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Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was very quick.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is grossly unfair. If the Acting Chairman was not going to bother allowing me to speak, he should have said so at the outset.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I would-----

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Acting Chairman is not a gift horse but he is a very bad Chairman.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It was out of order not to let me speak.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is unbelievable - can my microphone be switched on please - that, having just discussed a release free of charge of in the biggest robbery in history, and in a country with almost 200,000 empty properties and rents having soared by 66% since 2011, the Dáil voted against a measure that would put a stop to this. Last Saturday, I stood on the Ballyfermot Road to prevent a woman and her...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State should check with the people who were homeless last night.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State should stop exaggerating.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Wallace stated that having tenants is a mug's game, but it is sometimes the same in the context of HAP. Someone joins HAP and, after a year, the landlord issues him or her a notice to quit in order to sell the property, mar dhea. Our Bill would have stopped such properties being sold except in exceptional circumstances. This is happening on a large scale because landlords can make...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Than Fairview Park.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of house building projects and the number of units involved in those projects that are in the process of being built or at the planning stage under the control of local authorities and that will deliver local authority owned and run social housing in the next period; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It not agreed. On No. 4a, the terms of reference for dealing with the eighth amendment of the Constitution, the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, as will the Chief Whip, there was quite a debate about this at the Business Committee and our representative, Deputy Boyd Barrett, indicated that we disagreed with the disallowing of substitution on this committee and sought a debate on it. We would...

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Both. One final point, there should be room for us to make amendments if necessary. If we are going to have a debate on it, we should be allowed to amend the proposed amendment to the Standing Orders because all those things will apply.

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am simply asking that we have a debate on this and that there is room to put amendments. Having this without debate is completely unfair.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his efforts to have a person (details supplied) released from prison in Cairo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Ireland's trading relationship with Israel in view of the ongoing abuses of human rights with regard to the Palestinian population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25612/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a primary certificate by the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal, in view of the finding of the Office of the Ombudsman that the scheme as currently framed is overly rigid and inflexible and may be causing inequity. [25389/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 268. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, when calculating the average contributions of persons for accessing their contributory pension, there is a provision to include contributions made for the years spent working in Britain or another EU member state; if these years are included in the final calculation when deciding the reckonable amount paid and credited contribution; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 376. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 213 and 214 of 23 March 2017, the grants provided by Údarás na Gaeltachta to client companies that are among the Succeed in Ireland initiative companies credited with providing verified jobs; and the amount provided for all companies that are in this scheme. [25281/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the replacement of a person (details supplied) who deals with rare eye disorders in children. [25323/17]