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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: His answer to that parliamentary question was that if an arrangement constitutes bogus self-employment and results in reduced income tax and social insurance contributions, it is something neither he nor the Minister for Finance would be prepared to allow to continue. That was two years ago and two years is quite a long time. I say that publicly because I want to draw the attention of the...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the 221 results and the laboratories from whence they came, can the Minister give me some idea when we will get the answer to that question? Is it coming from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists or in some other way?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister give us the answers to the questions before it is published or will its publication be our answer?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the repatriation of the service to Ireland, is it the Minister's intention to reopen on a significant scale training courses in universities and institutes of technology to train clinical laboratory technicians to meet what we hope will be a native-based service with full standards going forward?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister indicated that the tests from Ireland will now be read twice. Will we pay twice? If they are read twice, will we pay double?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister find that out?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I refer to whether the State will have to pay the laboratories time and again for certainty, to be sure to be sure.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: In the case of the Morrissey judgment, will the Minister confirm that the award made to her will not be affected by the appeal the State is making against the judgment? There seems to be some confusion in that regard between the Minister and the Taoiseach.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Minister the following question earlier but he might be able to answer it now. For women to find the tribunal adequate, attractive or suitable, will he give them an assurance that if they make an application to the tribunal, and they then go through chemotherapy or other forms of therapy and enter respite, they can re-enter a case to the tribunal if their cancer recurs?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It may be the same cancer, however.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is very important and I request that the assurance be given to women. The Minister may believe that it is a different case but if the same cancer occurs as a consequence of what they faced, it is not a different issue and they should be able to return to the tribunal. If the Minister cannot give that guarantee, will he agree with me there might be a lower uptake for the tribunal?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the women and their families for their courage and determination in the face of such adversity. I also acknowledge their representatives who have done some great work on this. When Dr. Scally last reported to the Dáil, he said that he supported the outsourcing of the CervicalCheck screening. Dr. Scally defended the standards and practices in the laboratories that he had...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Yes, boss.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: In the context of the debate, people will vividly remember Joe Duffy's series of programmes in April on the experiences of women in maternity hospitals. It received responses from many hundreds of women who contacted the show and had negative and often harrowing experiences of giving birth in Irish hospitals. It was one of the largest responses the "Liveline" show had ever had, with many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister for attending. As I usually do when we deal with this issue, I refer to the IPCC report. It is worth couching everything we do at the committee in the words of the report which stated that we need far-reaching, unprecedented and radical change. When the fanfare dies down, one has to look past the layers of green clothing that mask a business opportunity for industry,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: So does the Minister. That is his problem.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (13 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address matters (details supplied) relating to applications for licences. [24690/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I want to pick up on something the Taoiseach mentioned. He said he wanted climate action that does not hurt jobs, make people poorer or make things more severe for people. Bord na Móna workers are facing redundancy and replacement into other jobs. In the words of their union official, they are being treated abysmally because we are making a bags of the first challenge of just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Like the Bord na Móna workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: And treating workers abysmally.