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Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----the pay of public sector workers by a huge amount. Year on year for five years, over 230,000 public sector workers who earn less than €60,000 a year, with the vast majority earning less than €40,000 a year, have lost €27,000. That is a huge cut and a huge loss to those public sector workers in order to bail out the banks. When those of us in this House are...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the plans he has for any referenda in the coming year. [27372/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether his Department's withholding of certain payments from members of the ASTI will help achieve the Government's aim of modernising the education system or promote excellence and innovation in schools. [28375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether present disputes may affect the morale of secondary school teachers and the ability of the system to deliver excellence and innovation as per the programme for Government. [28376/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department intervened in the ongoing refusal of a State-supported company (details supplied) to honour a Labour Court finding in relation to workers made redundant; if his Department has instructed this company not to use State funds to honour the findings of another State agency; and if he will intervene in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Labour Court Recommendations (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason funding is made available to a private company (details supplied) by his Department while this company is refusing to obey the judgment of a State-appointed body in regard to its workforce. [28060/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 592. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the precise supports given by the IDA and any other State agency to a company (details supplied). [28046/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 593. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the financial support, if any, offered by the State to a company (details supplied). [28047/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 594. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs her Department expects a company (details supplied) to provide here in 2017. [28048/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (4 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 595. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the general supports client-supported companies can expect from the IDA and any other State agency that fall under her Department's remit. [28049/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle agus leis na Teachtaí a rinne na hathruithe chun an t-ábhar seo a phlé níos luaithe. I have been watching the broadcast of the Committee of Public Accounts meeting on NAMA. It is unfortunate that the Minister for Housing, Planning, Environment and Local Government is not present. While I was thinking of what to say to him,...

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: The only answer she gets from the Minister is, "My officials will meet you". She does not want to meet the officials because nothing moves. I will back her up 1,000% on that because nothing moves until somebody is shown up or has to pay for this. The seven families have to be accommodated. Work has to start immediately and with urgency on the Woodlands Park site and the money required has...

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: Somebody needs to stand over Louth County Council with a big stick and ensure it does not hide behind some other obfuscation and misuse of facts.

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is a relative term. It could mean a home.

Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry if I rudely interrupted the Minister of State. The expression "sun, moon and stars" is relative and, in this case, it could mean the supply of water or electricity or a simple home. Obviously, I do not say there is a demand for, or a request for, lavish expense on Travellers similar to that which is often lavishly expended on other sectors of society but, like everybody else,...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “That Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: notes that:- the recent €12 million payment to the HSE from an overpayment of pharmacy fees highlights a wider, systemic problem with our health service; - drug fees doubled between 2002 and 2008 under the previous Fianna Fáil-led Administration; and - cuts...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated yearly cost of the proposed 25-year contract for the NBP under the current proposed model. [27866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: 255. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated costs of alternative proposals around alternative models for unrolling the NBP or any such information his Department may have on such costs. [27867/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (29 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated savings his Department views the chosen funding model will deliver over the 25 years of any contract for the NBP. [27868/16]

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is relevant.