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Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: I hope you will be as generous with me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. There is a huge irony which I hope is not lost on the Members of the House. It certainly is not lost on teachers. Members of the AGSI and the GRA are the same people who will be vetting parents and others to do the work of teachers from Monday, when teachers will refuse to do work for which they are not paid. To correct some...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: It has not taken a day's action.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: For the benefit of everybody who needs to understand, I repeat, should the schools close on Monday indefinitely, it will be due not to the action of the teachers but of the Government. The ASTI is not planning action. Its members are just not working for something for which they are not getting paid. None of us here is working for something for which he or she is not getting paid. Very...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Government should pay them for doing the work.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is sounding like William Martin Murphy. He is going to lock out the teachers next Monday.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Coppinger. People Before Profit opposes the Bill on a number of grounds and I will outline our concerns. I have concerns about access to children's psychotherapy notes and believe this should be restricted to exceptional circumstances where more general information from the therapist is not available. However, my chief concern relates to the...

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is complicated.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: Like my colleague, I thank the campaigners in the Visitors Gallery. We owe them a debt. We would not be discussing this tonight were it not for the hard work they have done and their insistence on ensuring this matter was brought before the House. We will do our best to support it and to argue with the other side of the House to take this issue very seriously. I also salute the courage...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the budget allocation to his Department will allow for the needed expansion and provision of additional services and routes for the state's bus and rail services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32791/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the expansion of the public transport network to cope with increasing volumes of passengers in all three companies, Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. [32790/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the contracts for JobPath were put out to tender; the awarding process; the criteria on which it was based; if there was any other applicants; the personal data of persons participating on JobPath that will be passed onto the recruitment agencies; if persons participating will be notified in advance of their data and details being handed over;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons participating on JobPath are paid by either JobPath or the employer for travel, childcare or lunch vouchers; and, if it is the employers who pay, if it is mandatory that they cover costs when they take on a JobPath participant. [32955/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 476. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the upcoming Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and its implications for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31818/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to ensure that any company supported by her Department, or other State agency under her influence, that creates jobs in the coming period does not use schemes such as JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33150/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will ensure that when her Department is recording job figures from IDA or Enterprise Ireland supported companies, that the numbers of such jobs that are supported by the Department of Social Protection, such as JobPath and so on, are separately reported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33002/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Taxi Regulations (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she, her officials or any other State agency that she is aware of have been lobbied or approached by a company (details supplied) regarding the present regulations that govern the taxi industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33000/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Funding (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding that will be granted by the IDA , Enterprise Ireland or other State agencies under the aegis of her Department to client supported companies in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33003/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lobbying Data (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she, her officials or any State agency that she is aware of have been lobbied or had representations made to them by any company or firm supported in any way by the IDA or Enterprise Ireland regarding the State's taxation regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33001/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to ensure companies and firms that are in receipt of State support from the IDA, Enterprise Ireland or any other body comply with the industrial relations laws and protections afforded to workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32999/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (3 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the situation in Irish Rail and Bus Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33102/16]