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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (24 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if recent comments concerning circumstances in which some nursing staff may not be awarded the same increases offered to other public sector staff under the agreement to deal with pay inequality are accurate; the legislation under which such measures could be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43951/18]

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister will not be surprised to hear that I am disappointed with his first outing as Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in opposing the Bill and not issuing a money message to prevent its progress. Deputy Paul Murphy has raised most of the important points much better than I could, but the last point he made is often overlooked in this argument, namely, that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister's troubles at the beginning are in battalions, not in single spies. This is a big one. The structural safety assessments to be carried out on 30 schools built by Western Building Systems are important because the lives of the children who attend those schools are at stake. The seriousness of that should not be lost on this House. If the Minister were in opposition and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive answer but it raises other questions. The questions it raises for me do not just involve the structural assessment of the schools and the number of children and parents who are going to be displaced in their lives as a result. Could we have a structural assessment of the system and of the use of public procurement tendering processes that put us in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve general practitioner coverage nationally in view of the strain that the proposed legislation on abortion rights will put on general practitioners and access for women nationally. [43626/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: On this historic day, most Deputies are very happy that the House voted by a margin of 10:1 to progress the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill. My question concerns the level of general practitioner, GP, care available. There is a crisis in GP care. How will it be affected when women want to access termination services in January? What plans does the Minister have to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sure the Minister has a better handle on the numbers etc. than do I, but they are quite alarming. The average number of doctors per 1,000 patients is 3.3 in the OECD but in Ireland it is 2.7. Unless those figures rapidly change, that will require action, particularly in areas where GPs see more patients than is the case in other areas. North inner city Dublin has the highest level of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: Members will have the chance to table amendments to the legislation. The three-day waiting period and two doctor visits into which women will be forced will cause genuine problems, particularly in flashpoint areas such as parts of rural Ireland and poorer areas of inner city Dublin with a far higher ratio of patients to GPs than the rest of the country. An interesting article in The Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a protected disclosure by staff at Harold's Cross Hospice; his role in such cases; and if the governance and management of the hospice in relation to public funding and industrial relations with staff will be examined. [43624/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the laboratories that conducted the tests on the 221 women identified to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43623/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Health if the laboratories in which the 221 cases of women given false negative results conducted by CervicalCheck are known to him, the HSE and CervicalCheck management; and if so, the reason this information has not been provided to this Deputy in view of numerous requests for same. [43627/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (23 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation at Linn Dara CAMHS in Cherry Orchard in relation to the operation of the service, reported staff shortages and reductions in bed capacity will be clarified. [43625/18]

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: In 2015 or early 2016, Deputy Gino Kenny and I organised a public gathering between Clondalkin and Ballyfermot because this was such a hot topic. Tragically, it was after the death of the 16 year old Warren Kenny on Christmas Day. It prompted us to push forward working with the youth groups to see what we could do to garner the energy around this as a sport. We looked for land from South...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The programme for Government makes a serious commitment to improve mental health services for young people and adolescents. A shocking letter was sent yesterday by the Psychiatric Nurses Association to the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, which shows that the number of operational beds in the Linn Dara child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, unit in Cherry Orchard has been...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister please to read that letter and bring it to the attention of Cabinet. It is quite shocking.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is interesting that the Minister of State wants to hear views on alternative systems. I can think of one. Offering immediately shelter, food and safety to children and their parents who come here is a challenge, but leaving them in direct provision accommodation for up to seven years is absolutely obscene. There is an alternative to the system, namely, not having the meeting of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: The right to work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I repeat what I said before: for every hungry belly, there is a pair of hands and a brain, which is quite obvious. The limiting of the right to work by the State for people in the direct provision system is quite shocking. Most of the parents want to work to be able to independently provide their children with accommodation that does not include a communal bathroom shared with grown men and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: If their cases are being appealed, they cannot work.