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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will take to ensure that parents and children have access to suitable places under the affordable childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31297/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 342. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 30 May 2017, if there will be a children's consultant ophthalmologist available at the children's hospital group (details supplied). [30886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Adaptation Grant (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if there is provision in the granting of adaptation grants for persons with disabilities under SI 104 of 2014 for exceptions to be made to the maximum grant available in circumstances in which the household cannot make up the difference between the maximum grant available and the costs of much-needed adaptation of a home for a disabled child; and if there...

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Irish industrial law.

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Absolutely.

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is very telling that any serious legislation to deal with what happened in Clerys does not come from the Government but the Opposition. Staff were given 30 minutes' notice to pack up their stuff and leave. Some had worked for 40 years and I used to be employed by Mandate and knew many of them. Clerys sold the company for €1 and the building itself was subsequently sold for...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: He is a good Deputy.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Buttons.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Yes, if the corporations were taxed.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I said buttons to the corporations.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister said that last year.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Tax the corporations. That is what we argued for.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Is that the whole lot of it?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am aware.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Deputies and Secretaries General should not get restoration but the lower paid should. The legislation is based on a series of lies. The first is that the financial emergency and the recession were caused by overspending on public sector workers. That is not true. However, the solution was to cut pay, pensions and working conditions. These people include nurses, doctors, firefighters and...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: The most pernicious lie is when we are told that if we restore the rights of teachers and firefighters, we would have to cut services. I have spoken about how 11 beds have been cut from the Linn Dara unit because the HSE cannot recruit or retain nurses to provide adolescent psychiatric care. This is because the HSE does not pay nurses enough and treats them unequally. As a result, nurses...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: North Korea.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: We are owed at least one minute.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I shall share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett and with Deputy Coppinger, should she arrive. The Deputy is not in the Chamber at the moment.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the public sector workers and pensioners who have come to the Gallery for this debate. I note also the absence of members of an Páirtí an Lucht Oibre - which translated loosely means the party of the working people - who are not here at all. Perhaps they are busy licking their wounds after the Jobstown verdict today. They are absent from the Chamber during a debate on...