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Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I would-----

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Acting Chairman is not a gift horse but he is a very bad Chairman.

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It was out of order not to let me speak.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is unbelievable - can my microphone be switched on please - that, having just discussed a release free of charge of in the biggest robbery in history, and in a country with almost 200,000 empty properties and rents having soared by 66% since 2011, the Dáil voted against a measure that would put a stop to this. Last Saturday, I stood on the Ballyfermot Road to prevent a woman and her...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State should check with the people who were homeless last night.

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State should stop exaggerating.

Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I did not realise the Acting Chairman was going to take my question. I get squashed in at the end. Will the Minister of State have time to take the question?

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with ongoing problems being experienced by persons trying to access accommodation or remain in existing accommodation under the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24810/17]

Other Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask the Minister of State about the ongoing problems experienced by people trying to access accommodation under the HAP scheme. Will he make a statement on the matter?

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is connected with the attitude to the trial.

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Tá ceist agam. I will argue that the Minister is scapegoating Mr. O'Connell and that he will be thrown under a bus for the problems this situation has raised. The Minister is really arguing in her statement that the Government is about to close the stable door now that the horse has bolted. I will ask about the role of An Garda Síochána. It is usual practice for...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: EY.

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: That was not my question. Is the Minister's Department employing EY on contract?

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Does the Minister's Department use EY?

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Or any Department.

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I was just clarifying my question.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of house building projects and the number of units involved in those projects that are in the process of being built or at the planning stage under the control of local authorities and that will deliver local authority owned and run social housing in the next period; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24681/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry I was late and missed the presentation but I thank the witnesses for their research, which is useful. Have they examined the Government's proposed Bill? If so, what is their opinion of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Government has just published the heads of a Bill to amend to the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. There are differences. Dr. O'Sullivan was discussing the six-month rule but the Government wants an 18-month rule and it wants a minimum wage payment of three hours for people who turn up and do not work. A pharmacist is cited. If he or she turn ups and does not work, he or she...