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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: All members have been sent the submission from the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland that contains many photographs of the interiors of direct provision centres. As soon as I saw how cramped and crowded and on top of each other people were, it reminded me of playing house as a kid, with bricks and stones and lumps of planks, and of pushing everything together so we could all lie down...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The point I want to make is that if it is not their job to query that advice, it is their job to look after the occupants of direct provision. I am of the view that those two things are contradictory. The Minister recently stated on radio that they are in his care and if anyone works for the Minister, surely their care should matter to those who look after them. On 12...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The letter stated there is clear evidence that some residents are not following the public health recommendations and because social distancing is not being followed by everybody, the lockdown has to be extended for 14 further days. That sounds like they are being blamed for their own plight. I repeat to the witnesses that these centres are totally inadequate for the purposes of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Did the committee write this and order it to be sent to the residents in Cahersiveen?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It stated that it was a notice to all residents of the Skellig Star accommodation centre.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The evidence shows everybody should be moved out of that direct provision centre and alternatives provided. That would be the solution to this horrendous mess and the inhumane conditions these people are being forced to live under, and God knows for how long more. None of us knows when this pandemic is going to subside or become a thing of history.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a study by a university, it is not a Trump response.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is a very important study by a university and the Minister should be familiar with it.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I will accept written answers, please.

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I will ask questions only of the Minister, Deputy Creed, because in the past I have found it a fruitless exercise to question the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. I want to address what I believe is the situation. I believe the Minister has failed utterly to take seriously any warnings from Deputies in the House, to investigate them or to enforce basic health and safety regulations in the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Will maternity leave be extended?

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The Minister can respond in writing because otherwise it will take up too much time. There is a legal aspect in the letter that Mandate sent her about a European Court of Justice case and I ask that she expand on that. The onus is still on KPMG.

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I want to return to the issue of the Debenhams workers. I have seen the correspondence between the Minister and Mandate, as I am sure many Members have. I will pick up on Mandate's last letter in which it notes that when the legislation was amended in 2007 no legislator sought to amend the particular aspects of the Act relating to the responsibility of the liquidator. It also refers a...

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: The Minister can comment on my commentary if she wants, but I just want the answer to the question.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Compensate.

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Who did not accept them or why were they not accepted? What was the reasoning?

Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Is mór an náire é don Rialtas seo gur theip air cúram leanaí a sholáthair dár n-oibrithe sláinte i lár na paindéime seo. The failure of the State the Government to provide basic childcare for our front-line workers, particularly nurses and doctors in the middle of this pandemic, is breathtaking. After eight weeks of spin and public relations...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers on the WSS whose earnings are below €205 and €350, respectively. [6156/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employers, registered for tax purposes as offshore, that have availed of the wage subsidy scheme; and the cost of the scheme in these cases. [5960/20]