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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: Ms de Buitléir said most are affected by it. Is a certain grade of staff affected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: I ask the question because my father was a bus driver and he got the old age pension and a tiny pension from CIÉ but I believe the grades above him - inspectors and so on - did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: It is not a grade issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: A number of points jump out from the witnesses' presentations, such as that one fifth of the pensioners are on €12,000 a year. The statistics are startling and indicate a level of income poverty that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: Mr. Kelly made a startling comment, which is that having a freeze on one's pension for ten years is a big chunk of one's life when one is a pensioner. One does not have that many ten years left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: If I could make one last comment, somebody said there has been lobbying on behalf of the companies and the employers' organisation. That is written all over this. I do not like to separate myself from the witnesses but the pensioners need to start lobbying harder and making their voices heard because these statistics and facts are stark. I echo what Deputy O'Dea said at the end of his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)
Bríd Smith: What the witnesses have presented to us has been very useful and I thank them.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process under which a company (details supplied) received contracts to build schools from his Department; the procurement process used; the criteria for awarding the contracts; the officials within his Department that oversaw the process; if his Department was involved in the decision to award the contracts; if not, if the process was...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the site visits to building sites for school projects conducted by his Department or by other agents on his behalf, specifically all visits to sites operated by a company (details supplied) since 2008; and the reports and or observations submitted as a result of these visits. [45129/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: 837. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the source and amount of biomass that Bord na Móna will import to co-fire the affected power stations that use peat production; the plans Bord na Móna has to source biomass in the period ahead to replace its ceased peat production; and the studies carried out on the projected CO2 emissions of this sourced...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: Can we see the legal advice given to the Minister on how this Title is framed? It is important that we see what the lawyers are advising the Minister on. The word "abortion" being eliminated from the law is an obfuscation and a deliberate ignoring of what is going on here. We should call a spade a spade, and that is why we put it in as an amendment. I would be very interested to see the...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: Am I allowed to move it, even though I am not a member of the committee?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, line 19, to delete "Termination of Pregnancy" and substitute "Abortion".
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: We are on amendment No. 2.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: I will speak to amendment No. 5 because the sentiment is not about trying to cod the public about what it voted for in May in the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. A GP-led service is a service where one rings up and makes an appointment at one's GP clinic. As we move towards Sláintecare, and hopefully we will, it will mostly be in primary care centres located in communities....
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, line 5, after “register” to insert “and also a competently trained healthcare practitioner”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: No. I will withdraw it to reintroduce it at a later stage.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Bríd Smith: Yes.