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Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: When I saw this I thought it was interesting that Fianna Fáil's first Private Members' motion was about the issue of motor insurance and was very much framed to present Fianna Fáil as the best friends in Ireland of the ordinary Joe and Josephine Soaps-----

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----which is quite ironic given its record. The biggest cost in insurance premiums, at 60%, is the legal cost. If one looks at the role and the history of the Fianna Fáil Party in government and the previous Government of the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party, none of them touched the legal profession. None of them went after the legal profession, even in the way the troika asked...

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We are talking today about an issue where legal costs represent 60% of the total cost of motor insurance, and despite this, the legal industry is the sector that is least touched in terms of this. Despite the portrayal by the industry of the real cause of the increase in cost being the young, fast-moving drivers who are fraudulent, who get whiplash at the drop of a hat and who are making all...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The question was not about how important schooling is to a child's education; it was whether this issue is being pursued.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Ceann Comhairle can force us to ask a question and if we want to talk, he says "No, ask the question, Deputy".

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to lower the tone of the House a bit. The Taoiseach went through a list of the sub-committees. Is that the full list?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Did he mention one on waste management?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will need one because the issue of charges for green bins came up in the House less than a month ago. This is the waste that generates profit through recycling. The proposal was then retracted by the new Minister with responsibility for housing, planning and local government. We now find that the big cartel companies, Thorntons Recycling and Greyhound Recycling, are doubling and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for implementing the programme for Government and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14505/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask the Taoiseach about one section of a programme for a partnership Government, a point I raised when it was first published in April or March. I am still really confused and am getting more confused by the day as to whether this section is to be implemented. It concerns the linkage of child benefit with school attendance. I raised the issue earlier because I was shocked to see...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The period I outlined, in which there was an ever-increasing shortage of staff in mental health services, was also a period of austerity, when economic hardship and worries such as where to live, job losses, putting a roof over one's head, sending children to college, etc., put a major stress and strain on people, which led to further loss of mental health in families, the self-employed and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please respond to the news that the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, has voted by a staggering 87% to take strike action over staff shortages in the mental health services, particularly among psychiatric nurses? The famous report, A Vision for Change, dates back to 2006 and recommended an increase of 1,800 staff in mental health services. By 2012, we were 23% below...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has seen the new documentary, Atlantic, and his views on the conclusions it draws for the fishing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14496/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will announce funding calls for and the duration of the new grant round under the new asylum migration and integration fund which the European Commission signed in 2015. [14269/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that enrolments in a school (details supplied) are being blocked by the school; if he is complicit in the campaign to close the biggest school in the area at a time when number of primary school age children is predicted by the CSO to rise by 20%; and his plans for a new school in the area to cope with the increasing numbers....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) has lost entitlement to rent allowance upon being placed on a low paid temporary work scheme by a local Intreo office; why it is not possible for the person to receive support from the local community welfare officer, given that this loss has resulted in an accumulation of rent arrears; and why, if the person and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Environmental Policy (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 589. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that climate change is the single most pressing issue for humanity, which will impact on every single aspect of our society and economy; that it is a major mis-step at this time to have effectively abolished the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in the new Administration and that,...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: One of the Sinn Féin Deputies said something that causes the imagination to stretch a lot. He said the Minister may well be following in the footsteps of Countess Markievicz. I am sorry but I do not think there is any comparison. She may be Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation but there is no comparison between the two ladies.