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Topical Issue Debate: Television Licence Fee Collection (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister of State for clarifying the bit about what will happen in the mean time but the plan as clearly stated in the report is to give the job of collecting the TV licence fee to Revenue. I further point out that the report is also ambivalent about whether it will give RTÉ the right to collect re-transmission fees from the likes of Sky and Virgin, whose profits I have just...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Have I?

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I intend to ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, a lot of questions and while I do not wish to be insulting, I must leave the Chamber after asking them. I will listen back to the Minister's answers tomorrow. There are some small but good measures in the Bill, as mentioned by the previous speaker, such as the extension of social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an application for additional funding by a charity (details supplied) was denied despite the need for two additional full-time positions along with every-day costs for the charity to function. [50137/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and recognition of children with dyspraxia and DCD with the new allocation model of SNA teachers and a guarantee that these children will not be at a loss of support [50138/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the NRA instructing repossession of property to recoup unpaid toll fees. [49867/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons in each of the past ten years who have had their cars or other property taken by sheriffs on foot of unpaid toll fees. [49868/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal powers under which repossessions for unpaid toll fees occur. [49869/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by tolls in each of the past ten years; the person or body that collects these tolls; and the purpose for which this revenue is used. [49870/17]

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Thanks be to God.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is important to bear in mind the background to these proposals. In order to bail out banks and developers, the State initiated a wave of cuts to public services and waged an unremitting war on public sector workers. Overnight, following the bank bailout and the advent of the troika, the narrative became that the great public enemies were the teacher, the nurse, the firefighter and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the situation of heath care workers that work for section 39 organisations and are not directly paid by the HSE and therefore will not be paid increases to be paid to workers in HSE employment; and if there is a provision for funding for section 39 organisations to be increased to allow for pro rata increases for staff. [50857/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I have a separate question on the method of voting. Was it originally agreed that a vote would be taken at the end of each module? I am not challenging this, it is just that I want to understand the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: If there are members who cannot be here to vote next week, would it not be better to vote on the substantive question, namely, whether to have a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, before next week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Yes. I am proposing that option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I propose voting on just one issue, namely, whether to hold a referendum on repeal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: To clarify, and this is as much for people watching and those in the Gallery as it is for myself. What we are saying now is that we would not be voting until 13 December, then the report would be drafted and we would sign off on it on 20 December. Is that the case? That is pushing it right to the very limit. If we take the votes on 13 December, then we cannot complete the report until...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: By 14 December possibly. Can I just be clear that I agree with a short succinct but comprehensive report that will include all of the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly, and that there will be votes on all of that and nothing will be left out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Okay, that is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: The report will be ready by 14 December then after we vote on 13 December? I know we are going to discuss that tomorrow