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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: That is fair enough. I will wait.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yesterday the Taoiseach said it would not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: There is a more serious issue at stake here because from midnight tonight we go into level 5. The State needs to declare that the removal of stock from Debenhams is non-essential work that does not fall into the category of what is allowed to be taken on over the next six weeks. The only beneficiaries of the removal of this stock are KPMG itself, which may get enough money to be paid...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Answer my question, please.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: We will fully support this motion but I note that it is not the first motion of its kind that we have supported. This issue came up again and again in the term of the previous Dáil but nothing seems to have changed. I thank the Deputies who moved the motion and congratulate the postmasters. They have campaigned relentlessly on this issue. They have given a lot of thought and effort...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Can the Chairman clarify that answers to questions will be circulated to all the committee members, even if they are addressed to specific Deputies or Senators?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Both witnesses referred in their submissions to the words "have regard to". They both suggested that "must be consistent with" would be stronger language. There are 25 items in total which the Government must be consistent with or have regard to, whichever language ends up being adopted. I hope it is the stronger formulation. This effectively makes them all equal. Could they cancel each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witness.

Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Restoration to Order Paper (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil, shall be restored to the Order Paper at Second Stage.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is not true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is not true that they will disappear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Do not tell lies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: He needs to retract his statement that the records will disappear. They will not disappear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Do not seal the records.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is not the right thing.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: There is an ugly and frenzied rush to push through legislation on the mother and baby homes. Imagine the optics of this for the hundreds and thousands of victims and their families that legislation is to be amended by Members of this House before 2 o'clock tomorrow when it has not even passed through the Seanad. This is utterly disrespectful to the Senators. The Tánaiste ticked me off...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: The question was why is it being rushed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available from her Department to a primary school student whose lone parent is recently blind and unable to ensure her child safely reaches school each morning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances under which a school should close as a result of staff testing positive for Covid 19; if her Department has been notified by principals of the numbers of confirmed positive cases among teachers in their school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30250/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to pay a Christmas bonus to recipients of social protection payments in 2020; and the date on which this will happen. [30444/20]