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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: So the Tánaiste acknowledges that there are going to be more war situations but he wants to be free to send troops to those wars.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not mention "conscription"-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I asked where the Tánaiste would want to send them. Where does the Government want to send them after they lift the triple lock?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Murphy is correct. It does not make any sense. It is totally illogical to say that we will operate within the UN Charter and, at the same time, we want to break free of the UN Security Council. They are part and parcel of the same package. The Tánaiste has gone back to when he was aged 12 and how he remembers the campaign and how we threatened that there was going to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I would describe it as a colonial power.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It has a colony called "Israel".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste does not answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste is wrong about that. He doesn't answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: No, we did not. The Tánaiste has not answered the question-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Where does the Tánaiste want to send troops?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I have caught the Tánaiste contradicting himself so many times. He will not answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Do not give me that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Gabh mo leithscéal, tá tinneas sa scornach agam agus tá mo ghuth lag. I will read from Fianna Fáil's manifesto in 2020 to the electorate in order to sit where they are sitting now. All of its members signed up to this. Ireland will, "Fully maintain neutrality and the Triple Lock ... Fianna Fáil reaffirms its commitment to the retention of the triple lock of UN...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a potential gap in the criteria in relation to the vacant/derelict property grant (details supplied); if he will investigate a case involving the protection and incorporation of a deteriorating 160 year old protected structure into a new dwelling with a view to the overturning a refusal of a vacant property...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 278. To ask the Minister for Health where on the campus of Cherry Orchard hospital the new coronary care unit will be located; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 279. To ask the Minister for Health if she will assure the families of residents on both willow and sycamore units in Cherry Orchard hospital, that neither unit will be used to facilitate a new service, other than its prior use as a nursing home care facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that is currently undertaking the ongoing risk assessments of the 16 remaining residents’ rooms in Cherry Orchard hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 281. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the qualifications of the ongoing risk assessors to carry out this task with regard to health and safety; if the assessor also has another role at Cherry Orchard hospital in addition to their role of risk assessor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19980/24]

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Solidarity to the Minister for the threats and the disturbance she and her family have suffered this week. I also express my solidarity to Deputy Paul Murphy, who also this week received death threats from the same sources. I have read over the motion from the Rural Independent Group. It consists of nearly three pages about the migration pact and there is not a single mention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm where the legislation for the establishment of defects scheme for apartments and duplexes is currently at and to confirm when the draft legislation will be published; when he believes that OMCs will be able to apply for and receive funding for permanent remediation of defects; if he will commit to passing the...