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

Bríd Smith: Dr. O'Sullivan noted that the international practice is to provide a minimum payment for the hours people turn up for and do not work. Does she agree that should be the national minimum wage or a different minimum payment?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24335/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the prices being charged in the shop in Mosney to persons in the direct provision system to determine if these are at a reasonable level compared to other shops; the reasons for differences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the alleged food shortages in the Mosney resident's shop over the Easter weekend; if persons donated milk and bread to the residents over the weekend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the single procedure changes and provide a numerical breakdown of the different categories of persons being processed; her plans for fully implementing the single procedure; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the partial implementation of the plan is causing distress and confusion among...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if asylum seekers are entitled to open a bank account by right here; the acceptable forms of proof of identity and proof of address for those residing in direct provision and other convention asylum seekers that wish to open a bank account; her views on whether clarity in this regard will allow asylum seekers and banks to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount contributed by or deducted from all public sector workers toward their pensions including amounts from the pension levy, in each of the years 2010 to 2016. [24048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 396. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department plans to issue authorisation for persons to enter onto private land in County Donegal or on islands off the coast of County Donegal to carry out the corncrake census; if her attention has been drawn to complaints that contractors to date in 2017 have broken the law in the construction of fences and so on without...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 397. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which grants for persons to provide protection for corncrakes was dispersed by county in 2016 and to date in 2017; the reason most of these grants were allocated to counties Mayo and Donegal, in which most of these birds nest without adequate funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24131/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 398. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the pending fines or possible prosecutions against the State for breaches of EU wildlife protection law and destruction of protected habitats; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24132/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the projects that Transport Infrastructure Ireland plans to commence with the remaining €70 million of funds now available following the recent ECJ ruling on VAT on toll roads (details supplied). [24047/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to put in place for children to ensure they can continue to avail of vital services (details supplied) that are in fact helping to reduce child poverty within very disadvantaged areas of the country as evidenced through poverty deprivation scores. [24411/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 671. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she will protect the rights of children to ensure that they are not further marginalised through the enactment of new legislation (details supplied). [24412/17]

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Just some of them.

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I admire the fact that the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, who is not present in the Chamber shows a little humility in his approach to this matter. He consistently says the measures he has introduced are not perfect and need to be added to. However, I take issue with what he considers to be better and what he would like to add to the current regime. For the moment, I advise him to study a...

Dublin Transport: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 3: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes:— the failure of the Government to bring investment levels in Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann back to pre-recession levels; — that this failure has contributed to an ongoing crisis in our public transport system, especially in Bus...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: My question concerns the Department of the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, as he promotes himself through this campaign against alleged fraud. The language he uses in answering parliamentary questions is interesting. He wants to promote discussion, challenge perceptions, encourage reporting, increase awareness, demonstrate the seriousness of the Government and the very...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 60. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of contracts for equipment, goods or services procured from Israeli-based firms and companies over the past five years by the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23277/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address the endemic low pay among personnel in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23276/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on. [23962/17]