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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the HSE has costed the replacement of the national screening program with a HPV based test; and if co-testing of HPV and pap has also been costed. [25051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if HPV testing will be carried out by laboratories here and under a tendering process similar to the current regime. [25052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if new HPV testing will be standardised across all laboratories in order to ensure that variation in detection rates does not reoccur between laboratories. [25053/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if public laboratories based here will be able to conduct the new HPV testing; the provisions being made to increase the capacity and infrastructure of laboratories based here to deal with the work; and if he has examined the need for future graduate programs in universities and the need for on-site facilities and training in hospitals. [25054/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 936. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 810 of 16 January 2018 if he will request the HSE to provide the information requested (details supplied). [25622/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 1158. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints received by the Charities Regulatory Authority about an exhibition (details supplied). [24395/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 1159. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the appointment process of the 13 members of the Charities Regulatory Authority; when they were appointed; and when their position is due for renewal. [24398/18]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State should try cannabis oil.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I repeat, 60 acres.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I will share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Before the Minister of State picked up his script and started reading the usual "blah, blah, blah" we get from the Department - with all due respect to the Minister of State, not the Department - I found his contribution interesting. At least there was engagement with the facts, ideology and ambitions related to housing and what they all mean. He...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: The programme for Government contains a commitment to tackle the problems caused by increased casualisation and precarious work. There is also a commitment to strengthen the role of the Low Pay Commission in relation to in-work poverty. However, there is no commitment to allow workers to strive to seek these things. Today, workers across the country have had to walk out in protest in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: -----who are grossly exploited in these industries, on precarious work and low pay, but does absolutely nothing to recognise their rights to be represented----

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ----by those who they choose to have represent them? It is 105 years since James Connolly and Jim Larkin tried to organise unions in this country.

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017; the reason for its delay; her plans to provide protection for workers in defined benefit schemes in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26583/18]

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can I come in?

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is why I am sitting here. I could have watched it on the TV otherwise.

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thought I had a right to come in as I was being grouped with Deputy Joan Collins.

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I do not.

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. I did not realise.

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thought you were forgetting about me.