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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff, disciplinary procedures and workplace related issues such as allegations of bullying...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to facilitate persons with disabilities that have been told that their existing free travel cards must be replaced by November 2017 with the new public services card; the further steps that are in place for persons in rural or isolated areas with mobility or sight issues for whom travelling to their nearest welfare office...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff, disciplinary procedures and workplace related issues such as allegations of bullying and so on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff, disciplinary procedures and workplace related issues such as...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 238. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff, disciplinary procedures and workplace related issues such as allegations of bullying and...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am making a political point that there are similarities between them, particularly in how they treated women. The outgoing Attorney General included a sentence of 14 years into the recent legislation for women who take an abortion pill. Those are parallels that matter. There are also parallels in how a previous Fianna Fáil appointee prevented a former Deputy, Ray Burke, from giving...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am stating facts. This is historical fact that amounts to a political point.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: No one can dispute the facts. Whether I say them in this House or not, people out there know that they are facts. I am making a parallel between this appointment of an Attorney General by this Government and one made by a previous Fianna Fáil Government. The quality that applies on both sides of the House is that they are loyal to their class and to the people in power. They stay...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I want to make it clear that I have no idea whether Máire Whelan is an eminently qualified judge, as is alleged by the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and Deputy Brendan Howlin, but nor do I have any idea that she is not, as alleged by Deputies Micheál Martin and Jim O'Callaghan. On one level, I do not believe it really matters to most ordinary people because I believe most...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I do not know; I cannot say. From what I can see, she probably is eminently qualified from that proximity to those in power and the loyalty she gives to her own class. Like previous Fianna Fáil appointees to high positions, either as Attorneys General or judges, she has shown herself to be reliable and loyal to those who appointed her, and loyalty and reliability seem to be the only...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: A previously eminent Attorney General interned a 14 year old rape victim and the outgoing Attorney General, about whom the controversy is, inserted----- This current Attorney General, about whom the controversy -----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 88. To ask the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself that the closure of 11 beds at Linn Dara CAMHS will mean that children and adolescents in need of these services will receive the care needed; if this closure is in line with the government commitment to implement vision for change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27901/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to deal with problems of retaining and recruiting staff in key sectors of the health service in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/17]

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: I agree very much with the previous speaker on the idea that we can, without a full evidence-based debate in the House, state the ordinary courts are not working and are not adequate and that we must continue and endorse the Offences Against the State Act. As a new Deputy speaking to a new Minister, I have to say in earnest it is a high and tall ask of us and of many other people in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: These fires, whether started illegally or naturally, cause considerable damage to wildlife, in particular, at the time of year to which the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys's Bill proposes to extend the provision, when birds and other forms of wildlife are beginning to make their homes, nest and mate, and then to breed their young throughout that season. With the cutting of the hedging, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 63. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the loss of nests and food stores of birds and other wildlife caused by the recent gorse and heather fires that were started illegally in some mountain areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27567/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Before I ask the question which relates to forest fires, I express the sympathy of my party and I am sure of everybody in the Dáil to the people of Portugal who have suffered a severe loss in forest fires in the last couple of days. My question relates to the loss of wildlife and the nests and food stores of birds and other wildlife in the recent gorse and heather fires started...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: What I really want to get at is that the burning of vegetation is forbidden in certain months but takes place regardless of the restraints. What we need to know is the extent of the damage and the scale of the impact of recent fires on wildlife because only then can we gauge the damage the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys' Heritage Bill might do. In case people do not know, the Bill...

Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to film companies availing of section 481 relief that are recruiting workers as trainees on film sets but providing no training to these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27565/17]

Priority Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (20 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has the Minister's attention been drawn to film companies availing of the section 481 relief of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997? These companies are recruiting workers as trainees on film sets but are providing no training to the workers.