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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify when schools can expect to receive the schedule of grant payments; if she is aware that some schools are struggling to cover regular outgoings currently and are awaiting grant payments to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47679/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he agrees that adult education tutors do the same work as their permanent colleagues in the Further Education and Training Sector and should therefore have the same terms and conditions; if he will clarify when his Department will award a contract that offers adult education tutors parity with their permanent co-workers to reflect the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a disability allowance, which was submitted at the end of June 2023; if she will consider that the applicant cannot get a GP appointment or avail of services until the application is approved, and will ensure that a decision is delivered at the earliest; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (26 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many of the 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021 were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47059/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (26 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many of the 11,698 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022 were registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland only (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason responsibility for the horse and greyhound racing industries transferred from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as provided for by Section 6(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 and Statutory Instrument No. 179 of 2010 - Horse and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (26 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the discrepancy in figures given by Rásaíocht Con Éireann in relation to the number of non-coursing greyhounds registered at microchipping stage on the RCETS whose year of birth was 2022 (details supplied), bearing in mind that under existing legislation, all non-coursing greyhounds must be microchipped...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat.

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is there somebody else here to share with me? I do not think so.

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not think I will use ten minutes. It feels like déjà vu. I have said it all before but we will say it again. Like the previous Deputy said, we will not oppose the Bill because it gives much-needed support to people who are in serious arrears. I do not think it is proper to call it a once-off payment. We had a once-off payment at the end of December 2022, so this is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: The European Conservatives and Reformists party is due to hold what it calls a cultural festival next weekend in Ireland. I would describe it as a hate fest. This group is made up of people like those in Giorgia Meloni's party, which is currently restricting the rights of gay parents to have full rights over their children and is waging war with NGOs that try to rescue people from the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach has some neck. He is always doing this.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not a fact. I defend the Taoiseach's right to be a gay man, to get married and have children. These people are shutting down that right.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Like whom? Detail it. I would like to hear the Taoiseach is talking about.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach did not answer my question. Does he think they should be welcome in this House?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Should it be a be a matter for us?

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputies Connolly and Pringle and the Independent Group for tabling this timely motion before the Chamber. I am sure that when they decided to table it, they had not envisaged the horrors we are witnessing in the Middle East and Gaza. To go back to where it comes from, we have been witnessing the erosion, slow up to a point, of our neutrality over recent years. This has been led by...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I suppose this is more of a comment that is probably going to go nowhere. I find it bizarre that, in 2023, gardaí did not have a way of knowing that this guy was in Cork and then he went to Kerry to protest in two different places on the same day. It is bizarre that they do not have a way of communicating that to each other. That means any bowsie could be doing anything, like robbing...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: The whole reason we are introducing the legislation is to protect women's right to access abortion services. The Minister is not comparing like with like. We are talking about a situation where a person tries to stop somebody else accessing services in Cork and then does the same in Dublin. It is not about that person accessing services; it is about stopping somebody else doing so. I do...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (24 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the total amount of gas supplied to data centres for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46216/23]