Results 1-20 of 302 for long speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I raise the special leave with pay scheme for workers who are out sick with long Covid. Healthcare workers in particular have had long periods of illness from Covid, and a scheme was put in place in June 2022 to ensure they would get paid if they were out sick with long Covid. That is due to end on 30 June. Therefore, from 1 July, potentially hundreds of health workers who stepped up to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of specialist, multidisciplinary treatment and care for children with long-Covid; the reason there are currently no long-Covid clinics for children in Ireland, given those affected are being treated by general paediatricians and general practitioners without the necessary level of expertise to manage this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the financial and employment contributions that non-European Union students have made during long periods of study in this country; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many students would welcome the opportunity to obtain long-term residency stamp 4 visas in recognition of these contributions given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ..., the lease undertaking application of Island Expro, which discovered gas in 2007 during the Schull discovery, has been under consideration since 2011, which is seven years. Why is it taking so long? In the course of that seven years, will that company have tenancy or ownership of that section offshore, so that nobody else can go in, touch it, explore it or ask any questions. That case...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who needed hospital treatment as a result of contracting Covid-19; the measures he is taking to deal with the long-term effects on children form the virus specifically, the research and long-term studies of effects and numbers affected and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7962/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Another long-standing report we have been waiting for in this House is the review of the termination of pregnancy legislation. This welcome review has finally come through and it contains startling findings. However, I understand that the Business Committee has refused space for statements on this. The review will go before the Joint Committee on Health in three or four sessions, allegedly...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (28 Apr 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions under which a person receiving a jobseeker’s payment can be referred to a JobPath provider; if they must be deemed to be long-term unemployed; the definition used for long-term unemployed; if a person in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit can be referred to a JobPath provider; and if she will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: The point I am driving at is that my understanding is that there is a whole series of drugs given to children with epilepsy and there is no clear evidence of the long-term side effect of these drugs either. There is a concern about the long-term side effects of the use of CBD oil and THC, but on the other hand there are many drugs being administered that there are no clear outcomes-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1039. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the occupational therapy in the long-Covid clinic at St. James's Hospital is being discontinued in April 2022 (details supplied); if he will provide funding to keep occupational therapy in the clinic; if will he further invest in a nationwide network of multidisciplinary long-Covid clinics to ensure that Ireland has the capacity and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 14 September 2022, the way that the twin goals of sustainable communities and long term tenancies are advanced in the case of a tenant who has resided in a council home for over 30 years and who has recently married, yet now finds that they are barred and delayed from availing of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...ten years since the tragic and avoidable death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital having been denied a life-saving operation for an abortion. Everyone will acknowledge that we have come a long way in the last ten years and her death ignited a movement that saw an end to the misogynistic anti-choice laws in this country. However, we still have a way to go. Abortion services are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...to be those who are positive about the status quo. We therefore need to find a different tool to ascertain how the population in general feels about non-ethos based education. My own view for a long time and that of People Before Profit-Solidarity is in our Bill which is sitting in the waiting room for a long time for the Government to bring in a non-ethos based sex education and consent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ..., its silence on workers’ rights in this case is deafening. The Government simply replied to the union to tell it that it can take unfair dismissals case. We all know that that process will be long, uncertain and unlikely to mean reinstatement. I am asking the Taoiseach to commit to bringing in legislation that will protect union activists from dismissal where they organise in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...an excuse to bring penalties on those who are suffering job losses, such as those announced in Shannon and Cork in the past day or so? One figure suggests that only 9% of participants have secured long-term employment but research has shown that, as we saw in the committee, the scheme is often used in a patronising, cajoling, threatening and manipulative way and that many people identify...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Deportation Orders (10 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...of this Covid-19 crisis, because we do not want to lose valuable workers and people from our society and push them back to some place where they do not feel safe. That is a wider philosophical and long-term question, but it is important that we take it into account. If we are just relying on the conditions caused by the Covid-19 crisis for them to be allowed to remain, then this is still...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I understand that. I have not been here that long but I have been here long enough to know that we can vote on whether it moves past Second Stage and that we can vote on the amendments tomorrow. etc. However, the question that was put was that the Bill be read a Second Time and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle asked if that was agreed. I said "No" and that I was objecting to that. I believe that...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am under pressure after waiting for so long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (21 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: Why? Does the Minister think I am a long distance driver?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: How long is "temporary"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: Does that evidence also take into account the long-term effects of the drug or is Dr. Doherty concerned about that?