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Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Just do that.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: We know many things in advance of an inquiry starting. We know that Clinical Pathology Laboratories, CPL, tried to gag Vicky Phelan but she would not acquiesce. CPL is the sister company of MedLab in Sandyford and we are still using it to screen women's cervical tests. Even if we accept the bona fides of the Minster for Health, Deputy Harris, in regard to not knowing about this issue,...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is not part of the Department.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Department yesterday stated it had the information in March.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am not making it up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [18887/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposals that will protect workers in defined benefit schemes from attempts by their employers to abandon such schemes will be brought forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19324/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker that refuses to sign a PPP with a JobPath provider such as Seetec and so on will not automatically face sanctions from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his definition of affordable housing; the number of units he plans to provide in this category in the next period; the way in which these units will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19837/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units built directly by local authorities in 2017; the way in which this figure is in line with the stated goal of solving the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn during court proceedings to the HSE legal strategy regarding a case (details supplied) against clinical pathology laboratories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19738/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 281. To ask the Minister for Health if he or officials from his Department had meetings or briefings with officials of the HSE regarding the tests conducted by clinical pathology laboratories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19739/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 282. To ask the Minister for Health when his attention was drawn to the scale of the failures regarding the tests conducted by clinical pathology laboratories; and when his attention was drawn to the HSE legal strategy in a case (details supplied). [19740/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I would like to get answers from all three organisations to the questions I want to ask. The first question is to the Department and, indeed, Seetec and Turas Nua. Would the witnesses agree that the introduction of JobPath and this way of dealing with unemployment, including the allocation of this work to those companies, came about as a result of pressure from the troika when we were in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thought we were asking all our questions in ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can Mr. McKeon explain to me why in 2011 there were 359 sanctions against welfare recipients as against 16,451 in 2017? If it is all about reducing unemployment, why is there a massive increase in sanctions when we have more people at work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can Mr. McKeon explain the sanction system then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The year 2011 is six years ago. There has been a massive increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is fair enough. It was introduced in 2011 at the height of chronic unemployment in the country and there was 359 sanctions but last year when we are nearly out of the unemployment crisis, it was 16,451.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Mr. McKeon said that in his introduction but I contend that that increase in sanctions shows that this is about sanctioning the unemployed rather than helping-----