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Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I endorse the amendment. We discussed at the joint committee the importance of carers and the role they play. This report would be very revealing and helpful to analyse what is going on in a layer of society at which no one really looks. Very often, these are women. In most cases, they are women who work into their 50s and 60s to look after an elderly parent or an elderly or ill sibling....

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: We want to call a vote on that last one.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider new legislation or new regulations to prevent members of An Garda Síochána from retiring when they are subject to an ongoing investigation into their conduct in view of recent cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49789/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commission a public inquiry into a case (details supplied) in view of the fact that the GSOC report on the tragic case has failed to provide answers to the family or the public that are needed to restore confidence in the state criminal justice system and the rule of law. [49788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration Licences (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the recent findings of the ObSERVE Programme into marine life will inform his policy on issuing licences for the exploration of oil and gas in view of the fact that such activity is known to destroy plankton, damage breeding grounds for many species and cause disorientation to many whale species listed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications for the development of social housing by local authorities and approved housing bodies in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [49915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (29 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number on social housing waiting lists nationally; the number of applicants (details supplied); and the number of cases in which the applicant is applying for a family; and the size of families on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49916/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: On the Dutch model, one thing they have in Holland is compulsory non-ethos-based sex education from an appropriate early age onwards. Those here who have a difficulty with legislation for abortion but simultaneously complain that not enough is being done about socio-economic policies will, I assume, support recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly that will bring in free contraception and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to speak to amendments Nos. 33 and 34. Insofar as I want to challenge what has been said in regard to this being in the heads of the Bill that was put to the people, which got us the vote to repeal the eighth amendment, I want to make the following points. As has been said, it was not a decision or a recommendation, it did not even form part of the discussion for those of us who sat...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to respond to something that was just said by Deputy Donnelly in support of the Minister. He called for something he did not table as an amendment, which is that when it comes to having the review after three years, as amended by the Minister, we would have the input of this House. If he wanted the input of the House before the review takes place, the he should have tabled an...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: This is probably the final comment I will get to make on this. This provision will come home to roost in the most dangerous situations for women. I do not believe that it is envisaging somebody forcing a woman to take the pill or forcing her to have an abortion under the ten or 12-week limit, when 95% or 96% of women generally seek terminations. The number of women who seek terminations in...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Even though we would be introducing them.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Not for the woman, just the doctor.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister just said that he has taken this from the front of the Bill and put it in the back because in our discussions and we talked about the chill factor for doctors. I am sure he is not misinterpreting anything but I think he is misplacing the sentiment. What we said and still mean is that having it upfront makes this Bill look like it is about criminalising abortions rather than...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this very important issue. The PwC index is very interesting where it shows that the level of inequality - 14% less pay for women than men - is up from the figure in 2014 when it was 12%. It is 18% in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. An interesting comparison is that Iceland has had equal pay for the genders since 1961 - 57 years of...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is also the case that during those austerity years pensions were cut for women. Services like home help and special needs assistance, SNA, were cut, again jobs largely done by women. Their levels and their pay were cut. The legacy of austerity also looms large here. It is good to document these things but they will not go away until we set out to improve our industrial relations...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is a good deal of work to be done, and I welcome a Bill that attempts to begin to document what is required in that work, but there was a level of tongue and cheek in the way the Labour Party approached this issue, given its record when it was recently in government.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost in relation to the operation of the various competitive tendering models or public procurement models used in education to build schools at both primary and secondary level since 2008, that is, the costs involved in selecting a winner to build schools not the actual cost of the building; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (28 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional agreements with teachers in primary and secondary level in order to deal with outstanding issues on equal pay and cuts made in past years have been costed; the figures for meeting such outstanding issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49212/18]

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit fully supports this proposed microgeneration Bill and I commend Deputy Stanley on bringing it forward. It seems to me that the Minister would be fully supporting this Bill, as would any Government that understood and really got what climate change actually means. The dangers of catastrophic climate change are a priority issue that is facing us and while the Minister...