Results 661-680 of 8,110 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the promised return of nursing staff to Curlew Road health centre; if he will clarify whether staffing levels have increased; when the health centre will have a full complement of staff back to deliver much-needed health services to the population of Drimnagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24253/23]

Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023: First Stage (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023. I noted the Tánaiste's earlier response to Deputy Bacik, when he said that the Government will do anything to help reduce emissions. Here is a good idea for this Government. The Bill is very simple. We have a climate emergency, both globally and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is a good way of putting it.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can clarify the measures that he intends to take in situations where a landlord or property owner is refusing to engage with councils or approved housing bodies on the sale of a property with in-situ tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23479/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can outline his plans to address the crisis in elderly accommodation in the private rental market in light of a recent reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23480/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: After-School Support Services (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 532 and 533 of 9 May 2023, if he can detail the steps his Department takes in cases where a service provider has beached the terms of the core funding agreement; If a company (details supplied) has broken the terms of core funding by imposing a charge on parents for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify when legislation will be in place to ensure there are safe zones to protect women and medical staff in health settings facilities to ensure they can access or provide abortion services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23807/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit welcomes the publication of this survey. The SAVI report was completed 21 years ago, in 2002, but unfortunately successive governments have been very slow to provide the funding and resources necessary for the desperately needed recommendations in that report. Despite the claims or perceptions that we have progressed in this society or somehow become more liberal or...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Earlier this year, the Iceland supermarket chain was sold in its entirety but continues to trade. Conditions for workers in those stores have seriously deteriorated. The big issue for them is that many of them have not been consistently paid for the hours they worked. Many of them are owed quite a lot of money. Their trade union, the Independent Workers Union of Ireland, reckons that at...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----so that when the majority of employees have joined a union, like the Independent Workers Union, they cannot be told "Go to hell, we are not engaging with you". This employer has broken the law by refusing to pay these workers' wages.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: This is not industrial peace.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a report (details supplied) which highlighted that one in four employees stating they suffered from moderate levels of burnout, vicarious trauma and moderate or high levels of “compassion fatigue”; if he will acknowledge the disparity between contracts for teachers and coordinators and managers of the organisation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not heads of agreement but an MOU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I apologise for being so specific about this. Is Mr Keating implying that there is not competition between the ports and that they have co-ordinated, joined-up thinking at national level about who goes where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not the State and not the port authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: So the ports are competing with each other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Instead of joining it up and co-ordinating who goes where. That is what I thought. I thank Mr. Keating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank all the representatives for coming. I apologise for just arriving and firing questions at them that have probably been asked. If they have, I ask our guests to indulge me and give some brief answers to them. My first question is in the context of our rising emissions, which shot up by 12% in the final months of last year. This was the complete opposite to most other European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is the Business Postright that the Port of Cork signed heads of agreement with a US firm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Sorry, will Mr. Murphy say that again?