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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: The review is part of the law. The Taoiseach does not seem to get it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is there a requirement to ignore it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: If you ignore the review, why have it in there?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with health will next meet. [32547/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to raise again the question of Covid payments for front-line workers. We recently saw a protest by hospital cleaners, who were contract cleaners and who are being refused the €1,000 Covid payment, despite the fact that they work daily on the front line. Today it has come to my attention that section 39 workers who are personal care workers for people with disabilities have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is exactly what they were exposed to.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (4 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the case of four workers (details supplied) who have been dismissed by a company for trade union activity; if he will meet with these workers and their representatives; if he has plans to introduce legislation to protect workers in these situations and strengthen the right to collective bargaining and trade union...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am thankful for the opportunity to talk about this subject again. It seems to me that there is a bit of a competition in the House on the nature restoration law with various groups wanting to prove they are the ones most opposed to it. This is the second time in a week we have had a lengthy motion essentially calling for an outright rejection of the proposed nature restoration law. One...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32548/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I raise the latitude or discretion afforded to local authorities when making decisions about the allocation of social housing and the purchase of housing under the tenant in situscheme. Mr. Denis Murphy and his family were offered a home before Christmas by South Dublin County Council. The family's means were assessed and the income was over the threshold. The reason was that Mrs. Murphy...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do. I did not realise we were on section 2 already. One of my amendments was ruled out of order. That was to argue for 100% of the tax to be taken. That has been ruled out of order because apparently it would have a cost to the Exchequer. There are many problems with the Bill and much that we did not foresee when we saw the heads of Bill. I hoped it would be quite a progressive Bill...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: Fair enough.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: Apologies for being late for the debate. I listened to the previous Deputies, all of whom spoke clearly on the issue. I am really coming here as an alternative to Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett, who is at another committee. I wish Deputy Boyd Barrett was here because, as we know, he was born in a mother and baby home. It is one of the many things that are excluded from this scheme with which...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: It has changed. Why did the Government bring it back to us if we will not get to vote on it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail the number of people currently in emergency accommodation; the numbers who have been there for over 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail the number of purchases of properties by local authorities and approved housing bodies under the tenant-in-situ scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who will receive a hot school meal in the new school term from September; and the number planned for the following year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there is such a delay in providing Dublin City Council with the funds to complete the upgrade work that is so urgently needed in the Labre Park halting site; the reason there is a delay in providing the funds required to commence the regeneration of the Labre Park halting site; the cause of the delays in providing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Women's Resource Centres (6 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify if any of the 98 further women's refuge centres announced in priority locations by 2025 will be located in Carlow (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33253/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the workers from Iceland here today and they are up in the Gallery. I hope everyone welcomes them. They have been busy campaigning, unionising and some of them occupying their stores where they are losing their jobs. We have just learned that five more stores have pulled down the shutters today without any consultation with workers. The issue of the Iceland workers has been...