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Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Yes. Should I ask my questions now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I submitted a question on the same subject of the referendum. I will add to the Taoiseach's pain with a pile of other questions. I am wondering about the selection process of 99 citizens. Any reputable polling company would never conduct a selection of 100 people. It would rather have 1,000 people as it is much more representative of the population. I want the Taoiseach to tease...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: We need to know on what basis they were chosen. They are all my questions. I want the detailed answers because we got a very scant reply already.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Could the Taoiseach say that again please?

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will not support this Bill. There is absolutely a need for a Bill which addresses hate crime. There have been attacks on migrants, refugees and people from different religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds and we would welcome a Bill that addresses this problem correctly but unfortunately this Bill is not what we need. I am not fully equipped to deal with whether this Bill is...

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Okay. Another councillor from Kerry referred to people from outside the county who had relocated in Kerry securing houses over people who had been on the waiting list for a longer time. He actually mentioned 150 Wards. He did not mean electoral areas but the family Ward on the county council waiting list. If those and many other comments were directed at any other group, it would be seen...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the plans he has for any referenda in the coming year. [27372/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether his Department's withholding of certain payments from members of the ASTI will help achieve the Government's aim of modernising the education system or promote excellence and innovation in schools. [28375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether present disputes may affect the morale of secondary school teachers and the ability of the system to deliver excellence and innovation as per the programme for Government. [28376/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department intervened in the ongoing refusal of a State-supported company (details supplied) to honour a Labour Court finding in relation to workers made redundant; if his Department has instructed this company not to use State funds to honour the findings of another State agency; and if he will intervene in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason funding is made available to a private company (details supplied) by his Department while this company is refusing to obey the judgment of a State-appointed body in regard to its workforce. [28060/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 592. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the precise supports given by the IDA and any other State agency to a company (details supplied). [28046/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 593. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the financial support, if any, offered by the State to a company (details supplied). [28047/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 594. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs her Department expects a company (details supplied) to provide here in 2017. [28048/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 595. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the general supports client-supported companies can expect from the IDA and any other State agency that fall under her Department's remit. [28049/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: When the Simon Community’s latest report was released, it showed very clearly that the people least able to access private rental accommodation are those on the lowest incomes, those dependent on the housing assistance payment, HAP scheme and those on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. If the Taoiseach reads the Simon Community report he will see that they are not able to get rented...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Social housing.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding for proposed rapid builds is new funding or if it is funding that was previously allocated to other housing projects. [28610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local authorities are postponing projects for regular build social housing to fund rapid build houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28611/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is extraordinary that the Minister introduced this session by outlining his vision for public transport and saying that it was about getting people from home to work, school and social activities, given the fact that, according to himself, when he met Bus Éireann and it revealed the disastrous situation it was in and the stringent changes it believed it had to make, he did not...