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Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports or subsidies available to outpatients who are in receipt of social protection benefit and are unable to access bus, train or other public transport services to attend hospital appointments and are therefore forced to use taxi services and incur considerable expenses; if there was a support system in place in the past; if that system...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a person (details supplied) including the person's condition and health. [7791/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an explanation for the doubling of the cost of providing temporary homes, modular homes and rapid build homes for those in hotel accommodation. [7792/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the strategy for moving families from rapid build housing to permanent accommodation, given that there are no plans to build any significant amount of social housing to allow families move on. [7793/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has or will meet with officials of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, given the seriousness of the Luas dispute. [7796/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given that Transdev Ireland has repatriated almost €10 million in profits back to the parent company in France from the Luas operation since 2009, and considering that Transport Infrastructure Ireland and its predecessor, the Railway Procurement Agency, have boasted of the success of Luas and its role in helping the agencies...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of plans by Transdev to issue protective notice to Luas workers, given the ongoing dispute, and that in a letter from the company, the employment of the workers was drawn into question if they continued to engage in strike action; his views that the right to strike and collective bargaining are effectively being...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his role and that of Transport Infrastructure Ireland regarding Transdev's actions and if Transport Infrastructure Ireland was made aware of Transdev's stance with regard to workers prior to its public announcement. [7799/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that one of main stumbling blocks to the acceptance of the Workplace Relations Commission proposals in the Transdev dispute was the clause to significantly worsen the pay and conditions for new drivers; his views regarding this proposal, given that current workers' starting salaries are below the average industrial wage...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why the current contract between Transdev Ireland and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, previously Railway Procurement Agency, did not contain any provision for a new wage agreement with the Luas workforce; if he and Transport Infrastructure Ireland were aware at the time of the awarding of this contract that Luas workers like most of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (20 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware or concerned that while Transdev ignored the attempts of their workers to negotiate such a claim, that the State's agencies, both Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority, were deciding to award the Luas contract to Transdev; given this, his views that claims by him and the agencies that they...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Restructuring (26 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance to seek clarification from a bank (details supplied) as to the way in which it intends to conduct a sale of credit card debt of small and medium enterprises in County Dublin in the near future; to whom invitations are issued to partake in this sale; the discount the bank is offering for the purchase of the debt portfolios; and if he will consider...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (26 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that are fully operational; the number that are under construction or nearing completion; and the number that are planned but have not yet commenced construction. [8403/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (26 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care networks currently operational; and the annual cost of operating a primary care network. [8404/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (26 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to encourage broadband providers in County Dublin to urgently deal with the lack of adequate broadband provision in the Drimnagh and Inchicore areas and to establish when provision will come onstream. [8271/16]

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: I congratulate people in every town, townland, village and city, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and on every housing estate who for the past four years have put their shoulders to the wheel and fought tirelessly to see this day come. Irish Water and water charges may not have been abolished, but we are witnessing the beginning of the end. Although we have not gone the whole nine yards,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (27 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: 107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, In view of the serious moves and threats recently made by Irish Rail to seek an court injunction against both NBRU and SIPTU over the introduction of new rosters and schedules he or his officials were aware prior to this threat being issued that Irish Rail would proceed in this manner; if he or his officials met with or discussed...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: I wish to focus on fortress Europe. There will be much criticism of the role of the EU from the radical left on this side of the House, and there will be much defence of that shameful role from the other parties. "Fortress Europe" is a colloquial term which basically means that Europe has been designed to make the journey to Europe as difficult as possible for people fleeing war, famine and...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is also nonsense to suggest that Syrians do not wish to come to Ireland because all of their relatives are in Germany.

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is nonsense. I visited Syria many times and I know that most ordinary Syrians have never heard of Ireland. They do not know we exist. If one asked them why they do not wish to come to Ireland, they would probably reply that they had never been asked, they have never heard of it or nobody had ever suggested it. We have committed to taking 4,000 Syrian refugees, but we have taken less...