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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 body is funded by the State.

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: I thank the Minister for her time. I am sorry if I have put my foot in it in any way.

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: I am probably going to have to leave early as well.

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: Perhaps the Minister can help me. If I want to talk to a Minister or a Department about the strike at Childminding Ireland, who do I approach? It is a State-funded body.

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: Therefore, it is only a matter for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and not anything to do with the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation. Is that correct?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pay (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 558. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the actions of management at an organisation (details supplied). [16977/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 559. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene in the ongoing strike at an organisation (details supplied) to make clear that this Government is opposed to employers forcibly making staff redundant in the selective manner that management has tried to do here and that Government funding will not be dispensed to employers who treat their workers in this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 560. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she aware of the actions of an organisation (details supplied). [17167/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 570. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he shares the sentiments of his counterpart in Finland, the Finnish Defence Minister, Jussi Niinistö, who recently stated that he supports reform of Finnish law to provide a legal mandate to expand the Finnish Defence Forces ability to participate in European wide international crisis management; if those who...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 571. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he shares the views of his predecessor, who stated he wanted Ireland to become a testing zone for advanced military and weapons guidance systems (details supplied); and if he will assure Dáil Éireann that he does not wish Ireland to become a haven for firms trading or researching such weapons of mass...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals to swiftly situate Ireland as a carbon dioxide-free energy user; the steps he will take to ensure Ireland no longer relies on imports of fossil fuels, on the future extraction of energy sources or on hydraulic fracturing in Ireland that would contribute to carbon dioxide levels rising, given that carbon...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears will take place. [14506/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority Administration (14 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the tendering process for public bus routes will take account of the record of a company in upholding labour law, in its obligations to its workforce and in conducting negotiations with its workforce on pay and conditions, prior to the awarding of any contracts (details supplied); and if he will ensure that the National...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: By now we should all see the evidence that the more we invest in our population at an earlier point, the greater the return at the other end. It is really well worth our while as a State putting resources into very young children in order to reap the benefits at the other end. There will be fewer problems with addiction, anti-social behaviour and repeated jail terms. It relates to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her plan in the programme for Government to tender school facilities to community groups and private providers is to use public schools for private child care; if she will offer publicly provided and funded after-school care in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14719/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the refreshing clarity the Minister is bringing to the answers she is giving. The clarity she brought to the question on the linkage between child benefit and school attendance was very useful because we did not get anything close to that from the Taoiseach yesterday. My question is on the plans in the programme for Government to tender out public school facilities for use as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I welcome that response but I reiterate that all the research shows that low income families in particular find it difficult to access child care and the average family spends more than 25% of their take-home pay on child care, which is twice what is paid in the European Union. My sister raised her two children in Sweden where the child care facilities were second to none, but it was all...

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I will probably not use the full 20 minutes remaining in the slot. I believe Deputy Mick Wallace wishes to use any remaining time and I am perfectly happy with that arrangement.

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We are discussing the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill on which we will vote at some point. The headlines surrounding the setting up of the board is that taxpayers will be protected from bailing out banks in the future and that the mistakes of banks will not be borne by the public. It has been said that under the new system bondholders rather than taxpayers will be on...