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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact the decision of Irish Water, which seeks to end the service level agreement with local authorities, will have on the future of the company and on workers currently delivering services under that agreement. [44465/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ending of the service level agreement between Irish Water and local authorities has implications for retaining water services in public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44466/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Deputy always does this.

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the present system of tax relief that operates in the film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40724/17]

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I have already asked this question of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation but I have never been able to get a full answer. I want to pre-empt the question by saying I fully support the arts industry and the attempt to increase the production of film and create jobs. However, there is a problem with what is known as...

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask about oversight of this tax break. Surely if the State is to dispense such a generous scheme, while I agree with it dispensing generous schemes to encourage the arts and the film industry, should the State not have some oversight of how the scheme is administered? I have evidence that shows widespread abuse of this scheme, and I am sure other Deputies also have such evidence...

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: That all sounds very good but the reality is that some €7 billion has been given to the industry in the past 15 years in tax breaks, which is very generous. Although I do not disagree with that if it is performing the function it set out to perform, which is to give training and to nurture homegrown talent instead of abusing workers' rights, then it is absolutely the right thing to...

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The Minister will get used to me eventually.

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps the Minister would email the lists to me.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 307. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 10 October 2017, if the formal request was to meet officials or him; if it was made before the appointment to the board of the SEAI; and if the request was in his capacity as a member of the SEAI or in another capacity. [44678/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that asylum seekers with diagnosed mental illnesses are being or are about to be deported from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45205/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the number of persons unsuccessful in their asylum applications and are to be deported to countries in which they may not receive adequate care and medication for severe diagnosed mental illnesses and life threatening physical illnesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process that sees persons with deportation orders who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and life-threatening physical illnesses being evicted from and invited to leave direct provision centres and that are therefore at great risk of becoming homeless. [45206/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I also intend to challenge the decision to rule the amendment out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: We intend to take the same course of action in the case of this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: We will challenge the decision to rule the amendments out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Can I bring it forward again?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I wish to speak to amendment No. 14, which calls for the deletion of the section. I support what has already been said by some of the other members. The problem is that we are defining wastage as normal household use where there are more people living in the house. That strikes me as the essence of what is being said. If one calculates per household rather than per person the more people...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 14:In page 8, to delete lines 22 to 30.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 18:In page 9, to delete lines 1 to 26.