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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (15 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will implement the Government’s commitment to introducing an international protection child payment to children living in direct provision; to outline a timeframe for when this will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41299/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 666. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide dialysis treatment in Wicklow soon to accommodate people from the areas of Wicklow and Wexford who have to travel to access treatment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that medical card holders are regularly being charged for sick notes and other letters that were once provided free of charge by GPs; his views on this practice; if he plans to engage with GPs to ensure that those with medical cards are provided with doctor's letters without cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41461/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to support the call by Education Equality for the Government to compel schools to confine religious faith formation and worship to a period outside core school hours, in order to uphold families’ human and constitutional rights to freedom of religion and belief, and to vindicate the rights of teachers who do not wish to...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 178(1). It is with honour, on behalf of the retired workers who have campaigned for more than a decade now and are in the Gallery today, that I move this. I am delighted to see the Bill move to Committee Stage. I thank the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that Department officials engaged with the Teachers Union of Ireland at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on aligning the Youthreach programme with the second level school calendar year at their last discussion at the WRC in early June 2024; if there will be an outcome to the discussions within the lifetime of the current...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (23 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the planned legislation to preserve privately held records relating to Ireland’s institutional past will include financial records so that important information about money made from forced labour or the fees demanded from families of unjustly incarcerated women and children, or the forced export of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (24 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider allowing the children of landlords registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) to claim the rent tax credit; if he will specifically refer to a case (details supplied); if he will explain the rationale for excluding this cohort; to indicate if there are plans to include this group in the future, or offer an exemption if the...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: I really appreciate that. A few people did not take their slots so we underestimated the time. This is probably the last time I will speak in the Dáil and I appreciate being allowed to speak on this topic. I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion and the carers' association and all the carers out there who do the job they do. It is a job I did for two years when my mother was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: Tá rud amháin cinnte domsa inniu agus is é sin gurb é seo mo lá deireanach i nDáil Éireann. Ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuil mé an-bhuíoch de gach duine a thug cabhair agus tacaíocht dom trína blianta. Tá mé an-dóchasach go mbeidh Councillor Hazel de Nortúin ina suí anseo tar éis an olltoghcháin. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: There is €25 billion of a surplus in the economy, with 140,000 people on the housing list, 14,000 to 15,000 people homeless and rising, 1 million people on waiting lists for health care and 700,000 people living below the poverty line. We can throw figures across the floor at each other but these are facts that the Tánaiste does not address. As a left-wing TD and a socialist, I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: So am I. I am the daughter of a busman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: So what?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am the daughter of a busman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: So was my da.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: I was the first to do the leaving certificate in my family.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: But do not address the inequality. The Tánaiste can talk all he likes about his childhood but he has not addressed the inequality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: God help us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: There are 110,000 children with special needs that are not being met.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: Not the inequality. Do not debate the inequality.