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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is the Department engaging with the pensioners?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Persons Data (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children in emergency accommodation in each local authority area; the average period of time spent by children in accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51864/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: The issue of school secretaries was previously discussed in the House. I understand that an insulting and paltry increase of 1.5% was offered at the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the talks have broken down. The secretaries were not looking for a particular increase but, rather, parity with secretaries in education and training board, ETB, schools and, most importantly, to be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: What the Minister is saying to the school secretaries is, "Happy Christmas and good luck to you". They are planning further industrial action on 10 January next, and it is not for the reasons the Minister has outlined. They went into those talks in good faith and on the understanding that they were pursuing parity of pay and conditions. Pay is just one element and leaves out the...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I attended the launch of Dr. Johnny Connolly's report this morning in Dublin South Central and I recommend it. It makes for very interesting reading and reflects many communities around Ireland where this is a problem. The Bill is welcome and if it gets past Second Stage, we will probably table amendments to it. The fact that children as young as 12 are becoming involved in drug...

Domestic Violence: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: If anybody has looked at the Women's Aid website on the 16 facts for the 16 days, they are, indeed, stark. One-in-two women murdered in Ireland is killed by her partner or ex-partner. One-in-three women experiences emotional abuse from a partner or ex-partner. One-in-eight women is abused while pregnant. Ireland has only one third of the refuge space required for this outrageous problem....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if income limits for access to the social housing waiting lists will be examined in view of recent reports that show the difficulty of persons accessing affordable housing and the inability of many to qualify for mortgages but who are above income limits for local authority housing waiting lists; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the first-time buyers help to buy incentive scheme to cover second-hand houses and apartments and not just new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51925/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding and expenditure not spent by each Department and returned to the Exchequer in 2019. [51923/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to start by reminding everyone that the emergency we are currently going through is both a climate emergency and a biodiversity emergency. This is important in the context of this discussion, particularly where Coillte is concerned. Its representatives say that Coillte manages one fifth of its estate primarily for biodiversity. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: My first question was mainly addressed at the representatives of Coillte.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy. I was being slightly facetious; I could not resist it. I ask the representatives to address the questions of bogs versus forestry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: If that is the case, why do Bord na Móna and Coillte have a memorandum of understanding? Even though they are used bogs, would it not be better to rewet or rehabilitate them rather than planting on them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Can the way financial incentives are distributed be changed to encourage smaller farmers to get involved, rather than big companies coming in and buying up land on which to grow massive amounts of trees? Can the financial incentives that are given to such companies be redistributed? Has a different model been examined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is why I want to stray there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am afraid it is up to me as a Deputy to ask the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have a question for the Minister. I noted his statement on the RCOG report. I have ideological issues with the way CervicalCheck has been outsourced. I acknowledge that but I also acknowledge that the Minister needs and wants, and I accept that women must have, confidence in CervicalCheck, that it has to be used, that it is a good thing and that it saves lives. I want to get that out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: This woman participated in none of these reviews. She was left out of everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Has that report been published?