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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is creating a legal quagmire that could potentially see people who do not want women to have the right to choose going in and out of court to challenge the construct of the national maternity hospital on the basis of this deal for the next 300 years. It is not that I do not trust anybody at all on the planet to do stuff. I absolutely trust the clinicians sitting here in front...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is hard to know what is left to be said about this debacle, other than for me to be very critical of how the Government has behaved over the past two weeks. The Government brought us into this Chamber, into repeated committee meetings and into media debates under a pretence. That pretence was that it was willing to engage and listen to the concerns of the Opposition, the women of Ireland...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: -----and we attempt to form a left Government. That Government, because of this document, will never be ale to take full control and ownership of a hospital that was built with public money. It will never happen because one of the clauses accompanying the reduced level of rent states that St. Vincent's Holdings will never be challenged by the State and taken off the pitch. I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the position in relation to the current JobBridge scheme and the current contracts with SeeTec and Turas Nua; when this contact expires; if there is a new proposed tendering process for the services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify what if any provisions her Department has made for dealing or absorbing current LES staff who may lose their positions as a result of the tendering process for those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24561/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of including those who work in the homeless sector (details supplied) in the Covid-19 recognition scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe in which the working group to examine defects in housing report on defective apartments will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to defective apartments which have failed fire regulation standards; the scheme that he will establish to deal with the matter; if the mica scheme provides a blueprint for future schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the number of apartments that were purchased by local authorities which have defective elements such as fire standards and so on; if they can be included as part of any defective apartments scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will automatically extend stamp 2 visa permissions due to expire on 31 May until 30 September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24799/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 661. To ask the Minister for Health the plans there are to extend the Covid-19 recognition scheme to those homeless sector front-line workers who meet all the criteria publicly announced and who work in identical clinical and residential settings to sections 38 and 39 organisations already included in the recognition payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the Government and HSE have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical card holders are often asked to pay at least €20 for a sick note from a general practitioner; if there are plans to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients receiving the household benefit package and the fuel allowance; the number who are in receipt of both payments; when the last rise in the fuel element of the household benefit package took place; and if there are plans to raise the amount in the coming period. [25299/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I know. Does Dr. Boylan know of any example of something similar to this anywhere else in the world where such a complex convoluted labyrinthine deal has been done to co-locate a hospital.

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I will begin by acknowledging all the communities out there. There are very many across my own constituency and they are growing daily. They are really engaged and energised in direct action to fight to help repair and preserve the biodiversity in their neighbourhoods. It is great to see it. I want to thank Jane Stout and Micheál Ó...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am alarmed by Professor Higgins' tone in suggesting we are being over the top, emotive and trying to make out that the church will come in and steal the entire agenda. He has got it wrong. I was a young woman in the early 1980s. I had an abortion at that time and had to go to Liverpool for it. I campaigned against the eighth amendment as a young woman and then lived through the years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, I accept that. However, I believe Professor Higgins should also defend the women of Ireland who come into his wards every day. The women of Ireland have concerns-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: In the corridors yesterday, the Minister told me that for most of the HSE hospitals that are not providing abortion the reason is funding - the HSE and proper funding. That is what the Minister told me.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the progress made to date or planned in enacting legislation to protect workers in cases of mass redundancies including a recent case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the progress made in enacting the workplace ventilation Bill and its provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25209/22]