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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Expenditure (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the payments made by Enterprise Ireland under the headings of the beef fund, ESS, the community enterprise centre scheme and the community enterprise initiative scheme in each of the years 2010 to 2016. [25277/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies Expenditure (30 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 213 and 214 of 23 March 2017, the amount in grants provided by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to client companies that are among the Succeed in Ireland initiative companies credited with providing verified jobs; the amount provided for all companies that are in this scheme. [25281/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: In his report, the retired judge, Mr. Justice McMahon, described those living in direct provision as dehumanised and depressed. He said these people were like ghosts. I am sure these people who are like ghosts celebrated when they heard the outcome of the Supreme Court. Can the Minister imagine sitting around, in many cases for five or six years but in some cases for ten, 11 or 12 years,...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I believe, rather, that the Department will try to fast-track asylum seekers out of the system in order to get over the constitutional issue.

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State's reply confirms my suspicions. What he has said is that those who are granted permission to stay have an automatic right to work. What about those who are waiting for permission to stay? Even if they have been here for only nine months, with every hungry belly there is a pair of hands and often a very good brain. Many of the people concerned are highly educated and...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: How will it have an impact?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: They Deputy should stick to the Bill.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: We should ask how big are the profits.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: What about the red flag?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Despite the tax breaks.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Give them tax breaks and they will come.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: He did not personalise it.

Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Like the other speakers, I welcome the Bill and I congratulate the Labour Party and the Minister. We were completely at odds with the Minister on the last Bill, which related to the bogus tax avoiders of the multinational companies and the mechanisms being provided for them in that Bill. However, we are on the same page with this Bill. Perhaps the Labour Party had a better friend in Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund Deficit (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the write off by his Department of moneys owed by employers under the redundancy and insolvency schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the report on the contributory pension scheme will be ready; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/17]

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: To back up what has been said already, I believe the investigation and the widening of the terms of reference have to take more of a turn of an investigation of criminal proportions. I previously read into the Dáil record and will read again what I believe illustrates in horrible terms the attitude of the church of the day to the mother and baby homes and to small children who were born...

Report on Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Motion (1 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I accept completely and totally the Minister of State's bona fides and genuine approach to the question of Traveller ethnicity. It was a momentous evening when we celebrated the recognition of Traveller ethnicity. I remember spending most of my time out at the gate trying to get more Travellers in. We were squashing them into the Gallery and, unfortunately, could not find enough space for...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat a Cheann Comhairle. Beidh an Teachta Mick Barry ag úsáid leath den am atá liomsa. Ba mhaith liom an Taoiseach a mholadh mar gheall ar an iarracht a bhfuil á dheanamh aige an teanga a labhairt sa Dáil. Má choimeádann sé leis an iarracht sin, b'fhéidir go dtabharfaidh sé cic sa tóin, mar a deirtear, don Dáil go...

Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to film companies availing of section 481 relief that are recruiting workers as trainees on film sets but providing no training to these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27565/17]

Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has the Minister's attention been drawn to film companies availing of the section 481 relief of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997? These companies are recruiting workers as trainees on film sets but are providing no training to the workers.