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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the progress to Committee Stage of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; the proposals his Department has to enhance the representative rights of retired workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9411/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State support the progress to Committee Stage of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021, what proposals his Department has to enhance the representative rights of retired workers and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I note what the Minister of State said about the status of retired workers and the dangers of a third party coming into negotiations. Nevertheless, what these workers are seeking is that if they have a problem with their pensions after the six-month limitation of their having left work has passed, they would be able to go to the WRC. They want that six-month limitation to be lifted to allow...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am talking about the lived experience of 500,000 retired workers who are represented by the people who met the previous Minister of State, Deputy English, with me. There are quite a few retired workers' organisations. They represent a significant cohort of retired workers, but these people are not retired voters. They paid into occupational pension schemes, which basically comprises...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage Levels (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 92. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a recent survey (details supplied) showing that the vast majority of workers have not received wage rises in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 to prevent employers from treating the upper range of banded hours as a cap when additional hours are being distributed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9249/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 126. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on non-compliance by private security firms with the Employment Regulation Order for the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will abolish sub-minimum rates of pay for young workers and ensure that all workers receive at least the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9250/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will meet with representatives of workers of a supermarket chain (details supplied) who have been employed there since before 1998 and who have faced numerous attacks on their status by the company, including the refusal by the company to award them pay rises given to other staff; if he can clarify the protections that are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: This morning, the Minister, Deputy Coveney, gave an extraordinary interview on a number of fronts, not least his guarded defence of the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins. What was more worrying was his attitude to the hike in prices by Electric Ireland. He sounded like an innocent bystander, pretty much as the Taoiseach has sounded today on the same topic. The Government seems to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Exactly. Innocent bystanders.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council meeting. [9962/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to return to the question of what the EU discussed in relation to migration. I know the meeting was prior to the tragedy that happened in the Mediterranean, where at least 62 people, including a month-old baby and twin toddlers among 12 children, drowned coming from countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. We know that the accurate number of deaths recorded in the Mediterranean...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The ESB, founded in the 1920s, is run on a not-for-profit basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: It put the lights on everywhere in the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Let the migrants work.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9963/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Shocking figures from the HSE today show us that 27% of all deaths during Covid were of people in nursing homes. It is a shocking reminder of how we failed the most vulnerable cohort during the pandemic. I, along with others in this House, sat on a special Dáil committee during the Covid pandemic, which made a priority recommendation that the State should conduct a full inquiry into...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9964/23]

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. I thank friends and comrades in the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade for talking to me in the last while and sharing notes with me. I am proud to say that I have got to know a lot of them very well over the last few years, particularly since I was a councillor. DFB was and still is run by the council. It is still under-funded. It always has been....