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

Bríd Smith: -----particularly when we have a high level of employment.

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

Bríd Smith: I am careful but clients have come to me that the system is not careful with them. I refer, for example, to a Syrian man with very poor English, who has attained residency here, has been told to attend a course on medical devices and has to travel from the far side of Blanchardstown to Sandyford every day, three hours each way. He is struggling with the course because his English is poor....

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

Bríd Smith: It is an unreasonable request in anybody's book given his poor language skills. Is the Department at all concerned that the companies involved, particularly Seetec, which runs the JobPath scheme, may head down the road shown in the film "I, Daniel Blake"? In Britain, 1 million people on disability allowance have been brought into the scheme's remit and the Department of Health and Social...

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

Bríd Smith: Is Mr. McKeon saying the Department will not change?

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

Bríd Smith: It is a possible policy position for the future. Given that it happened in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, would the Commission not tell us to be good boys and take people with disabilities into this?

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

Bríd Smith: I will quote back to Mr. McKeon that he said it was a bad policy decision if that decision is ever taken. Is the Department concerned at all at the type of jobs people are going into from the operations of Seetec and Turas Nua? Earlier, Mr. McKeon spoke a lot about catering, the hotel industry and the hospitality industry. Report after report shows that workers in these sectors are the...

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

Bríd Smith: I have one more comment. The witnesses keep mentioning the Safe Pass as an example of what they do to train people. Will they go beyond the Safe Pass and list a few more examples of decent training which people get?

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

Bríd Smith: The pay levels do not concern the providers.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: My question is on the commitments given in the programme for Government on collective responsibility. There have been many quotes from Emma Mhic Mhathúna here this morning but one thing she said was that this Government is totally incapable of minding us and that it has to go. I would like the Minister's response to that. I would also like to know what happened to the promise given to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ----where the labs have made a bags of them.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: We were promised the results.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It was Emma Mhic Mhathúna who called on the Government to go, not Bríd Smith, and she did say that it was incapable of minding her and the rest of the female population.

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Vótáil.

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Today?

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the Sinn Féin motion and support its calls for transparency and openness. It is telling that when such calls were explicitly removed from previous Bills by the Government, there was obviously something to hide. Welcome as all of that is, I do not believe it gets to the nub of our problem. I will continue to emphasise that there is an ideological decision at the core of this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he plans to take in response to the ongoing killings by the Israeli defence forces of unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21104/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he will take in relation to the unilateral withdrawal by the United States of America from the Iran nuclear deal; and if an invitation to President Trump to visit here will be withdrawn as a result. [21105/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts Data (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the value of contracts for goods or services from companies (details supplied) since 2010. [20860/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts Data (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of contracts for goods or services from companies (details supplied) since 2010. [20850/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Contracts Data (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the value of contracts for goods or services from companies (details supplied) since 2010. [20854/18]