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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if recent moves by a childcare provider (details supplied) are a breach of any undertaking not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to charge parents for after-school fees while the child is out of school term represents a back-door way to increase fees; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not heads of agreement but an MOU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I apologise for being so specific about this. Is Mr Keating implying that there is not competition between the ports and that they have co-ordinated, joined-up thinking at national level about who goes where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not the State and not the port authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: So the ports are competing with each other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Instead of joining it up and co-ordinating who goes where. That is what I thought. I thank Mr. Keating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank all the representatives for coming. I apologise for just arriving and firing questions at them that have probably been asked. If they have, I ask our guests to indulge me and give some brief answers to them. My first question is in the context of our rising emissions, which shot up by 12% in the final months of last year. This was the complete opposite to most other European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is the Business Postright that the Port of Cork signed heads of agreement with a US firm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Sorry, will Mr. Murphy say that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: And would the rest of the ports welcome LNG? Has there been discussions in Foynes or anywhere else?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (11 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of recent actions by a company (details supplied) which are aimed at unilaterally changing the work contract of senior staff and separately the changing of hours and remuneration of delivery staff; if he will meet with worker representatives on foot of these moves to examine their concerns on the limitations of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreign Conflicts (11 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to help evacuate the relatives of Irish citizens still trapped in Sudan; if the State will fast-track applications for family reunification or issue emergency visas to ensure family members can come to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22304/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Earlier this year, the Iceland supermarket chain was sold in its entirety but continues to trade. Conditions for workers in those stores have seriously deteriorated. The big issue for them is that many of them have not been consistently paid for the hours they worked. Many of them are owed quite a lot of money. Their trade union, the Independent Workers Union of Ireland, reckons that at...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----so that when the majority of employees have joined a union, like the Independent Workers Union, they cannot be told "Go to hell, we are not engaging with you". This employer has broken the law by refusing to pay these workers' wages.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: This is not industrial peace.

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit welcomes the publication of this survey. The SAVI report was completed 21 years ago, in 2002, but unfortunately successive governments have been very slow to provide the funding and resources necessary for the desperately needed recommendations in that report. Despite the claims or perceptions that we have progressed in this society or somehow become more liberal or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a report (details supplied) which highlighted that one in four employees stating they suffered from moderate levels of burnout, vicarious trauma and moderate or high levels of “compassion fatigue”; if he will acknowledge the disparity between contracts for teachers and coordinators and managers of the organisation,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is a good way of putting it.

Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023: First Stage (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023. I noted the Tánaiste's earlier response to Deputy Bacik, when he said that the Government will do anything to help reduce emissions. Here is a good idea for this Government. The Bill is very simple. We have a climate emergency, both globally and...