Results 1,961-1,980 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Permanent Structured Co-operation (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the implications of Ireland’s recent endorsement of PESCO with its binding commitment to yearly increases in defence spending for wider international work on disarmament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2956/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a report into the circumstances surrounding the transfer of a garda to County Donegal following the arrest of an employee of the Department of the Taoiseach will be commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the public services card was first introduced. [2954/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the safe 2 process was introduced; and when the first procedures under safe 2 took place. [2955/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 2,245 social houses built in 2017 that were delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies, rapid build by regeneration and via Part V respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V homes delivered in 2017 bought by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the number leased by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the average cost per unit of these units that were leased by local authority; the length of the leases of those bought; the average monthly rent;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost and size of the 2,266 acquisitions for social housing in 2017, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2966/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time of the leases for the 798 houses leased for social housing in 2017; the unit cost of these leases per month, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 910 RAS contracts signed in 2017 that were renewed contracts and new contracts, respectively, for existing RAS tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2968/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 17,916 HAP tenancies signed in 2017 that are still in existence and the number broken by landlords, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all voids brought back into use in 2017; the length of time the homes were void by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2970/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Meeting Ireland’s Targets under the 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the witnesses. It is a no-brainer that we should be backing these initiatives. I am very interested in the deep retrofitting of homes. The quality of some housing in this country is very poor owing to shoddy building in the past. Houses in many of the old council estates require deep retrofitting and this should be strongly recommended in the committee's report not only because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Meeting Ireland’s Targets under the 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: Is that 37% of new builds?

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will re-examine operations by the Defence Forces which support or interact with Libyan military or coastguard forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3370/18]

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I seek an update from the Minister of State on what interaction, if any, the Defence Forces have, directly or indirectly, with the Libyan authorities, specifically the Libyan coast guard. I have asked many times what the European Union programme that provides funding to Libya to hold refugees within its borders is doing to the large number of human beings who are fleeing desperate...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: Budgets from this country and across Europe are being used to fund a regime that has been described as holding migrants in militia camps in the most dreadful conditions. As stated previously, we are witnessing the return of slavery, with people being bought and sold at markets in Libya. These are human beings who are desperately fleeing war and poverty in other countries. The Department...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: While I am proud of the Naval Service and its role in rescuing tens of thousands of people, it is also helping to train the Libyan coast guard, which picks up migrants and returns them to Libya. Does the Minister of State understand my point? I am not arguing that the Naval Service hands over migrants directly to the Libyan authorities but that we are providing training and facilitating the...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: We could rescue them.

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I would be glad to show Deputy Healy-Rae where the door is.

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: Last November, the three teacher unions, namely, the INTO, TUI and ASTI, made a detailed submission to the Public Service Pay Commission on the emerging crisis in teaching. There has been a sharp fall in the number of applications to teacher education courses, an increase in emigration among recently qualified teachers and difficulties in filling posts and employing substitute teachers. The...