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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask about how much the current Minister and the previous Minister know about this. I asked my colleagues when the current Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection took office, and I asked it for a reason. I had some research done in May 2017, over two years ago, on bogus self-employment. In that, the Oireachtas Research and Library Service quoted to me the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: His answer to that parliamentary question was that if an arrangement constitutes bogus self-employment and results in reduced income tax and social insurance contributions, it is something neither he nor the Minister for Finance would be prepared to allow to continue. That was two years ago and two years is quite a long time. I say that publicly because I want to draw the attention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: 591. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has instigated, or will instigate, an independent audit regarding the amount of carbon emissions to be mitigated by the Climate Action Plan 2019 to tackle climate breakdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26433/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (26 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 18 April 2019, when the ward in a nursing home (details supplied) will be reopened; and the number of similar beds closed in the system nationally [27020/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In a significant development, Dublin City Council yesterday endorsed a motion from one of our councillors, Tina MacVeigh from People Before Profit, to re-municipalise waste management in the city. That means taking the waste management system back into public control and ownership. This very important development paves the way for addressing environmental concerns, the concerns of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We need sustainable waste management and we can only achieve that via public control.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is opposed to the re-municipalisation of waste management. He does not agree with it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 55. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the planned closure of beds and units at St. Mary's Hospital; the rationale for the closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27926/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Inquiry (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories from which the 221 false readings came in the CervicalCheck screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27925/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We have been debating An Post and its dilemma for some time in these Chambers, usually in the context of small rural post offices closing. I remember a time when there was a big row in this House about which Minister was responsible, whether it was the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, the Minister for Rural and Community Development or the Minister for Culture,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commission an independent investigation into the greyhound industry on foot of evidence of practices of widespread abuse and cruelty in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28215/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all funding to the greyhound industry will be suspended in view of a television documentary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28214/19]

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, lines 22 to 26, to delete all words from and including “woman-” in line 22 down to and including line 26 and substitute the following: “woman within the time of the Statute of Limitations,”. The reason for the amendment is that the Bill wants to put a limit on women accessing the tribunal of six months after they find out...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The argument is that it should not have any impact on the award from the tribunal, which may be judging from a different category of injuries. Therefore, why should the ex gratiapayment be subtracted?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have tabled amendment No. 14. This issue is important because anybody who knows someone who has suffered from cancer knows the return of the cancer can be much more distressing and dangerous than the original condition. It would be punitive not to allow for this. There is a likelihood in certain cases that the cancer will return later on. What will women do if they find themselves in...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: Asking the women to sign a waiver against making future claims may be desirable from the women's point of view in respect of the recurrence of the same cancer, and I am not talking about getting cancer of the eye or the brain later. If, however, the Minister's intention is to get women to partake and participate in the tribunal, there is a danger that this will discourage them from...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: I take the latter point about participation by all sides. It is obviously what we need to achieve. What is required, however, is the signing of a waiver by the woman. That is what we want to remove. Regardless of the five-year period mentioned by Deputy Kelly, if there is a recurrence of cervical cancer in ten or 15 years' time, the waiver might mean that the woman would have no redress...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: It was a version of it.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: It was not about non-disclosure but about the whole package, the CervicalCheck system.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In non-disclosure.