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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Therefore, among those 209 cases, it should be very easy to tell the Dáil or any particular Deputy where those tests originated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am not asking the names of individuals, only whether there were, say, 35 in America, 120 in Medlab. I am only asking for numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: In a recent parliamentary question, I was told that some had gone to Britain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It should not require a scoping exercise to get an answer to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Coombe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The answer to the latter question is there were two visits, one in 2011 and one in 2014. That was the answer that I was given. I am asking if two visits is sufficient in a ten year period.

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I do not know of any complacency.

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: We add our voices of sympathy and solidarity for the families of those murdered at the weekend. In the last week there has been a notable change in the tone of the debate surrounding the eighth amendment for the better. I also commend the remarkable surge in energy and determination of those who are campaigning in this referendum, particularly on the Yes-Tá side, up and down the...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: -----the medical supervision of doctors. Has the Cabinet thought about when it will bring that legislation before the House? We argue it should do so ASAP.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a co-educational, non-denominational, non-fee-paying secondary school for children in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12, in view of the fact that existing schools are at capacity and this is forcing parents and children to travel considerable distances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22452/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision of a college (details supplied) to raise the fees payable for music lessons for adult students only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22453/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (22 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 1 May 2018, if his Department sanctioned a fee increase aimed solely at adult and mature music students. [21991/18]

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I fully agree with everything the Tánaiste said. While I also recognise that a divisive debate is taking place, I want the Tánaiste to join me in stating the use of misleading information and ugly imagery and the claim that what is proposed is a licence to kill are confusing people. If they are asked whether they want to give women the right to decide for themselves, 62% answer...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I appeal to the Tánaiste, in the last week of this most historic campaign on the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, to join me in putting some things to bed with the public, who are continually indicating that there is a degree or level of confusion about what this is about. Will the Tánaiste join me in saying to the population that women's lives matter indeed and that this...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is a difference between a job description and a contract of employment. Obviously a job description informs a prospective employee of what the job will be like. I would have thought that on the day an employee starts they should be handed their contract of employment. That would be a reasonable halfway house between what Deputy Brady is saying and what the Minister is proposing. In...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: In my experience using the full rigour of the law is never adequate when it comes to the exploitation of workers. I make a basic point to the Minister. There is a relationship between somebody who is buying a worker's labour and the worker selling it. When someone is selling his or her labour, he or she needs to know under what conditions he or she is doing so. What happens on day one...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Why?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is perfectly reasonable.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am baffled as to why the Department is using substitute teachers as an argument. Substitute teachers are contracted by the State under a different arrangement. I know many of them. Members of my family are substitute teachers. I am sure everybody in the room knows some of them. It is not the same as being on the contract with which we are trying to deal. What the State requires of a...