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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I would like to ask the Tánaiste if he could outline for the Dáil the detail of the Defence Forces vision statement in Strategic Framework: Transformation of the Defence Forces, and if he would refer to No. 42 on page 12, the new Defence Forces vision statement that is to be developed and published. In his understanding of the vision, would it have any impact on Irish neutrality?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: If I could expand on the question, I am sure the cultural changes the Tánaiste talks about are all that he touched on, but he will notice that a lot of us were alarmed when he was in Ukraine that he announced that Irish forces would be providing rifle training. Hitherto, casualty care training was provided with the German army, and demining and explosives clearance were provided with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I agree that the biggest obstacle facing the Palestinian people is defending their territory against attack by Israeli army forces. The biggest challenge facing the people of Yemen is to defend themselves against the attack by the Saudi army. We are seeing similar aggressive attacks happening around the world, into which the description of the UN charter the Tánaiste just quoted would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is a new definition.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We do not get an answer to the whataboutery. You have not answered-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: You still regard rifle training as non-lethal.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: So you said in the media.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Would you apply the definition to the Palestinian people?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: The bottom line is clear. You are stretching the meaning of neutrality beyond its limits.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of how the €500,000 funding that was made available in 2009 for a memorial to honour all survivors of all State-run industrial schools is to be used; if she will outline details of the proposed memorial; to provide a timescale for when it will be in place; if she will acknowledge that survivors are eager to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare, and in doing so, agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 550. 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 given not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to increase childcare fees for 2023/2024 by designating the previous year's (2022/2023) fees as an introductory fee...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I think Deputy Wynne is next. We are Paddy last.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We are not allowed to be nice to each other.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: We support the Bill and believe, to echo what others have said, that it needs amending. We would welcome an answer from the Minister as to whether he is open to amendments and if and when the framework as to when the Bill might be passed would be outlined to us. We have been through an epidemic of misogyny and gender-based violence, violence against women. Sometimes, when you stop and think...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Some of our best and brightest brains gathered outside the Dáil within the past hour to demand a living wage. Earlier in the year, through engagement with the Minister, Deputy Harris, PhD students had their income increased to €25,000 a year for full-time work, but that impacts on only 30% of the total PhD student population. The rest of them are creased trying to live in this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houseboats currently moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation; if, in the event the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, he will outline the projected number of houseboats that will be permitted to moor on these canals; the projected number of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current mooring fees levied on houseboats moored on the Grand Canal, Royal Canal and Barrow navigation under the existing canals by-laws; if he will outline, in the event that the revisions currently proposed to the canals by-laws by Waterways Ireland are adopted, the mooring or houseboat permit fees that will be levied...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider commissioning a new consultation process in line with the Government’s Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making regarding Waterway Ireland’s proposed revisions to the canals by-laws, in light of the profound and highly disruptive changes which these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard from €750 to €1,000 for couples and from €350 to €500 for single carers, with subsequent increases in the following years. [42872/23]