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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Every single one of them must be coming to my clinic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: If the Minister is in a position to provide figures regarding the number who appeal, can she also indicate the percentage of applications that are refused?

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: We have not got the ability to do so.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Today.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am glad that the Minister has qualified that the laboratories are safe "today". It is an historical question and there is a need for an investigation into outsourcing. I again ask the Minister, probably for the sixth time, if he will give the Oireachtas the information on from which laboratories the 221 false negative test results came. I am told by reliable scientists that it would be...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister keeps saying "today".

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: What about before today?

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: He said they were not ISO accredited. There are different standards.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I do not believe that.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister to address that issue, please, because I am worried about the future of the service as well as its past.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Ruth Coppinger.

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to start by stating something obvious. I am not being smart, but I hope it is obvious that I am a woman, that I have access to CervicalCheck services and that I support the screening programme. I have received a lot of criticism for scaremongering. I am not scaremongering; rather, I am querying why the outsourcing issue has not been properly addressed. Privatisation and outsourcing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry I missed most of the discussion and apologise if I am repeating things in my questions. I heard the presentations but not most of the discussion. Returning to the issue of the three days, I note from the presentations that there is nearly full agreement that this should be fundamentally a community-based service, that the vast majority of abortions are likely to be medical, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Under family planning services, would midwives and nurses also be able to provide the service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: This committee?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to reconsider its plan to remove 10% of direct bus services into the city in view of concerns from many residents in Dublin over the proposed BusConnects plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37772/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the awarding of bus routes in Dublin to a company (details supplied) in view of its record in Britain and the levels of pay and conditions of employment that workers at the company will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37773/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: We have to take very seriously the urgent need to complete the projects and move people into their homes in Cherry Orchard. One of the subcontractors says it is disgraceful how things have gone with Ireland's housing crisis. He says it is not MDY's fault, but is rather something in the background we do not know about, which is having a knock-on effect with every supplier and subcontractor....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State email us?