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- Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I again ask the Tánaiste to comment on some of the reports. I refer to a confidential Government report in 2013 which stated that the system was not ideal but it saved us money, and we did not want to change it in case we attracted other asylum seekers from the United Kingdom. Would the Tánaiste agree that, in reality, we are reinforcing the fortress Europe idea that we want to...
- Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I hope they are not put in direct provision.
- Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forth proposals to end the inhuman conditions attached to the direct provision model operating under her control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17151/16]
- Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: Will the Tánaiste make a statement on any proposals or plans she has to end the inhumane direct provision model that operates under her control? There are 4,000 to 5,000 people living under this system, 1,700 children growing up within it and more than 400 children already born in Ireland in the system. Will the Tánaiste make a statement on any plans to end direct provision?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (22 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland has met its moral obligations to act in the refugee crisis in the Middle East and elsewhere, given that the figures for the number of refugees that Ireland has accepted are below the targets that the Government has set and that her Department has stated that it has not as yet decided on a mechanism to increase the numbers of refugees...
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: It is only getting away with it because of the Fine Gaelers on this side of the House. I do not even-----
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----think they are Fianna Fáilers on this side. They are propping Fine Gael up to the hilt. As I said in this House when we started off in late February or March, why the hell do the two parties not just get together and run the country. There is no difference between them except the colour of their shirts. At this stage, that is all that exists. In principled, fundamental...
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----today that 86,000 social welfare recipients have had local property tax taken from them by Revenue already this year. The Government is sowing bitterness into people who can least afford to pay all of its sale taxes, local property taxes, bin taxes and we have already seen the reaction to the water taxes. The Government must learn at some point that the ordinary Joe and Josephine Soap...
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I compliment Deputy Fitzpatrick on his honesty because he really tried to lash the AAA-PBP out of it by stating he does not agree with the move of his Minister to freeze the charges. He does not agree and he believes everybody is happy to recycle, that there should not be a problem and that the AAA-PBP is creating imaginary problems because we do not wish to be positive in anything but are...
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I am just thinking aloud. I am not making an allegation-----
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I am thinking aloud.
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: It is not appropriate to make it but I am thinking aloud here. The Minister really is asking Members to adopt the spirit in which these godfathers of the waste management industry have spoken to him. I am sorry but that is precisely why we have tabled this motion, because we do not believe in spirits; we believe in legislation that would curtail the profiteering-----
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----of this industry in particular. I refer the Minister to a strike that took place in 2014 - not that long ago - by Greyhound workers. It was vicious and was like something out of the Lock-out, where scabbing on a major scale took place. People broke picket lines, a lot of violence was used and the Greyhound workers, who took strike action to defend the limited pay and conditions...
- Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)
Bríd Smith: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— the steady increase of charges for waste collection and the removal of waivers since the privatisation of waste management; — the recent outrageous plans to increase the standing charges for the collection of household waste that are proposed by many private waste management companies; — the severe hardship these rises will...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: Is it correct there are almost 2 million jobs in the country?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: Is it correct that 410,000 of those jobs are directly supported by the State through IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and local enterprise offices?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: My overarching question is to do with the committee having an oversight or a watchdog role as to what kinds of jobs these are. I have just come away from a large protest of young teachers who are suffering pay inequality. Due to the pay policies introduced by this Government, in their lifetime, they will earn €250,000 less than their counterparts or the teacher behind them. That is...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: That is fair enough. I accept that. I am naive and innocent to it. The real question I wish to ask is: what oversight do we, as Deputies, have on that issue?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: The question of the quality of jobs is not a matter for this committee. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Bríd Smith: However, there is a role for this committee on the questions I am raising. Is that correct?