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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the public services card was first introduced. [2954/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the safe 2 process was introduced; and when the first procedures under safe 2 took place. [2955/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 2,245 social houses built in 2017 that were delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies, rapid build by regeneration and via Part V respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V homes delivered in 2017 bought by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the number leased by councils and approved housing bodies respectively; the average cost per unit of these units that were leased by local authority; the length of the leases of those bought; the average monthly rent;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost and size of the 2,266 acquisitions for social housing in 2017, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2966/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time of the leases for the 798 houses leased for social housing in 2017; the unit cost of these leases per month, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2967/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 910 RAS contracts signed in 2017 that were renewed contracts and new contracts, respectively, for existing RAS tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2968/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 17,916 HAP tenancies signed in 2017 that are still in existence and the number broken by landlords, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (23 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all voids brought back into use in 2017; the length of time the homes were void by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2970/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (18 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and supports in place to inform and assist terminally ill persons to obtain an MCE1 form for a medical card in order that they can avail of the medical card guaranteed to terminally ill persons. [2403/18]

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I went out to show my solidarity with the protesters outside. I came from my office in Agriculture House down to Leinster House. One would swear to God there was a revolution happening outside the gates. There are barricades, which must have cost a fortune, across the laneway that leads to the back of Dawson Street and over to the other side of Kildare Street.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: There are big metal barriers outside Buswells Hotel and it is impossible to move in and out. Only that I am a Deputy and the gardaí recognised me, I would not have been able to move. Why is there such paranoia about this subject and women? Why is society so terrified to allow women to have a voice on an issue that has everything to do with their bodies? The vast majority of people...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the opportunity to address the motion and talk about our amendment. I welcome all the workers to the House. It is only because of their determination to take some action that we are discussing this today. Standing up for oneself is crucial in this day and age and it is fundamental to getting change. Workers have been left behind to a huge degree in this so-called recovery....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I appreciate the Minister's positive responses, but they will not be welcomed if she is saying to pensioners that they will have to wait until 2020 and that the rates will only be adjusted from that year onwards. There are very angry people, particularly women, who are saying this issue must be sorted out now and payments backdated. They will not put up with the loss of €1,500 to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister's colleagues do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is only one woman and better off without it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: It will help to make up the minds of others though.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will take measures to reverse the discrimination facing women whoraised families before 1994 when their contributory pension entitlements are calculated; the steps she is taking to address the losses suffered by pensioners as a result of the changing of the bands for the contributory pension in 2013; and if she will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am asking the Minister the same question as the previous one but in a different manner and I would like the Minister to take a slightly different emphasis from the one she took with respect to the question of discrimination against women in this regard. Although these band changes affect both men and women, there are particular measures of discrimination affecting women who raised their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: I accept the Minister will not think of this in the same way that I do but in so far as we have our gender in common, on a daily basis we are faced with a barrage of elements of discrimination in this society, the latest being the revisiting of the debacle that Joanne Hayes faced in 1984 because of the Kerry babies issue. The question that jumps out is this: why it is recognised that women...