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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: At the end of the week an announcement will be made by NASRA, which is a branch of the PNA, on the future days of action it will be taking and that will include a two-day continuous strike. Without the Government wishing to give itself more grief on the question of the health service, this dispute could be ended simply and without costing anyone a penny, except for the paramedics and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: Not true. It has at least 500 members.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is including agency staff in the statistics and that distorts the truth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: -----about what he is saying, but we all know he is not. He will be defending his position on the Apple tax rather than defending our front-line services.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is all sitting in an escrow account.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: Why did the Government not decide? Why did it not take the money?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: Plus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach will pay the nurses then. Good on him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: If I am a populist with nurses and a population that relies on them, I am proud to be so. The Taoiseach must feel ashamed to be a populist as he sits with the elite in Davos and defends the fact he is not taking the €13 billion of Apple tax. How popular is that? It is popular with multinational corporations that do not pay their taxes and with bankers but it is certainly not popular...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: I think the Taoiseach is out of kilter with the rest of the country but that is not unusual. There is massive support for the nurses and if they have to go on picket duty the length and breadth of the country tomorrow, they will be joined by other groups of workers, by members of their community and by hundreds of people who will be beeping horns and showing them support because they want...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget and spending of his Department in order to secure UN Security Council membership over the past period. [3772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Deer Culls (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the NPWS has investigated solutions other than culling to address the overpopulation of the Phoenix Park deer herd; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4268/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the management at the Coombe hospital followed the guidelines in the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 for a diagnosis and subsequent treatment of a fatal foetal abnormality or life threatening condition in the case recently highlighted; and if matters (details supplied) will be clarified. [3818/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: I ask a simple question that I have been asking since last May about CervicalCheck. I asked Mr. Tony O'Brien, formerly of the HSE, who committed to giving me the answer to it. I asked the Minister for Health about the matter twice and he committed to giving me the answer to it. I also asked the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, when he replaced the Tánaiste today and he,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: You do have it. The Cabinet has it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: Dr. Scally diverted away from it.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which Ireland's climate goals and ambition to be a world leader on climate change can be helped by potential approval for drilling off the coast for oil or gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3307/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating Administration (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the funding available for retrofitting of homes in order to reduce the energy usage needed in the housing stock thus reducing CO2 emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3311/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the decision on the awarding of the national broadband plan will be decided; the estimated cost of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (24 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 as a matter of urgency in view of the recent case in which a woman was denied a termination at 14 weeks despite presenting with a foetus suffering from a severe abnormality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3577/19]