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Wed, 6 Jul 2016
oral
Public Sector Pay
Bríd Smith
52. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reverse the reductions in the starting salaries of newly qualified teachers, nurses and other public sector workers. [19716/16]
Wed, 6 Jul 2016
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Property Tax Exemptions
Bríd Smith
127. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the thresholds above which social protection clients will be liable for local property tax deductions; and the number of such clients who are liable for deductions in the Dublin South Central constituency. [19909/16]
Wed, 6 Jul 2016
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National Monuments
Bríd Smith
199. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the State paid a sum of €5 million to purchase Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, including details of the valuation process of the properties and of the recipients of the said moneys. [20058/16]
Wed, 6 Jul 2016
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National Monuments
Bríd Smith
201. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the provisions she has made to protect Sceilig Mhichíl, Contae Chiarraí, from damage during the filming there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15604/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
oral
Human Rights
Bríd Smith
30. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to bring home a person (details supplied) from his detention in Egypt. [19410/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Middle East Issues
Bríd Smith
48. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned at the treatment of Palestinian academics in the West Bank and Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force; and his plans to raise this issue with the Israeli ambassador. [19411/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Home Help Service
Bríd Smith
556. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of applications for home help hours applied for in Dublin city by area; the number of those applications which qualified for home help hours; and the number provided to those who qualify for home help. [19536/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Community Childcare Subvention Programme
Bríd Smith
691. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 8,000 community child care subvention scheme places from budget 2016 which have become available; the level of the uptake from child care service providers; and the number of places which have become available since the scheme was launched, by area, in Dublin and nationwide. [19546/16]
Thu, 30 Jun 2016
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Employment Support Services
Bríd Smith
18. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether it is appropriate for his Department to insist persons who are unemployed are sent on training courses to an organisation (details supplied) that professes itself to operate with a Christian ethos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18772/16]
Thu, 30 Jun 2016
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Employment Support Services
Bríd Smith
20. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if he funds in any way an organisation (details supplied); and if so, if he is monitoring the success it has in helping persons currently unemployed achieve employment. [18771/16]
Wed, 29 Jun 2016
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Social Welfare Benefits
Bríd Smith
137. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will carry out an impact assessment on the cuts to the one-parent family payment to analyse the impact of these cuts on child poverty and to ascertain if this has directly added to the high poverty levels of children living in one-parent households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15214/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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School Enrolments
Bríd Smith
17. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that the consequences of the policy of the patron of a school (details supplied) in refusing to enrol new children is having a detrimental effect on class sizes in adjacent schools; his plans to open a community national school in an area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18290/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Equality Legislation
Bríd Smith
34. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the advice his Department sought or received on the constitutional issues in relation to amending the Equal Status Act, to cease discrimination on school admission. [18289/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Departmental Staff Remuneration
Bríd Smith
135. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits to the public service in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Climate Change Policy
Bríd Smith
238. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the recent confirmation from scientists in the southern hemisphere that global levels of carbon dioxide have passed 400 parts per million; if he is concerned that such levels pose a threat to the earth's biodiversity and to human civilisation, given that the last time levels reached this stage humans did not exist; the radical steps he proposes to cut emissions of carbon dioxide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16175/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Climate Change Policy
Bríd Smith
239. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that the new structures introduced into the various Ministries and their respective responsibilities mean a downgrading of climate change as an issue, and to outline which Minister is responsible for answering questions relating to climate change. [17120/16]
Tue, 28 Jun 2016
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Family Income Supplement Data
Bríd Smith
270. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of legislation which changed family income supplement, FIS, to be means tested for rent allowance by local authorities and social housing bodies (details supplied). [18166/16]
Wed, 22 Jun 2016
oral
Direct Provision System
Bríd Smith
13. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forth proposals to end the inhuman conditions attached to the direct provision model operating under her control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17151/16]
Wed, 22 Jun 2016
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Refugee Resettlement Programme
Bríd Smith
58. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland has met its moral obligations to act in the refugee crisis in the Middle East and elsewhere, given that the figures for the number of refugees that Ireland has accepted are below the targets that the Government has set and that her Department has stated that it has not as yet decided on a mechanism to increase the numbers of refugees admitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17150/16]
Tue, 21 Jun 2016
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Public Sector Pay
Bríd Smith
89. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]