Results 241-260 of 8,013 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I will not bother asking the question because it has been dealt with repeatedly in the last session.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Despite the Minister's previous answers to Deputy Paul Murphy and answers he has given in the past, I would like him to detail the numbers of US troops and military hardware that have passed through Shannon Airport from 2001 to date. The Twin Towers were attacked in 2001 and the war on Iraq followed subsequently. I would like the Minister to address that matter factually, as best he can.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: This is an extraordinary example of passing the parcel with people's lives. The Minister says that permission must be sought in advance and the final decision, extraordinarily, rests with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, not with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade or the Department of Defence. It is an extraordinary system that allows Ministers to pass responsibility...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They carry soldiers and soldiers carry and fire arms and drop bombs. The Chilchot report will be released tomorrow, nine years after it was commissioned. Comprising 2.6 million words and having cost £9 million, it will be the second earthquake to rock the British establishment in less than ten days. It will reveal engagement in war by the British establishment, in which, in terms...

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Members may have read the Social Justice Ireland report today on the poverty figures. It makes for quite frightening reading, when one looks at the spike in poverty levels in recent years and sees that today more than 750,000 people in a country of 4 million live below the poverty line. We must ask ourselves what is the poverty line. It is important to realise that the poverty line is...

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Jobs alone are not going to solve the question of poverty, as the Minister knows well. He knows three quarters of all those living in poverty are outside the jobs market, as this morning's report indicates. They are people with disabilities, pensioners or young people who cannot work. There is no point in saying we have created X number of jobs and are resolving poverty. I will...

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I cannot mention everything. The Minister gets more time than I do.

Topical Issue Debate: Poverty Data (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Very low-paid, precarious work, very expensive services and stealth taxes.

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We welcome the Bill and support it as a first step in addressing the imbalance in worker-employer rights. We note Unite's recent report on low wages and precarious work, and Mandate's report that found that 17% of people who live below the poverty line work precarious jobs with so-called zero-hour contracts. We had a discussion earlier under Topical Issues on the Social Justice Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned at the treatment of Palestinian academics in the West Bank and Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force; and his plans to raise this issue with the Israeli ambassador. [19411/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 556. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for home help hours applied for in Dublin city by area; the number of those applications which qualified for home help hours; and the number provided to those who qualify for home help. [19536/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 691. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 8,000 community child care subvention scheme places from budget 2016 which have become available; the level of the take up from child care service providers; and the number of places which have become available since the scheme was launched by area in Dublin and nationwide. [19546/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We have loads of ideas.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: With a gun to their heads called FEMPI.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They had their pay and conditions slashed by FEMPI.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is so patronising when the Minister is cutting people's pay.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: We hear the Minister.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They are sitting in the Gallery and they have heard the Minister say that at least five times.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: They want to see the money back in their pay packets.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has undertaken any study or research into the effect on the Public Service of the reduction in starting salaries of newly qualified teachers, nurses and other Public Servants. [19717/16]