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Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Some are coming from Deputies like me.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing my time with Deputy Mick Barry. If I ask questions, I am happy to have them answered in writing if I run out of time. I cannot believe the answer that Deputy Humphreys has just given to Deputy Catherine Murphy. It is outrageous. The Minister patronised her for a good section of the time by telling her that this document I am holding tells a person how to sneeze, how to...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: -----and they are very different. I want to tell the Minister why they are different. She should read the article in today's edition of The Guardianabout workers in the meat factories. I hope it pulls the strings of the Minister's heart, because it pulls mine when one listens to those workers talking about the experience they have been through. At least one worker has died and hundreds...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I noticed but I did not say anything.

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry and I will make a statement within which there will be a few questions the answers to which I am happy to take in writing. We have been raising the question of the treatment of residents in direct provision for a month now and I want to repeat that I believe this Government has failed miserably to protect the rights of our most vulnerable during this...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: Somebody in the Minister's Department decided to send applicants from overcrowded conditions to remote hotels, some of them still overcrowded, where they could not socially isolate and where they share bathrooms and shower facilities, communal kitchen and shared meals. Somebody thought it was okay to pack a bus with 120 residents and send them down to Kerry from a centre in Dublin when the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Communications (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials have been lobbied or received a representation from the Chinese Embassy in relation to the use of the Convention Centre in Dublin by a group (details supplied); and the reason for the refusal of the centre to host the show. [4161/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons that had previously a history of having purchased a home but that have since relinquished a holding in the property with no financial gain will be considered for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4165/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the documents that are uniquely required for the category of short-stay spousal visa in circumstances in which an Irish citizen and his or her spouse are making a visa application online; the financial amount considered sufficient for the applicant and the person concerned or a sponsor (details supplied) to have at the time...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories and companies that will conduct the new HPV testing for cervical cancer screening; if more than one company is involved; the expected percentage of the overall testing to be done by each laboratory concerned; the location of the laboratories and institutions concerned; his plans to repatriate the service fully here; and the criteria and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 998. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the resourcing of the office of the Just Transition Commissioner and team in terms of finance, budget and staffing; his views on whether the role which is part-time should be full-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4861/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: I was quite amazed earlier when the Minster said that it is not the norm to look after private nursing homes or to provide them with PPE. My thought immediately was that I do not think it is the norm also to have 80% of nursing homes in private hands. That statement is a bit glib, to be quite honest, as is the whole plan and roadmap to come out of the lockdown as it relates to our senior...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: Last week when we discussed the nursing homes the Minister reassured me that citizens in nursing homes were not being treated differently from other citizens. I am not yet reassured and I remain unreassured, if that is the right term. According to the latest figures from the NPHET, there have been nearly 600 deaths in nursing homes. I noted in today's debate that the Taoiseach stated there...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: We are seven weeks into the crisis now.

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: What about my second question?

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: I asked if the Minister would restrict companies from liquidating during the period of the crisis?

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yes, and I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. We should acknowledge that tomorrow is May Day, International Workers' Day, and to that end we have taken an initiative in our group to have this building, Dublin City Hall and several other town halls across the country lit up in red in honour of our front-line workers and all other workers. Never has it been more unequivocally obvious...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: They have not done it.

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: Cuirim fáilte roimh na hathruithe ón tseachtain seo caite ó thaobh ár dtithe altranais agus na hoibreacha ann. Dá mbeadh an réimeas seo againn ó thús, d’fhéadfaí a lán saolta a shábháil. All of our sympathy and solidarity goes to those who have lost lives, those who are ill and the families who are facing the...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: I was struck this morning while listening to the eloquence of the Taoiseach when he talked about the 445 people who, unfortunately, have lost their lives. He said they were not only statistics but that they were loved and cared for. I totally agree and our sympathy goes out to them, their families, their loved ones and friends. However, I think there is a gap between the words and the...