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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 253.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has read the communication from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the delay in signing the new Employment Regulation Order for security officers; if he acknowledges that security officers are some of the most poorly paid workers in the State and are struggling to pay their bills as a result; if he will commit to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 431.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is self-employed and who was placed on the temporary Covid payment during the pandemic has an entitlement to jobseekers’ benefit payments, or to the State pension (contributory) at 66 given that contributions during the pandemic period were interrupted; to clarify the steps such...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 669.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the case of a child (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism, a global speech delay and a developmental delay by a psychiatrist who advises early intervention and access to a range of therapies; if he is aware that parents are being told that there is a five-year waiting list for these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 735.To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify if the HSE owns the land at a location (details supplied); if there are any future plans for the land when the hospital is fully built; if so, what it may be used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24919/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [23998/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am delighted to have the opportunity to directly ask the Minister about the domestic violence strategy following on from the Women's Aid report yesterday. Only two weeks ago, a report that was commissioned through the work of Councillor Hazel de Nortúin in Cherry Orchard was published on the domestic violence strategy for that area. The place was packed and there was a huge amount of...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: We will be opposing this proposal, although not for similar reasons to any mentioned in the House today. I reject the idea that this is all about our sovereignty. I want to start from the point of view of looking at why we have this pact in the first place. It has been said repeatedly by backbenchers on the Government side that we need a fair, firm, efficient and enforced process for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the PSEHRD assessment his Department has undertaken regarding reported difficulties by Travellers to open housing applications and retain open application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26399/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Traveller Accommodation (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to include an assessment on difficulties Travellers experience in accessing and retaining open housing applications in the new NTRIS currently being considered; if he will acknowledge that this is an outstanding issue in the current NTRIS since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: I wish the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, good luck in his campaign for the leadership of the Green Party. I will start by referring to the Bill digest the Library and Research Service gave us on this legislation, which is very useful. It refers to the Childminding in Ireland survey results 2024, which were published on 10 June. This is an annual survey of childminders. The report states...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (20 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to protect a heritage site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26593/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am aware we are running out of time in this Dáil term but, given the seriousness of what has happened in the context of violence against women and the outcome of Natasha's case, we have to find time to debate this issue. Tomorrow, we have six and a half hours dedicated in the afternoon to various Bill. Tomorrow also, luckily for him more than luckily for us, the judge in the case...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----occasion. Nor will it be the last time that many justices will be involved.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am aware the Ceann Comhairle is obliged to shout at me-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----but I am looking for a debate on the issue. The constraint will be lifted-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----by tomorrow when the individual is retired.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: There are four days in between. Things happen.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach has not commented on whether he agrees to a debate on the Natasha O'Brien outcome and all of its implications relating to against women in this country. It is imperative that we have such a debate before the summer. Whatever rules might be imposed as to what we can or cannot say about judges, we need that debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: Yes, please. There are six and a half hours tomorrow.