete works on a site, whether it informed Dublin City Council that the work would not be completed. [12871/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Social and Affordable Housing
Bríd Smith
1366. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a site (details supplied) is legally owned by an organisation. [12872/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Social and Affordable Housing
Bríd Smith
1367. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the reason Dublin City Council has not complied with the conditions of the Land Registry deeds will be investigated. [12873/19]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
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Social and Affordable Housing
Bríd Smith
1368. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the land allocated for a linear park at a location (details supplied) will be returned. [12874/19]