Results 121-140 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [23998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (13 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions the Government is considering in relation to the implementation of the adequate minimum wage Directive; if certain policy changes will be included (details supplied); the other policy changes being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25806/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recently published national reform programme 2024. [23999/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent phone conversation with the Israeli President. [23879/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [23878/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has any plans to provide extra supports to students from Gaza, in light of the awful situation they and their families have endured and continue to face in Palestine (details supplied); if he will take extra steps to further support these students; the measures he can take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 56.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that at least 11 Palestinian graduates who came here to study on ICOS/Department of Foreign Affairs-/Irish Aid-sponsored scholarships have recently received a letter (details supplied); if he agrees that this is a poor choice of options, given the situation in Palestine; the reason the option to secure a two-year graduate...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Homeless Accommodation (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 247.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the Dublin Simon Community 100 bed health and addiction care facility located at Usher's Island, Dublin 8, if he can now confirm that the operational funding required will be in place before the opening of this critical and much needed development in Dublin city centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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

Bríd Smith: 253.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has read the communication from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the delay in signing the new Employment Regulation Order for security officers; if he acknowledges that security officers are some of the most poorly paid workers in the State and are struggling to pay their bills as a result; if he will commit to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 431.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is self-employed and who was placed on the temporary Covid payment during the pandemic has an entitlement to jobseekers’ benefit payments, or to the State pension (contributory) at 66 given that contributions during the pandemic period were interrupted; to clarify the steps such...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 669.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the case of a child (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism, a global speech delay and a developmental delay by a psychiatrist who advises early intervention and access to a range of therapies; if he is aware that parents are being told that there is a five-year waiting list for these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: 735.To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify if the HSE owns the land at a location (details supplied); if there are any future plans for the land when the hospital is fully built; if so, what it may be used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24919/24]

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing forward the Bill. I am getting my head around it. I received the briefing note from Coalition 2030. It gives a context for this coming before the Oireachtas and says the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in its report on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommends the establishment of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It has been brought to my attention that at least 11 students from Gaza are on a scholarship programme here through the Irish Council for International Students-Department of Foreign Affairs Irish Aid programme. Academics have confirmed to me that those students have been written to and told they either have go back to where they came from or go somewhere else, while students on similar...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I just asked you a question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: That is what it says on the letters they got.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Sorry-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I apologise for my tone. I am just asking-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----you to do something to make sure those students remain.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste is being very defensive. Will he answer my question? No.