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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: It is worth this House noting that tomorrow, over 200,000 public sector workers will take strike action in Northern Ireland to secure a pay increase. They have traditional been very badly paid and so I salute them. We should note this because these workers are in our country. We may not have jurisdiction over them but it is a very important strike. Also important are the pay talks with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----to take account of inflation over the last two or three years and those ahead.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: To repeat, I am actually standing here to say the far right are liars and Nazi sympathisers. They spread bile and lies, first of all about single men, and then it extends to all refugees, including the terrified women and children we saw in the videos the other day. It is the far right that are spreading the riots. They are Nazi sympathisers and they see racism as a tool to deflect against...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: I will have that debate with the Ceann Comhairle again but I stand over my right to say that they echo the sympathies of Nazis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: I can.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: They are not the facts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am the leader for the new year, okay?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: I want to put it up to the Minister and to the entire Government that the problems we have seen over the past few days in Roscrea and beyond are not the fault of asylum seekers; they are the Government's fault. I am pointing the figure at the Government because I really mean this. I am so angry, as is everybody, about the scenes of women and their children being frightened and bullied, and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland is not submitting the names and details of the families of Palestinian-Irish citizens for exit from Gaza as other countries have done, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, and many others; if he will acknowledge that while these family members are not Irish citizens,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene to help secure the release of three persons (details supplied) who were kidnapped by the Israeli army on 13 December 2023; if he will acknowledge their work with traumatised children living in the Jenin refugee camp and how necessary their work is; if he is aware that the IDF took 100 persons from the camp and killed...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 337. To ask the Minister for Finance if renters in unregistered tenancies will remain ineligible for the rent tax credit; if he will acknowledge that those in precarious rental arrangements may risk losing their tenancy if they challenge their landlord; if he will recognise that those in this position often are on low incomes and would particularly benefit from the scheme, yet based on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 383. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any decision has been made or if any discussions have taken place with his Department that would see the current linkage between the salaries of serving members of An Garda Síochána and retired members being altered in any way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56855/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 779. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 392 and 393 of 12 December 2023, if he will confirm that Dublin City Council has provided the additional information sought in relation to a funding application for temporary improvement works previously carried out in response to the hepatitis A outbreak to his Department on 5 December...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 1592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ministerial licence applications and MCAP applications have been made by clinics (details supplied); what products are available from these clinics; which products are available under MCAP and covered for reimbursement; when the MCAP review report is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57098/23]

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will share time with Deputy Barry. The Minister made it nearly impossible for us to be enthusiastic about this referendum. Many parties on this side of the House have played a key role in helping progressive referendums pass. I, like Deputy Cairns, worry that the Minister is not going to get this one passed for the reasons I stated earlier in that those in the far right have latched...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will not try to compete with legal experts that dominate this House. Between Deputy Bacik and the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, I do not know what they are talking about half of the time but I do want to put across a perspective that is important for the vast majority of ordinary people because what this is about is removing a very offensive piece of wording in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: A couple of years ago, RTÉ wrote to Catherine Martin, the Minister, to ask for permission to use the pension fund to pay for the administrative costs of the fund. This is not normally done; the employer normally pays the admin costs. The figure involved would be upwards of €30 million over the lifetime of the fund. She refused, but RTÉ appealed and apparently she has done...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exports Growth (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: 37. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any consideration or study was undertaken by his Department or any other Department in relation to his recent trip to Korea and the proposed expansion of beef exports, in reference to the climate impact of such an expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51600/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: 509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information regarding the talks between his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to rectify the problematic issues caused by proposed changes to tax laws for GP group practices; (details supplied); if he will outline the outcome of these talks; if GPs concerns will be allayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56189/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: I just got off the phone in the last hour to a couple in my constituency who have a diagnosis at 22 weeks of a fatal foetal anomaly. They have a two-and-a-half-year-old child and, at a multidisciplinary team meeting this morning, they were refused a termination on the grounds of fatal foetal anomaly because it is "impossible", in the words of Marie O'Shea, who spoke to the health committee...