Results 941-960 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will itemise or detail the potential categories of internalised benefits that were not part of the report (details supplied) into fare-free public transport; the reason such benefits did not form part of the scope of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15983/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on his efforts to secure the release of a person (details supplied) who is currently being held in an Iranian prison; if he is aware of the declining health of the person and the urgency this poses in terms of the person's release; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16009/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Equality (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his plans for improving gender equality. [12865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (30 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge that approximately 300,000 people in Ireland are currently living with a rare disease; if he will provide adequate resources for genetic services in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15963/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: On behalf of People Before Profit, I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion, which we will be supporting. I specifically wish to say how incredible it is that in the third richest country on the planet, we cannot budget properly for the expansion of our education system and that we are making such a bags - to be frank - of the budgeting for the development of our schools. As has...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. [15157/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15156/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: We have probably all known for a while now that data centre operators have been developing their own energy capacity in recent years. We are all aware of the danger of the blackouts we were warned would occur over the winter months. These did not happen but the full extent of generation capacity has only recently been learned and revealed. It indicates just how considerable the energy...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Data centres do not provide many jobs.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach needs to read more left-wing pamphlets.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: It should not be for profit.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Like broadband.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: Because landlords would leave the market.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Government has never proven how it causes landlords to leave the market.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [11608/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to publish a Housing for All report with the final figures of housing delivered for the whole of 2022; and when he expects to do this. [15433/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to point out that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive sent a circular to councillors in the last week to offer reassurance to HAP, rental accommodation scheme, RAS and other tenants who may be affected by notices of termination. The reassurance they give is that they refer the tenant to Threshold. A HAP tenant can look for alternative accommodation on the rental market. They will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: This is the second time in a month I have had to raise this matter. I still have not got an answer from the Department or the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is last person I raised it with. The Taoiseach mentioned employment regulation orders with regard to childcare. There is an employment regulation order in respect of the security industry. Employment in that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Carlow will have a women's refuge in place as promised in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15577/23]

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: This figure of €2.9 million gives us just a hint of the failure in this State. The fact that we can purchase credits from Slovakia gives us another hint that the entire EU trading system and sharing efforts are a form of a giant accounting trick. I think the Minister of State knows this. As someone said before, it is like a medieval indulgence that allows you to buy your way out...