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Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: Mar is eol do chách, tá daoine agus ár dteanga ag fulaingt go géar mar gheall ar an ngéarchéim tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht. Tá sé ag éirí níos measa gach uile lá. Cé go bhfuil líon na gcainteoirí taobh amuigh den Ghaeltacht ag fás de réir a chéile, níl sé sin mar atá sa Ghaeltacht...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am working on an issue I think will become very prevalent in social housing as build-to-rent apartments are rolled out. I am working with local people and with local councillor Hazel de Nortúin to campaign against what we are calling social segregation. In the build-to-rent model, 10% of apartments can go back to the local authority for social housing but families are now...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: They are not being allowed and the Department needs to do something about it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I have written to the Minister. We need to do something about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: We do not have the same degree of responsibility the Tánaiste does. That is a nonsense thing to say.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to abolish sub-minimum wage rates in light of recent recommendations by the Low Pay Commission and the ESRI report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Waste Management (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the recent threats by residential waste management companies to increase waste removal prices due to the loss of profits; if he is considering price controls or other measures to mitigate further increases in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning further legislative changes to the minimum rates of pay and work conditions for security officers in the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30467/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (11 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it has been drawn to her attention the distress and hardship that much-needed migrant workers suffer as a result of not being able to bring their families to live with them; that the family reunion policy has been under review for the past 12 months, and this delay is compounding the distress of working migrants; if she...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: Not agreed.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: You are out of order in this case.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: It is not relevant.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is twice; this is not relevant to the debate.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I already spoke but the Deputy's remarks are out of order.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I say to the Minister and to the family in the Gallery that there is very little left to be said as eloquently as the other Deputies have said it. I feel there is not a lot for me to add because I could not agree more with them. Absolutely everything that has been said, and has been covered here, has been covered time and again in this House in relation to Shane O'Farrell. I thank Deputy...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: On a point of order, can we get copies of the Minister's speech, please?

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am making a request for a copy of the speech.

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: I has become obvious that courage is a contagious feature of humanity. I hope the courage these women have shown will have more contagion for those who are victims of gender-based violence, rape, etc., and allow them to speak out. Explanations were given earlier for all that is being done and they sound very impressive but there is a problem with not having timelines given to us. We know...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: Aer Lingus announced today that it is cancelling a further 76 flights, which is on top of 392 already cancelled. I do not think anybody welcomes the disruption, uncertainty or confusion that this dispute has caused. At the same time, while the two sides, IALPA and the company, go into the Labour Court today, we learn that Lynne Embleton, the CEO, received €300,000 in shares and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2024)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in light of the planned withdrawal of service by criminal law practitioners on several dates in July, she will move quickly to deliver an independent, meaningful, time-limited and binding mechanism to determine the fees paid to criminal barristers by the Director of Public Prosecutions and under the criminal justice...