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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Supports (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments or supports available for a foster parent who fosters young children and that as a consequence is not available to seek full-time work and thus will not qualify for jobseeker's allowance. [41445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Expenditure (10 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment made by Tusla for fostering is not taken into account when means testing a foster parent's entitlement to social welfare payments; and the support available when the only payment entering such a household is the Tusla foster care allowance and child benefit allowance. [41446/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the establishment at the weekend of the patient support and advocacy group for women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal, 221 Plus. I echo the calls for accountability among managers in the health service for errors that have been made, but that should also be extended to accountability among the political class for the error made in the first instance by outsourcing this vital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: We have been given the same answer again. The Taoiseach answer did not address my question. I asked him specifically about public service contracts being offered to cytologists in MedLab. Is that an indicator the Government is serious about taking the service back into public control? If MedLab and all the other laboratories were entirely up to scratch, why is the Taoiseach offering...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: To know whether they were negligent, one must know from where they came.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I assume that since the Taoiseach has left the Chamber he is probably not interested in hearing what I have to say. I guess the role of the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, is to relate what is said and to be party to the discussion even if he is not going to Europe. I echo what nearly everybody has said here, namely, that there needs to be a very clear, strong message sent to both the...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I think I deserve a few seconds back due to that intervention by your good self.

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State, Deputy Breen, is missing from the Chamber. There is a wonderful attendance from Fine Gael tonight, but one of the men involved in this is missing, and everyone should know that his title is Minister of State with responsibility for trade, employment, business, the EU digital Single Market and data protection. How can anyone claim that a Minister of State with such...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: -----of housing and health, the bags it has made of this and of CervicalCheck and the fact that it is not running this country properly in a way that would service citizens.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ask HIQA to investigate the misdiagnosed slides of the 221 women involved in the CervicalCheck scandal; and if this investigation will identify the laboratories involved and the cause of the errors committed in these laboratories. [41940/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if he will expand on the term "available evidence" which he stated in his reply indicates a very high level of compliance with the microchip legislation; if his attention has been drawn to the feedback from rescue groups that there is an extremely low level of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (16 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 7 September 2018, if there is a legal aspect of the microchip legislation under review; if so, the detail of same; and the cause, possible implications and proposed timeframe involved until the issue is resolved. [41898/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions he plans to take to ensure accountability and transparency in An Garda Síochána on foot of the Charleton report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42707/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: My question asks the Minister what actions he plans to take to ensure accountability and transparency in An Garda Síochána on foot of the Charleton report and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I do not know if I will be around for the debate on the report but I asked the Minister what actions he plans to take in respect of accountability and transparency in An Garda Síochána on foot of this report. I am sure the Minister has given the matter some thought, as I and many political activists have. As Mr. Justice Charleton pointed out, the improvement "that is most needed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: In fairness, most of the focus so far has been on Taylor and Callinan. Far more needs to be done for public accountability as regards the actions of gardaí at all ranks and all levels. My confidence in the new Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was fairly shaky in the beginning given his record in dealing with the historical legacy in Northern Ireland but also given that his first public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take to end the direct provision system; and his views on recent reports regarding the number of children in the direct provision system. [42443/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: What plans does the Minister have to end the direct provision system? It is more than three years since the McMahon report was published, which has been discussed at length in the House. Judgment was passed in the court case on the right to work, which is extremely restricted and very difficult for people in direct provision to access. I ask the Minister to comment on the latest figures on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is interesting that the Minister of State wants to hear views on alternative systems. I can think of one. Offering immediately shelter, food and safety to children and their parents who come here is a challenge, but leaving them in direct provision accommodation for up to seven years is absolutely obscene. There is an alternative to the system, namely, not having the meeting of the...