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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will be amended to provide protection for persons facing attacks on their defined benefit schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46812/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Wage Introduction (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to move to a policy of a living wage to ensure work pays for all those employed in view of the recent report on the prevalence of minimum wage rates among women, the young and migrant workers. [46811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that have availed of the section 481 tax scheme for the film industry since 2010; and the number of persons employed by those companies availing of this scheme. [46748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Correspondence (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 593. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the communications and meetings she and her Department have had in 2017 with the owners of a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46425/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 605. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the requirements regarding trainee recruitment under section 481 are enforced; the way in which the number of trainees per production are recorded; and the number of trainees hired under this scheme since 2010. [46749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 798. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure there will be no changes to the definition of temporary absence of a pharmacist in view of the fact that some proposed changes could have dramatic effects on the working arrangements of pharmaceutical assistants who have experience and skill at their jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46756/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Regulations (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of funding currently being provided to aid the remedial work at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Regulations (7 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 1343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the replacement of directly employed workers involved in the work currently taking place at a location (details supplied) and their replacement with bogus self-employed workers under RCT arrangements; if the attention of other Departments was drawn to these arrangements before funding the...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: What name?

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will be short. As others, I want to use the opportunity to congratulate the people who stood shoulder to shoulder on the streets of their estates to stop water meters being installed. Many were not engaged in any of that activity, including many of the people in the House and the Minister. The Minister must realise it was quite a sacrifice for people to get up at 5 or 5.30 in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I refer the Minister to the Taoiseach's comments yesterday. The Taoiseach is on a salary of over €180,000 and he supports the chief executive of Irish Rail, who gets over €211,000 per year. He told the Dáil the rail workers' demands are unaffordable. These demands equate to a pay rise of 3.75% after ten years of pay freezes, two years of pay cuts, increased productivity...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the talks, but I caution that the bus workers in Bus Éireann who went into talks settled with a big stick over their heads. They understood that if they did not accept the settlement the Minister would have made the company insolvent. The Minister should not allow that happen again, because the workers in Bus Éireann are suffering under the threat of insolvency. Their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Crohn's disease is not covered under the long-term illness scheme; and the steps he is taking to address same. [47195/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman. I want to make a point of order. The Chairman said at the beginning that we have two letters from people who have declined to appear as witnesses having been invited and that those letters will be published and available on the website. I believe that is sufficient instead of the Chairman being obliged to read a four and a half page reply into the record of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Maybe it is a nicer place to live.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: The statistics given by Dr. Sedgh were very useful. They included the statistic that the majority of abortions are requested by married women, that more than half of women are between 20 and 29 years old, that most women who have abortions have at least one other child and that most abortions happen by the ninth week. These are very important scientific statistics that show that there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: What category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will definitely read the studies of infanticide. It was amazing to compare the lives of women and what it was like to live in Ireland with an unwanted pregnancy before the 1967 Act with what it was like afterwards. Dr. McCarthy rightly referred in his presentation to the 1967 Act as the Irish abortion Act. Without it, we would never have had abortions in this country. It was illustrated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Are doctors obliged to do this work?