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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (22 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contingency plans he has organised in the event of a national bus strike at Bus Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14219/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to plans by the National Transport Authority, NTA or his Department to increase funding to Bus Éireann or to private operators of national bus routes in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14220/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (22 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the passing of the CETA trade deal by the EU and its implications for trade here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8706/17]

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The motion is comprehensive, well thought out and ticks every box in terms of how the victims and survivors of this terrible debacle should be dealt with and how we try to get at the truth. I note with interest the reference to South Africa, Chile, Australia and Canada. These states secretly carried out butchery and genocide, and engaged in cruelty against generations of people. The same...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: First, we should acknowledge that today is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We should acknowledge the Taoiseach's new global status as the champion of immigrants. He had 30 million plus hits for his speech in Washington. I invite the Taoiseach to co-sign a motion that has already been signed by 36 Deputies to end direct provision in this...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: What about in your own back yard?

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat.

Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: On behalf of the People Before Profit Alliance, I genuinely want to offer our condolences to Martin's family, friends, and, indeed, his comrades here in the Chamber. I know they are all very saddened but they also have great cause to be very proud. We would like to offer our condolences, as has been mentioned, to the citizens of Derry who have experienced a double whammy over recent days...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thought that was the Deputy's last question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I have to leave but I want to ask a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman. I apologise for being obliged to leave but I have other business. I agree with other speakers that there is an extraordinary atmosphere and a chill factor in respect of this issue. There is a legal process going on but representatives of IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the Minister are not here and two civil servants have been left to take the rap for everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----and that absence is worrying. That contrasts starkly with the kerfuffle and glamour around the formation of this project - involving the Taoiseach, the Minister at the time, Deputy Richard Bruton, Michael Flatley dancing around the place, the talk of foreign direct investment coming into the country, etc. - and the fact that this organisation will be shut down next Sunday. What...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: In recent days many people have been talking about nothing else other than the details of Tuam but we also all have a collective memory of having grown up and attended Catholic schools and lived in a Catholic-ridden State. I was talking to a friend who recalled how the nuns in her school used regularly to beat everybody but especially the Traveller girls, who were pulled down corridors by...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (9 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department's officials have met with any representatives of private bus companies in the past number of weeks; if so, if they discussed the threatened dispute at Bus Éireann and the provision of additional services by private bus companies during any dispute; and if so, the number of meetings and so on. [12555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (9 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to meetings or actions by the NTA to encourage or licence additional services from private bus companies in the event of any dispute at Bus Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12556/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Do we get the right to come back?

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Then let us hear what the Minister of State has to say.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I honestly do not blame the Minister of State for being annoyed and shouting and roaring that he is not responsible. This morning's edition of The Irish Times put it well where it states: "A complicating factor within Government is that while Mr Naughten has responsibility for the overall governance of the company, the post office network comes under the authority of the Minister for Rural...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: If we had €1 for all the various committees and studies on An Post that have been commissioned by the Government we would have a nice few bob in a savings account in An Post. There has been a plethora of working groups reviewing the post office network. One was under the auspices of the Minister of State, the post office hub working group to examine the Kerr report which, itself, was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the general practitioner service availability for parents of children under five years of age and address problems they have accessing this service. [12058/17]