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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (21 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received correspondence relating to allegations of bullying and sexual harassment in the Defence Forces; his plans for a full inquiry into the complaints; and if he or his officials will meet with survivors of such abuse. [17323/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation in relation to a person who has been granted an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme in circumstances (details supplied); and the supports available for single parents in such circumstances. [16520/20]

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: No.

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Seven minutes and three minutes.

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I talk for longer than he does.

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Lahart stated that no stone would be left unturned. We are not asking the Government to turn any stone. Rather, we are asking it to drop its amendment because that amendment is worse than outright opposition. It essentially repeats what Eamon de Valera - in this, the Minister of State is at least being consistent - said to Irish workers all those decades ago, namely, that labour...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his priority legislation to deal with the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to give security to renters and help for those with rent arrears as a result of the continuing Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on jobseeker's payment that go abroad for a holiday will have their payments affected in view of SI No. 242 of 2020; if the instrument applies to countries on the green list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17912/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank our guests for their presentations. Mr. Cullen stated that travel is being used a bogeyman to justify the lack of investment in every other area to do with the virus. That is a pretty big claim and I would like to tease it out with him. He indicated that his work is all about safety and risk management. There is no doubt that air travel is one of the safest forms of transport. In...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: Somebody called it the Father Ted policy because of things like the inclusion of Monaco and other states which just do not make sense.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I do not disagree with Mr. Cullen on that point. However, on the wider question of opening up travel, there are things we have to look at. The witnesses said in their submission that aviation was being treated as the bogeyman in all of this. There was mention of high-efficiency particulate air, HEPA, systems. We have workers in Bus Éireann, for instance, who are being put in grave...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am asking about the airports.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I have a final question for Mr. Cullen.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I did not get a chance to ask the last question I had for Mr. Cullen.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I did not take five minutes and my last question is a short one.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a very short question.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is okay for the first two speakers to go over but not for me to do so.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on International Travel (24 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chair for letting me in again. I wanted to ask about the wage subsidy scheme which most of the airlines have been receiving from day one, yet they imposed pay cuts and job losses. There has been an advocacy to say that the State needs to step in and give more support. According to this submission, conditions are attached to state support given to Iberia, KLM and Air France such...