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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 and 92 of 30 April 2024, if he is aware that the proposed draft childminding regulations represent a further bureaucratisation of a system that is already onerous for parents and service providers; if he is aware that childminders are reporting that these regulations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Commission. [21746/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent special meeting of the European Council. [20465/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I probably am not on the same types of hustings as the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Some 8% of workers in this country are on the minimum wage and they are the people I meet. The postponement of an increase for them is cruel and unnecessary. Instead of tackling the businesses by getting them to pay different rates, the Government is attacking workers' rights again. Almost a year ago we brought a Bill before the House to get rid of the discrimination against young workers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is what you are doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: This is spin. You are-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is because I am an authoritative-type person.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Reports in the media indicate - the Taoiseach can confirm this - that following the Cabinet meeting this morning, the Government intends to roll back labour market measures, including the further roll-out of a minimum wage to a median wage and the increase in sick leave, which is to be staggered until 2026 to bring the entitlement of sick leave for every worker up to ten days. I get it that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been forcibly displaced four times in Gaza after the building in which they lived was completely destroyed and whose parents and siblings in Ireland are desperate for the person to join them; if she and her Government colleagues will implement special measures...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It is the other way around. I am going to go first. Ladies first and all that jazz. I welcome the parents in the Gallery. We have been working with people around our constituencies on this issue. I welcome that the debate is happening. Like others, I want to be a conduit for their voices. I wish they could stand here instead of sitting up there and speak directly to the Government and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It is not working.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Government needs to do more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Government needs to do more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is going to take a long time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: So while they slaughter the Palestinians, we wait for them to live in harmony?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: If Palestinians are still alive; if they are not expelled or dead.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not want to have a conversation with him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Actions absolutely speak louder than words. I start by paying tribute to the very brave and committed students of Trinity College Dublin who, after five or six days of a sit-in, managed to get full boycott divestment from the Israeli state from the authorities in the university. This is a very hopeful sign in the midst of what is a desperate and hopeless situation as Israel moves to its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I have not denied that the Tánaiste has said a lot. He has said a lot diplomatically and legally and about humanitarian criticism on stopping the aid to UNRWA. He has said a lot. What I am asking is what he is going to do? The question of deed is at the heart of my argument. I was a young shop steward when the Dunnes Stores strike against apartheid happened. I knew Karen Gearon and...