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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (6 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: 157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the families of 320 victims reviewed under the independent review mechanism that commenced in July 2014 will receive their reports prepared by council in view of a promise of transparency in his Department. [52237/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: I congratulate the Chairman on the great job she has done in chairing the committee. It has not been an easy job. It is important also to thank all of the experts and others who have presented to the committee. Their strength and integrity took us all by surprise. Most of us came here thinking we had heard and knew it all, but we now know a great deal more following the honest testimonies...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Seriously questioning them.

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure no more deaths occur among homeless people and rough sleepers; and his plans to re-open a location (details supplied) or similar to ensure there are no more fatalities during the winter of 2017. [52274/17]

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister outline his plans to ensure that no more deaths occur among homeless people and rough sleepers? Will he also outline plans to re-open locations similar to Apollo House that could ensure there are no more fatalities in any city throughout the rest of the winter?

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: There is a weather warning for snow throughout the country today. This morning, I walked in Le Fanu Park in Ballyfermot, as I always do, and the Brent geese were back. There were not enough of them, which is probably a sign of climate change, something we will discuss later, but clearly the cold snap is on the way. The woman to whose family the Minister has given his condolences, and I...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: There was a recent attempt by the Government, and particularly the Taoiseach, to try to normalise this, or politically normalise it, and say it happens everywhere so it is not a big deal. It is a big deal, and it is an even bigger deal when we have organisations such as the Peter McVerry Trust and Inner City Helping Homeless and political parties urging the Government to declare a housing...

Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister answer the question? Does he consider that we have a housing emergency?

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has the Government sought the advice?

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputies Boyd Barrett, Ó Snodaigh, Healy and Clare Daly - I apologise if I have omitted anybody - because without the voice of the Opposition demanding a debate on this and continually raising it this week both at the Business Committee and on the floor of the House, we would not be having this debate. It was clear that the Government did not want to have a discussion and that...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: This is my third time to speak in the Dáil today. I was thinking that although the issues I speak to seem unconnected, they are not. These connected themes are homelessness, the attempt to bring us into a European army and the pay and pensions Bill before us. I say these are connected because this Government is weaving its own intricate web, connected by various threads. The Minister...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is the same thing.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Whether they agree or not.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: From listening to the Minister's response to what we have said here that there has to be an incentive to accept an agreement, it is quite possible that he was never in a trade union. I think he is an accountant, so that is quite possible. I will tell him how it works. A deal is negotiated between a union and bosses. The deal is then put to a person who votes on it. That person can accept...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: It does not look like it.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: Genuinely - I sound like Miriam O'Callaghan - I am very disappointed that we are having this debate on a night like this with so few Deputies to participate. I will make a proposal about that towards the end. I say that because I think it is unfortunate, as Deputy Ryan said, that we are having this discussion before the publication of the report and it is unfortunate that it is parked in...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: France and Costa Rica are attempting to do the same. If the three of us managed to ban further extraction of fossil fuels, it would make a great contribution. The science tells us that 80% of the already recognised and known fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground if we are to tackle climate change. To go digging for more would be an absolute catastrophe and would tie us in for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce measures to deal with the numbers of vacant homes here; when he will have accurate figures for same; and if extra funding will be made available for local authorities and approved housing bodies to acquire or compulsory purchase such units. [52275/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (7 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 301 of 29 November 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the staff of most section 39 organisations had the same cuts imposed on them as their colleagues in the HSE; if he has made provision for increased funding for section 39 organisations in order to ensure the restoration of workers' pay and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that a drug (details supplied) prescribed to women during pregnancy in both New Zealand and Britain has been linked to adverse heath issues and outcomes; if this drug is or was available to women here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52613/17]