Results 2,301-2,320 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: There is a difference between a job description and a contract of employment. Obviously a job description informs a prospective employee of what the job will be like. I would have thought that on the day an employee starts they should be handed their contract of employment. That would be a reasonable halfway house between what Deputy Brady is saying and what the Minister is proposing. In...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: In my experience using the full rigour of the law is never adequate when it comes to the exploitation of workers. I make a basic point to the Minister. There is a relationship between somebody who is buying a worker's labour and the worker selling it. When someone is selling his or her labour, he or she needs to know under what conditions he or she is doing so. What happens on day one...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Why?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: It is perfectly reasonable.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I am baffled as to why the Department is using substitute teachers as an argument. Substitute teachers are contracted by the State under a different arrangement. I know many of them. Members of my family are substitute teachers. I am sure everybody in the room knows some of them. It is not the same as being on the contract with which we are trying to deal. What the State requires of a...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: The root of this is the definition of what a worker is. It is people who sell their labour or who own their labour and use it for their own benefit because self-employment would imply that people are doing it for themselves. When they are selling their labour, they are creating wealth and profit and doing things for somebody else, namely, the employer. We need to look at how we define what...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I have a question for the more experienced Deputies and the Chairman. If we do not pass section 9 now, can we amend it again on the next Stage? I am innocent as to how all of this works procedurally. I do not disagree with the Minister imposing criminal sanctions but we might lose out by not considering amendments that have been ruled out order. I do not disagree with what she is trying...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: The same Standing Orders will apply but could we come at it differently?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Okay.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Does the Minister think that three days is reasonable? Or three and a half days? Will we haggle?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: If we do not accept it, can we revisit it on Report Stage? Can we table different amendments and come at it from a different philosophical perspective, rather than just focus on the wording?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I ask the Deputy to tell me as he has been in this place for a long time.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: We add our voices of sympathy and solidarity for the families of those murdered at the weekend. In the last week there has been a notable change in the tone of the debate surrounding the eighth amendment for the better. I also commend the remarkable surge in energy and determination of those who are campaigning in this referendum, particularly on the Yes-Tá side, up and down the...
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: -----the medical supervision of doctors. Has the Cabinet thought about when it will bring that legislation before the House? We argue it should do so ASAP.
- Order of Business (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I do not know of any complacency.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a co-educational, non-denominational, non-fee-paying secondary school for children in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12, in view of the fact that existing schools are at capacity and this is forcing parents and children to travel considerable distances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22452/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision of a college (details supplied) to raise the fees payable for music lessons for adult students only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22453/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (22 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 1 May 2018, if his Department sanctioned a fee increase aimed solely at adult and mature music students. [21991/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: It is not fair to be quizzing these witnesses about the political apparatus.