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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am here just over two years and, in those two years, time after time the Minister has come in here to eulogise the privatisation of broadband. I almost feel sorry for him that by now he is probably choking on his words. He repeatedly says what a wonderful plan this is and what it is going to do for the country. Bidder after bidder has fallen aside but the Minister still comes in here to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I recently heard the Taoiseach eulogise the Land Development Agency comparing it to the electrification of Ireland, a comparison I often use when I talk to the Minister about broadband. I think that is a joke but I also think it is such a shame that we privatised broadband. It will go down in history as one of the worst decisions this Government has made. Of course, I welcome and look...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: To add to that, I doubt if there are many in this House who can imagine what anticipation, hope and joy a family have when they are told, after years of waiting, with many of them in homeless accommodation, that this is their home. Deputy Ó Snodaigh spoke about the homes in Cherry Orchard, which are gorgeous. They are passive housing and have lovely fitted kitchens and so on. They are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: We have to take very seriously the urgent need to complete the projects and move people into their homes in Cherry Orchard. One of the subcontractors says it is disgraceful how things have gone with Ireland's housing crisis. He says it is not MDY's fault, but is rather something in the background we do not know about, which is having a knock-on effect with every supplier and subcontractor....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State email us?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to save the existing post office network in view of the recent closures of rural post offices and the plans for future closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37614/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to plans by Bord na Móna and the ESB to generate electricity by use of large scale biomass and that such plans could result in the destruction of forests outside the State and lead to the generation of increased emissions of CO2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37616/18]

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Ruth Coppinger.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to start by stating something obvious. I am not being smart, but I hope it is obvious that I am a woman, that I have access to CervicalCheck services and that I support the screening programme. I have received a lot of criticism for scaremongering. I am not scaremongering; rather, I am querying why the outsourcing issue has not been properly addressed. Privatisation and outsourcing...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister to address that issue, please, because I am worried about the future of the service as well as its past.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: We have not got the ability to do so.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Today.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am glad that the Minister has qualified that the laboratories are safe "today". It is an historical question and there is a need for an investigation into outsourcing. I again ask the Minister, probably for the sixth time, if he will give the Oireachtas the information on from which laboratories the 221 false negative test results came. I am told by reliable scientists that it would be...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister keeps saying "today".

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: What about before today?

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: He said they were not ISO accredited. There are different standards.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I do not believe that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to reconsider its plan to remove 10% of direct bus services into the city in view of concerns from many residents in Dublin over the proposed BusConnects plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37772/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the awarding of bus routes in Dublin to a company (details supplied) in view of its record in Britain and the levels of pay and conditions of employment that workers at the company will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37773/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry I missed most of the discussion and apologise if I am repeating things in my questions. I heard the presentations but not most of the discussion. Returning to the issue of the three days, I note from the presentations that there is nearly full agreement that this should be fundamentally a community-based service, that the vast majority of abortions are likely to be medical, that...