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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a publicly owned childcare service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19266/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I hope this will expand on the conversation we have just had. Will the Minister and his Department establish a national, publicly-run, funded and owned childcare service?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I argue the national childcare scheme is not fit for purpose. It does not fit the demand and it does not fit the need we have in this country. Parents will say to us it is the most convoluted, confusing and unfair system. I will give one instance, and I am picking up on a thing that comes to my attention regularly. Parents are penalised for wanting to spend more time with their children,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am afraid that in my experience, and a lot of Deputies have spoken about it in different ways tonight, the mishmash of services we have are not keeping sufficiently on top of the demand for childcare. A lot of providers are feeling pretty desperate about the sort of administration challenges they face. The reason I asked the question about the provision of a national publicly-funded and...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Solidarity to the Minister for the threats and the disturbance she and her family have suffered this week. I also express my solidarity to Deputy Paul Murphy, who also this week received death threats from the same sources. I have read over the motion from the Rural Independent Group. It consists of nearly three pages about the migration pact and there is not a single mention of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will abolish childcare fees in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his accommodation plans for international protection applicant refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19263/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the recent report that Irish protesters were told at a pro-Palestine protest camp in Berlin that they were not allowed to speak Irish by German police; if he agrees that this is an unacceptable development and infringes a person's right to speak a language of their choice and is a dangerous precedent to set; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of difficulties facing Dublin Bus and other transport providers in recruiting and retaining maintenance staff; the steps his Department is taking to ensure staff shortages do not hinder the roll out of BusConnects or plans to expand the bus transport system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the staff numbers in maintenance and mechanics for Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and a company (details supplied); the details of any shortages of staff in these areas; the plans by these companies to ensure that staff numbers in these key areas are filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18750/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and a company (details supplied) use directly employed labour in the maintenance of their bus fleet; the scale of these companies' use of contract labour or outside companies for the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18751/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the available State supports for people with disabilities seeking work or already working; if she plans to improve supports; if there are proposals to change these supports in any way in the foreseeable future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide, in tabular form, by month and nationality, the number of people who have been refused permission to land in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19048/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the reason a person (details supplied) who attended the citizenship ceremony at the National Concert Hall on 26 February 2024, has still not received their certificate eight weeks later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19052/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Gabh mo leithscéal, tá tinneas sa scornach agam agus tá mo ghuth lag. I will read from Fianna Fáil's manifesto in 2020 to the electorate in order to sit where they are sitting now. All of its members signed up to this. Ireland will, "Fully maintain neutrality and the Triple Lock ... Fianna Fáil reaffirms its commitment to the retention of the triple lock of UN...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not mention "conscription"-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I asked where the Tánaiste would want to send them. Where does the Government want to send them after they lift the triple lock?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Murphy is correct. It does not make any sense. It is totally illogical to say that we will operate within the UN Charter and, at the same time, we want to break free of the UN Security Council. They are part and parcel of the same package. The Tánaiste has gone back to when he was aged 12 and how he remembers the campaign and how we threatened that there was going to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I would describe it as a colonial power.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It has a colony called "Israel".