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Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Footsteps is a different matter. Countess Markievicz was a revolutionary and, clearly, the Minister is not a revolutionary.

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: With regard to what she said today, it is welcome to see an increase in the number of jobs but I argue that we have to put an emphasis on the type of jobs. The first thing to point out is the disparity between what the live register says about employment figures and what the unemployment figures say. While the Minister acknowledges this, it is important to re-emphasise there were 315,600...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Mick Barry is going ahead of me.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is because the Government lost.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Especially if the Government loses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients per month who register at emergency departments for treatment but who leave before being discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13768/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 104. To ask the Minister for Health the potential cost savings and benefits to health of introducing a national pharmaceuticals policy, which ensures that persons receive quality drugs at the lowest possible price and that doctors prescribe the minimum of required drugs to treat the patient's illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits to the public service in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I like that last part.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. The issue before us says a lot. Everybody has expressed their outrage at the record of the Labour Party in the previous Government. To me, it is like Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde was in government and during that time, it is worth reminding ourselves that, particularly in the public sector, Labour created havoc in terms of workers' pay, allowances,...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: When in the next 30 days will the Minister attend the House to attempt to justify the extension of the FEMPI legislation? It must be renewed before 30 June if the Government wishes to renew it. I have tabled a motion which is on today's clár calling for its repeal. On day one when it was introduced in 2009, we were told that we were in a state of emergency and that the Government...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: When will the Minister attend the Dáil to extend the FEMPI legislation?

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Therefore, the legislation will not be extended.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am pro-life as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: To respond first to Deputy Martin, I am not arguing-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: All right, then the Ceann Comhairle should have said to Deputy Martin that he was not required to respond to me because he accused me of not allowing men a right to have a say on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Time is running away. I again ask the Taoiseach the following question. How long will he leave women, who want to be able to control their own bodies and have full bodily autonomy over their lives, waiting in this country? What will be the consequences for them travelling, perhaps, to the Olympics Games or on holidays to areas where they might contract a virus, which would be unusual but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The courage to give women a 14 year sentence-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: That was very brave.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: They did not put in the 14 year sentence.