Results 5,941-5,960 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: The root of this is the definition of what a worker is. It is people who sell their labour or who own their labour and use it for their own benefit because self-employment would imply that people are doing it for themselves. When they are selling their labour, they are creating wealth and profit and doing things for somebody else, namely, the employer. We need to look at how we define what...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I have a question for the more experienced Deputies and the Chairman. If we do not pass section 9 now, can we amend it again on the next Stage? I am innocent as to how all of this works procedurally. I do not disagree with the Minister imposing criminal sanctions but we might lose out by not considering amendments that have been ruled out order. I do not disagree with what she is trying...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: The same Standing Orders will apply but could we come at it differently?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Okay.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Does the Minister think that three days is reasonable? Or three and a half days? Will we haggle?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: If we do not accept it, can we revisit it on Report Stage? Can we table different amendments and come at it from a different philosophical perspective, rather than just focus on the wording?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I ask the Deputy to tell me as he has been in this place for a long time.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the detection rates of pre-cancerous abnormal cells discovered by each of the four laboratories contracted to conduct the cervical screening tests (details supplied) since 2008 for each of the laboratories concerned. [21805/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the reports and studies relied on by his Department in 2008 and subsequently to support the decision to outsource the cervical screening programme. [21806/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the submissions made by laboratories tendering for contracts for the cervical screening programme in 2008 and on subsequent occasions. [21807/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2014 and subsequent audits commissioned by CervicalCheck were part of the laboratory quality assurance process; and the details of such audits. [21808/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if the screening test conducted in US laboratories is conducted in the same manner as those done in laboratories here; and if all smears are separately screened by two independent medical scientists who are trained as cytologists. [21809/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if the staff conducting smear testing in laboratories outside of the State are qualified to the same standard as those conducting the tests here, that is, if they are medical scientists and pathologists with specific qualifications and training similar to that required to operate here. [21810/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. My first question is for Ms Cliona Sharkey of Trócaire on the issue of inequality. I agree completely with the Acting Chairman that we do not just need to deal with climate change but that we also need a system change. In her presentation Ms Sharkey spoke about global climate impacts being at crisis levels. She has pointed out that in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: That is good. Was a date set to discuss the recommendations made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: That is fine. The delegates from RECAP made a very strong statement. They said it was appalling but not surprising that, as a state, we were resorting to buying compliance with our 2020 climate change targets through the use of statistical transfers. I agree with them and welcome their strong statement. I ask them to comment on how we could use the possibility of our facing fines of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: I call for public housing.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Housing that could be rented out to people who are working.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State answer my question on the first major cost rental model-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 May 2018)
Bríd Smith: There is no site picked yet.