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Tue, 14 May 2019
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Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
Bríd Smith
310. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 18 April 2019, when a reply will issue from the HSE. [20514/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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Special Educational Needs
Bríd Smith
398. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in the provision of supports, including SNAs for children with autism, in primary and secondary schools; his plans to enhance the supports available; his plans to ensure children have access to such supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20117/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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School Patronage
Bríd Smith
399. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure children and students in the Dublin 8 and 12 areas have access to a secondary Educate Together facility; the rationale for excluding students from these areas from the facility at Harold’s Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20118/19]
Wed, 8 May 2019
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Gaelscoil Issues
Bríd Smith
400. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with parents and students who are campaigning for Gaelscoileanna in Dublin 10 and 12 in view of the fact that these are the only areas in Dublin without such a facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20119/19]
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]