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

Bríd Smith: Like you did with Tara Mines, you could expedite talks.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not believe Deputy Gino Kenny is taking his time, so it is just the two of us.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is what I like to hear. I am delighted this Bill is before the House. I congratulate the campaigners in Together for Safety, who have relentlessly pursued this issue, driving us all to keep coming back to it. While repeal was not an easy win and was hard fought for before being won, you could sit back and say it is done and dusted and we no longer have to worry about it. However, we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the European Council on 29 and 30 June 2023. [34014/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department has funded campaigns by the National Dairy Council and Bord Bia about the supposed "sustainability" of Irish milk (details supplied); and whether he has concerns around these campaigns regarding climate disinformation or greenwashing, given the state of the climate and biodiversity crises. [35135/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not know how the Minister reacted to it, but I found the bombardment by the National Dairy Council’s campaign around World Milk Day recently, particularly on television, alarming. It was nothing other than a greenwashing exercise. I was alarmed that it portrayed a need for us all to consume more and more dairy on the grounds that it was efficient, good for the planet, made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I certainly will be making a complaint to the ASAI. In fact, I think it has already gone in. This advertising of dairy and the manner in which it was done is absolute greenwashing and it is disgraceful. It is interesting it came in the same week RTÉ did the exposé on the level of cruelty to animals that takes place in that industry. Every year, the industry slaughters 35,000...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Milk Supply (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not agree we have very robust measures to prevent cruelty to animals. If we had, we would not have seen that report. It is also extremely cruel to separate the male calves from their mothers at birth and to slaughter so many of them. It is an outcome of the industry itself and the fact we are producing such a large dairy herd. We are increasing our emissions from dairy year on year....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, gave a commitment in the House to another group of essential workers, the water workers, that there would be a referendum on the control and ownership of water and on keeping it in public hands and that there would be a guarantee made over their jobs and conditions, in particular their rostered overtime and extra allowances. They have never, ever...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: If it guaranteed, why is the employer not engaging with the union?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection who have applied from Ukraine since the Russian invasion; if applicants who were not in Ukraine at the time of the invasion are accepted into the temporary protection to persons fleeing the war in Ukraine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if an older couple with medical issues (details supplied) who have rented a three-bedroomed property for the past ten years which the landlord has offered to Dublin City Council to purchase under the tenant-in-situ scheme, can be approved for this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33661/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether the tenant-in-situ scheme includes properties in which tenants are considered 'overaccommodated' (details supplied); if not, if he will provide details of the number of properties that local authorities have refused to purchase on this basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been approved for the €1,000 pandemic payment; when they will receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33481/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Inquiries (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the progress of the public inquiry into nursing home deaths during Covid 19, which he promised in January 2023. [32555/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify if there are plans to amend section 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 as amended by section 39 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 so that a sexually abused child or adult will not have their private counselling or therapy records made available to the accused abuser; if she will clarify the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (12 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to undertake a review of the fair deal scheme; if he will detail the precise terms of reference that would underwrite such a review; if he intends either within the context of such a review or independently of such a review to establish the level of charges that nursing home residents are incurring from their disposable income for daily...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Bord Bia should be funding climate disinformation about the supposed 'sustainability' of Irish milk, given the state of the climate and biodiversity crises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (13 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he will support a ban on coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34760/23]