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Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was wondering if the Minister is going anywhere nice for St. Patrick's Day and if, when he is away, he will be doing some public expenditure exercises. Will he be thinking about the public sector worker who have been hurt very badly by the FEMPI legislation, and whether he will renew that legislation in June? After all, when we get back after the St. Patrick's Day break there are only...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Where is the Minister off to?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I think the Minister is a bit out on his own on this one because all of the other Ministers, including the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Education and Skills and the Minister for Health have declared there is no more financial emergency, that we are in recovery and that the money is there to be spent. The possible future leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Simon Coveney, in particular keeps...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: So the Minister still believes we are in a financial emergency and he will retain the FEMPI legislation.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I got the answer I wanted. The Minister will reinstate the FEMPI legislation.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Yesterday, Peter Mulryan stood in the High Court trying to establish what happened to his sister - was she trafficked or was she buried? As the same time, the Taoiseach's Minister, Deputy Noonan, stood outside the old Barringtons Hospital in Limerick welcoming the new addition to the Bon Secours empire, the biggest private hospital empire in this country. I argue that this empire was built...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: We can deal with that tonight.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Bon Secours hospitals are the biggest private health provider in this country. They have an accumulated profit of €74 million and have on their hands the bones of the dead children of Tuam. If we are serious about putting behind us the legacy of what happened in the mother and baby homes, the very least we should ask this order to do is disband and write itself out of the history...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Whatever the Taoiseach does, he should not answer my question. Will the Taoiseach call on the Bon Secours to reconsider its position?

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach did not answer my question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is why I am asking the Taoiseach questions.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: What is the point of this session? It is Leaders' Questions and we get no answers.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The fundamental question I asked is whether the Taoiseach will ask the Bon Secours order to reconsider its position in the country.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Will the Ceann Comhairle ask the Taoiseach to answer my question?

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: That was not my question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Nice one. The Taoiseach is politician of the year, managing not to answer a single question.

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Why does the Taoiseach not answer a Deputy's question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met. [10074/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Like everyone else, I heard the news this morning that 80 post offices are due to close. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, constantly says that the Government is fully committed to a policy that will see An Post remain a strong, viable company in a position to provide a high-quality postal service and maintain a national network of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: That would be illegal without permission from Irish Water.