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Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to speak to the Minister's announcement today rather than to the motion because the motion attempts to address the need for broadband but does not provide any detail on the model that its proposers claim would be best used. The Minister has claimed with some justification that the national broadband plan is on a par with the electrification scheme which the State undertook in its...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has undertaken any study or research into the effect on the Public Service of the reduction in starting salaries of newly qualified teachers, nurses and other Public Servants. [19717/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reverse the reductions in the starting salaries of newly qualified teachers, nurses and other public sector workers. [19716/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They had their pay and conditions slashed by FEMPI.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is so patronising when the Minister is cutting people's pay.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We hear the Minister.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They are sitting in the Gallery and they have heard the Minister say that at least five times.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They want to see the money back in their pay packets.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We have loads of ideas.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: With a gun to their heads called FEMPI.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the thresholds above which social protection clients will be liable for local property tax deductions; and the number of such clients who are liable for deductions in the Dublin South Central constituency. [19909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the State paid a sum of €5 million to purchase Numbers 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1, including details of the valuation process of the properties and of the recipients of the said moneys. [20058/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 201. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the provisions she has made to protect Sceilig Mhichíl, Contae Chiarraí, from damage during the filming there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15604/16]

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We welcome the Bill and support it as a first step in addressing the imbalance in worker-employer rights. We note Unite's recent report on low wages and precarious work, and Mandate's report that found that 17% of people who live below the poverty line work precarious jobs with so-called zero-hour contracts. We had a discussion earlier under Topical Issues on the Social Justice Ireland...

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I cannot mention everything. The Minister gets more time than I do.

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Very low-paid, precarious work, very expensive services and stealth taxes.

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Jobs alone are not going to solve the question of poverty, as the Minister knows well. He knows three quarters of all those living in poverty are outside the jobs market, as this morning's report indicates. They are people with disabilities, pensioners or young people who cannot work. There is no point in saying we have created X number of jobs and are resolving poverty. I will...

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Members may have read the Social Justice Ireland report today on the poverty figures. It makes for quite frightening reading, when one looks at the spike in poverty levels in recent years and sees that today more than 750,000 people in a country of 4 million live below the poverty line. We must ask ourselves what is the poverty line. It is important to realise that the poverty line is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They carry soldiers and soldiers carry and fire arms and drop bombs. The Chilchot report will be released tomorrow, nine years after it was commissioned. Comprising 2.6 million words and having cost £9 million, it will be the second earthquake to rock the British establishment in less than ten days. It will reveal engagement in war by the British establishment, in which, in terms...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Despite the Minister's previous answers to Deputy Paul Murphy and answers he has given in the past, I would like him to detail the numbers of US troops and military hardware that have passed through Shannon Airport from 2001 to date. The Twin Towers were attacked in 2001 and the war on Iraq followed subsequently. I would like the Minister to address that matter factually, as best he can.