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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the mortgage calculator for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme is yielding widely inaccurate figures for prospective applicants (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that local authorities are subsequently reducing the loan amount that...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Contracts Data (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 605. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value of contracts for goods or services from companies (details supplied) since 2010. [20849/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The biggest hoarder of land in this country is the State. It is hoarding thousands of acres. In St. Michael's Estate in Inchicore this is very obvious as soon as one walks into the square. Where the flats used to be there is a big unsafe space of approximately 12 acres. It is about time we used it because in Dublin South Central there are over 7,000 people on the housing list and in...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is sensitive.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State said the elected members of Dublin City Council had determined that the homes in St. Michael's estate would be provided on a 30% social, 20 affordable and 50% private tenure mix basis. The residents of St. Michael's estate and the community association in the area are actively campaigning against this proposal in favour of a cost rental model. The Minister of State...

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I call for public housing.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Housing that could be rented out to people who are working.

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State answer my question on the first major cost rental model-----

Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is no site picked yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. My first question is for Ms Cliona Sharkey of Trócaire on the issue of inequality. I agree completely with the Acting Chairman that we do not just need to deal with climate change but that we also need a system change. In her presentation Ms Sharkey spoke about global climate impacts being at crisis levels. She has pointed out that in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is good. Was a date set to discuss the recommendations made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The delegates from RECAP made a very strong statement. They said it was appalling but not surprising that, as a state, we were resorting to buying compliance with our 2020 climate change targets through the use of statistical transfers. I agree with them and welcome their strong statement. I ask them to comment on how we could use the possibility of our facing fines of...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I appeal to the Tánaiste, in the last week of this most historic campaign on the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, to join me in putting some things to bed with the public, who are continually indicating that there is a degree or level of confusion about what this is about. Will the Tánaiste join me in saying to the population that women's lives matter indeed and that this...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I fully agree with everything the Tánaiste said. While I also recognise that a divisive debate is taking place, I want the Tánaiste to join me in stating the use of misleading information and ugly imagery and the claim that what is proposed is a licence to kill are confusing people. If they are asked whether they want to give women the right to decide for themselves, 62% answer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the detection rates of pre-cancerous abnormal cells discovered by each of the four laboratories contracted to conduct the cervical screening tests (details supplied) since 2008 for each of the laboratories concerned. [21805/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the reports and studies relied on by his Department in 2008 and subsequently to support the decision to outsource the cervical screening programme. [21806/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the submissions made by laboratories tendering for contracts for the cervical screening programme in 2008 and on subsequent occasions. [21807/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2014 and subsequent audits commissioned by CervicalCheck were part of the laboratory quality assurance process; and the details of such audits. [21808/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if the screening test conducted in US laboratories is conducted in the same manner as those done in laboratories here; and if all smears are separately screened by two independent medical scientists who are trained as cytologists. [21809/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if the staff conducting smear testing in laboratories outside of the State are qualified to the same standard as those conducting the tests here, that is, if they are medical scientists and pathologists with specific qualifications and training similar to that required to operate here. [21810/18]