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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: According to the media, construction of the national maternity hospital is due to commence on 14 December. We still do not know when a company, which 18 months ago we were promised would be established, will be incorporated. This company was to be established for the expressed purpose of separating the new national maternity hospital from the St. Vincent's Hospital Group. Until such time...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Boyd Barrett. Last Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to ask the Minister for Health the same question about ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital and I got no answer. I do not think it is good enough that the public, especially women, are, until the 11th hour, when the deal was supposed to be signed off on on Friday, not being...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach commit to linking changes in tax and benefit rates to expected wage growth to deliver what he says he will?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am pointing out an anomaly in Government policy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Their incomes will decrease.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: This is what he calls the squeezed middle.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach rejects the ESRI report.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is renowned for his rhetoric to the effect that he will deliver for those who get up early, such as the low and middle income earners of this country. At the weekend we learned from an ESRI analysis of budget 2019 that a decision not to link changes in tax and benefit rates to expected wage growth will reduce the average disposable household income by 0.7%. It was said that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Governance (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken in relation to a protected disclosure from persons at a hospice (details supplied). [51526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Governance (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 277. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports regarding governance issues at a hospice (details supplied), specifically in regard to bullying and harassment of staff; and the steps he will take to address concerns regarding recent audits of finances at the hospice. [51527/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Governance (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 278. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person involved in making a protected disclosure at a hospice (details supplied) was subsequently dismissed by the hospice following disciplinary procedures; and if he will investigate governance at the hospice to ensure such breaches are not occurring and that public funding is not inappropriately used....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of increases and changes in Dublin Bus cash and card including Leap fares each year since 2008, in tabular form; and the details of increases and changes in Luas cash and card including Leap card fares since 2008, in tabular form. [51770/18]

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Who are our own? Are they the very wealthy people who sink their money offshore or avail of tax loopholes so that they do not have to pay their fair share? Are they the people who lost the €20 billion that we cannot find from NAMA, as Deputy Wallace mentioned earlier? Are they the people in the financial centre on the docks who are insisting that we keep €13 billion of Apple...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I very much welcome the Bill and congratulate the Civil Engagement group in the Seanad. I see Senators Kelleher and Higgins are present, who I assume are the architects of this Bill. I feel proud that I am in a Parliament that gives a damn, tries to make things better for refugees and feels and sees that in very humane terms. The measure is very simple. I thought this would be totally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My first question is for Mr. Collins on the legislation and the role of the Minister. He stated the Minister's role is to provide a comprehensive legislative and policy framework but then the Minister is precluded from exercising any power or control with regard to the performance of local authorities and their functions. It is 22 years since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I understand that Parliament passes the legislation but my question is whether, 22 years after it was passed, Mr. Collins sees it as a help or a hindrance that the Minister has no power or control regarding the performance of the EPA or the local authorities in respect of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Is it a strength that the Minister has no control or power over it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: However, there is no accountability in that case, is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is one question. It extends to another one, and it is close to my home. On my doorstep there is a site belonging to Thorntons Recycling, which has the contract for all the brown bins in all the hospitals, colleges and McDonalds branches in the greater Dublin area. A large amount of brown bin content is going to that site, which is no more than a quarter of a kilometre away from one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The EPA deals with the complaints but the maximum penalty the company suffers for breaching the odour bar set for it is €3,000. The company has been in court two or three times and it has paid the fines, but it is like lunch or pocket money for the company compared with the profits it makes and the money it saves on diesel, location of workers and so forth by being on the doorstep of...