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Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: One of the Sinn Féin Deputies said something that causes the imagination to stretch a lot. He said the Minister may well be following in the footsteps of Countess Markievicz. I am sorry but I do not think there is any comparison. She may be Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation but there is no comparison between the two ladies.

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Footsteps is a different matter. Countess Markievicz was a revolutionary and, clearly, the Minister is not a revolutionary.

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: With regard to what she said today, it is welcome to see an increase in the number of jobs but I argue that we have to put an emphasis on the type of jobs. The first thing to point out is the disparity between what the live register says about employment figures and what the unemployment figures say. While the Minister acknowledges this, it is important to re-emphasise there were 315,600...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients per month who register at emergency departments for treatment but who leave before being discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13768/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 104. To ask the Minister for Health the potential cost savings and benefits to health of introducing a national pharmaceuticals policy, which ensures that persons receive quality drugs at the lowest possible price and that doctors prescribe the minimum of required drugs to treat the patient's illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (2 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits to the public service in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please respond to the news that the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, has voted by a staggering 87% to take strike action over staff shortages in the mental health services, particularly among psychiatric nurses? The famous report, A Vision for Change, dates back to 2006 and recommended an increase of 1,800 staff in mental health services. By 2012, we were 23% below...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The period I outlined, in which there was an ever-increasing shortage of staff in mental health services, was also a period of austerity, when economic hardship and worries such as where to live, job losses, putting a roof over one's head, sending children to college, etc., put a major stress and strain on people, which led to further loss of mental health in families, the self-employed and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to lower the tone of the House a bit. The Taoiseach went through a list of the sub-committees. Is that the full list?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Did he mention one on waste management?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will need one because the issue of charges for green bins came up in the House less than a month ago. This is the waste that generates profit through recycling. The proposal was then retracted by the new Minister with responsibility for housing, planning and local government. We now find that the big cartel companies, Thorntons Recycling and Greyhound Recycling, are doubling and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for implementing the programme for Government and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14505/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask the Taoiseach about one section of a programme for a partnership Government, a point I raised when it was first published in April or March. I am still really confused and am getting more confused by the day as to whether this section is to be implemented. It concerns the linkage of child benefit with school attendance. I raised the issue earlier because I was shocked to see...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The question was not about how important schooling is to a child's education; it was whether this issue is being pursued.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach please answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Ceann Comhairle can force us to ask a question and if we want to talk, he says "No, ask the question, Deputy".

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has seen the new documentary, Atlantic, and his views on the conclusions it draws for the fishing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14496/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will announce funding calls for and the duration of the new grant round under the new asylum migration and integration fund which the European Commission signed in 2015. [14269/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that enrolments in a school (details supplied) are being blocked by the school; if he is complicit in the campaign to close the biggest school in the area at a time when number of primary school age children is predicted by the CSO to rise by 20%; and his plans for a new school in the area to cope with the increasing numbers....