Bríd Smith

People Before Profit-Solidarity · Dublin South-Central

Activity on Children and Youth Affairs — 40 events (2 lobbying · 38 questions · 0 votes) full profile →

• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  National Women's Council of Ireland Children and Youth Affairs

  • Public Childcare
• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  National Forum of Family Resource Centres CLG Children and Youth Affairs

  • Briefing to Oireachtas members on the 24.09.24 in the AV room in Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. The briefing is part of the Family Resource Centre National Forum’s (FRCNF) calls for a renewed Government commitment to increase core funding for all 121 FRCs to €240,000, ahead of Budget 2025.
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the payments for services or goods by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 2015. [20770/20]
• 2020-07-29
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will continue with an investigation or commission a further inquiry into the Tuam babies scandal; if so, if he has considered the use of DNA technology in such an investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19388/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early years practitioners that participated in the Better Start CDP initiative in 2019; the number of practitioners that paid for their attendance; the rate of pay they received; and the amount spent on the initiative. [3088/20]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the need for a women’s refuge in County Carlow will be examined in order to provide safe accommodation for women in emergency situations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53181/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of parents on the community childcare subvention, CCS, scheme and the childcare education and training scheme, CETS, who will be affected negatively by the national childcare scheme. [32202/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure that the national childcare scheme will not result in new entrants who would qualify under the community childcare subvention, CCS, scheme and the childcare education and training scheme, CETS, paying more than existing users. [32203/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to stop childcare providers increasing their fees under the national childcare scheme; and if a cap will be put on prices. [32204/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of paying childcare workers across the sector directly by her Department on a pay scale in line with primary school teachers. [29794/19]
• 2019-04-16
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  Asked Children

  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]
• 2019-04-16
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  Asked Children

  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]
• 2019-04-16
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  Asked Children

  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]
• 2019-04-16
  PQ
  Asked Children

  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]
• 2019-03-26
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  Asked Children

  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]
• 2019-03-26
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  Asked Children

  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]
• 2018-07-24
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an audit of all external workplace investigations conducted by companies (details supplied) will be provided; the outcome regarding complaints against her Department; when the investigation will commence of an allegation against an employee, that is, the number of occasions on which a complaint was upheld against her Department by the investigators; and the number of occasions on which an investigation against an employee found grounds for disciplinary action. [33168/18]
• 2018-05-15
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the value of contracts for goods or services from companies (details supplied) since 2010. [20847/18]
• 2018-03-29
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the value of contracts for services awarded to a company (details supplied) by her Department since 2010, in tabular form; and the type of work undertaken by the company. [14623/18]
• 2017-10-03
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the cap for parental contribution will be maintained when TEC schemes are abolished and replaced with a new affordable childcare scheme. [41734/17]
• 2017-07-26
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount it would cost to restore the parental contribution cap for all participants availing of child care under the TEC schemes. [36410/17]
• 2017-07-04
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will take to ensure that parents and children have access to suitable places under the affordable childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31297/17]
• 2017-06-22
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff, disciplinary procedures and workplace related issues such as allegations of bullying and so on or dignity at work issues in each of the years 2015 and 2016. [29333/17]
• 2017-06-20
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 23 May 2017, if she will provide the figures for all pension contributions made by public sector workers in each body under the aegis of her Department, excluding those in the civil service, including the pension levy, in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [26967/17]
• 2017-05-23
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure children can continue to avail of vital services (details supplied) that are in fact helping to reduce child poverty within very disadvantaged areas of the country as evidenced through poverty deprivation scores. [24411/17]
• 2017-05-23
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  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she will protect the rights of children to ensure that they are not further marginalised through the enactment of new legislation (details supplied). [24412/17]
• 2017-05-17
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations, including hiring and interviewing staff and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23952/17]
• 2017-03-28
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding available to implement the action plan for school age children; and the way in which this will deliver affordable care for children out of school hours. [15134/17]
• 2017-03-28
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress of Ireland taking in unaccompanied minors from Calais and on the setting up of the national project office to care for these children. [15133/17]
• 2017-01-17
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  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider setting up a State-sponsored voluntary DNA website for all those persons who have been in care in order to trace family and relatives. [41430/16]
• 2016-12-14
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if those persons availing of CET childcare will not face any increased costs in the years ahead. [40176/16]
• 2016-12-14
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made in providing the 60,000 child care places that the Government committed to by April 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40177/16]
• 2016-11-16
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on a State sponsored voluntary DNA website for all those who have been in care in order to trace family and relatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35413/16]
• 2016-11-08
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provision that is being provided to assist parents who use childminders or relatives in view of the fact that the majority of children are minded by local childminders or relatives, and considering the Growing Up in Ireland ESRI report which confirmed that children minded by childminders and relatives have fewer emotional difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33541/16]
• 2016-11-08
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provision to be provided to new entrants to training and employment child care, TEC, schemes to still be able to afford child care in view of the fact that currently there is provision for a transition period for parents on TEC schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33542/16]
• 2016-11-08
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an agency (details supplied) has received over €36 million in State funding from her Department via Pobal but is refusing to obey and honour the findings of a Labour Court judgment in the case of forced redundancies of its workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33337/16]
• 2016-07-21
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 500 after-school child care scheme, ASCC, places taken up now that the eligibility for 52 weeks is ending; the measures put in place to provide child care for these children at the same affordable rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22963/16]
• 2016-07-21
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to expand the qualifying criteria for the community child care scheme to allow families who are not in receipt of Social Protection but are on low incomes to be included in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22964/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Children

  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]
• 2016-06-09
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  Asked Children

  Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her plan in the programme for Government to tender school facilities to community groups and private providers is to use public schools for private child care; if she will offer publicly provided and funded after-school care in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14719/16]