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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason redundancy offers to school secretaries are capped at a maximum of two years salary; when the cap was introduced; and if it applies to other grades and positions in his Department and related sectors. [52739/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a person with a stamp 3 visa whose partner has a stamp 4 visa can take up an offer of work here; if not, if the person must apply for a separate visa; and if so, the steps they should take in this regard. [52732/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 349. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 7 November 2018, if he will request further clarification from the HSE on issues (details supplied) from its reply [52746/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the removal of height restrictions has a major upward impact on the site value of the lands and that the price obtained for land disposed of by NAMA recently is considerably less than what could have been obtained; and if his Department discussed the likely impacts with NAMA...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Property Sales (18 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if NAMA had been informed of the forthcoming change to height regulations but continued to completion with such sales; if so, the reason NAMA was permitted to dispose of such sites at considerable discount to their subsequent revaluation; and if he was advised of these sales and-or disposals prior to the announcement on...

Centenary of 1918 General Election: Statements (13 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am very proud to commemorate the election of 1918. We should remind ourselves that what brought this about was a mass movement against conscription and, before that, the 1913 Lockout and the Easter rebellion, as well as, in no small measure, the Suffragettes, who at one stage threw a hatchet at Herbert Asquith, smashed windows in Belfast and Dublin and used very strong civil disobedience...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Trade Union Recognition (13 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the decision of the HSE to refuse to recognise a trade union that represents ambulance drivers will result in industrial action by those workers; his plans to deal with such a dispute; the effects this will have on hospital services nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52565/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Trade Union Recognition (13 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will be instructed to recognise the union chosen by workers in the ambulance service to represent them; if the decision to withdraw from cooperation with this union was notified to him by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52566/18]

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Some are Deputies.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: It might have been because I was busy at the Joint Committee on Climate Action.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is not because I was trying to ignore it.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Fair enough. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has put that on the record.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: He explained that he was a reluctant landlord and that is why he used his casting vote. My point is that all of the decent Members should refuse to vote if-----

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I accept his statement that I did not hear. I say to anyone with a modicum of decency in the House that we must change what we are doing and share the wealth for the benefit of the majority, not hog it in the hands of a tiny few.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: They were offered HAP and could not get it.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is not true.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is not true. Check the figures.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to start by paying tribute to the hundreds of volunteers who will spend tonight and many nights between now and Christmas in the towns and cities across this country helping homeless people, those in poverty and those living in temporary accommodation by giving them food, toys and clothes and by entertaining them. They do so because there is a void in the services being provided by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the MaREI representatives for their interesting contributions. I am keen to go back to the issue of carbon capture and storage. A spokesperson for Science Foundation Ireland, which funds the MaREI project, said recently at another committee meeting that we should not be too panicky about climate change. The view was that developments in science like carbon capture and storage will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Is it obstructing a move to the next level?