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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (16 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 1738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Travellers who have been asked to move by a local authority from their accommodation due to fire safety concerns in 2016 and 2017. [55106/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will take measures to reverse the discrimination facing women whoraised families before 1994 when their contributory pension entitlements are calculated; the steps she is taking to address the losses suffered by pensioners as a result of the changing of the bands for the contributory pension in 2013; and if she will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am asking the Minister the same question as the previous one but in a different manner and I would like the Minister to take a slightly different emphasis from the one she took with respect to the question of discrimination against women in this regard. Although these band changes affect both men and women, there are particular measures of discrimination affecting women who raised their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I accept the Minister will not think of this in the same way that I do but in so far as we have our gender in common, on a daily basis we are faced with a barrage of elements of discrimination in this society, the latest being the revisiting of the debacle that Joanne Hayes faced in 1984 because of the Kerry babies issue. The question that jumps out is this: why it is recognised that women...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: -----where the rich list shows that the top ten earners in this country accumulated €2 billion last year and look at the other end of the scale.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can we do something about that anomaly?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I appreciate the Minister's positive responses, but they will not be welcomed if she is saying to pensioners that they will have to wait until 2020 and that the rates will only be adjusted from that year onwards. There are very angry people, particularly women, who are saying this issue must be sorted out now and payments backdated. They will not put up with the loss of €1,500 to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister's colleagues do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is only one woman and better off without it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: It will help to make up the minds of others though.

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the opportunity to address the motion and talk about our amendment. I welcome all the workers to the House. It is only because of their determination to take some action that we are discussing this today. Standing up for oneself is crucial in this day and age and it is fundamental to getting change. Workers have been left behind to a huge degree in this so-called recovery....

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I went out to show my solidarity with the protesters outside. I came from my office in Agriculture House down to Leinster House. One would swear to God there was a revolution happening outside the gates. There are barricades, which must have cost a fortune, across the laneway that leads to the back of Dawson Street and over to the other side of Kildare Street.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: There are big metal barriers outside Buswells Hotel and it is impossible to move in and out. Only that I am a Deputy and the gardaí recognised me, I would not have been able to move. Why is there such paranoia about this subject and women? Why is society so terrified to allow women to have a voice on an issue that has everything to do with their bodies? The vast majority of people...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have faced sanctions and deductions from their social welfare payments as a result of information provided by Jobpath providers; the criteria for such penalties; the right persons have to appeal such deductions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the attempt by a company (details supplied) to unilaterally alter its workers' defined benefit pension scheme; if proposed legislation to protect such schemes will be forthcoming in order to cease such attempts by employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (18 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and supports in place to inform and assist terminally ill persons to obtain an MCE1 form for a medical card in order that they can avail of the medical card guaranteed to terminally ill persons. [2403/18]

Reception Conditions Directive: Motion (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: The 2013/33EU directive seeks to guarantee a dignified standard of living for asylum seekers in the EU and to ensure that their human rights are respected. We now have an extraordinary situation where we are guaranteeing the human rights of asylum seekers, but in the interim - we are not sure how long that will be - they will be barred from working in care work, as health professionals, in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Traveller Culture (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of funding and future plans her Department has to fund specific projects in arts and heritage for the Traveller community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3079/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 137. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if military equipment developed or procured as part a joint initiative between Ireland and other countries under PESCO will only be used under UN mandate. [2933/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of lives saved in the Mediterranean Sea during each of the Irish naval missions in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [2934/18]