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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) has lost entitlement to rent allowance upon being placed on a low paid temporary work scheme by a local Intreo office; why it is not possible for the person to receive support from the local community welfare officer, given that this loss has resulted in an accumulation of rent arrears; and why, if the person and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Environmental Policy (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 589. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that climate change is the single most pressing issue for humanity, which will impact on every single aspect of our society and economy; that it is a major mis-step at this time to have effectively abolished the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in the new Administration and that,...

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: When I saw this I thought it was interesting that Fianna Fáil's first Private Members' motion was about the issue of motor insurance and was very much framed to present Fianna Fáil as the best friends in Ireland of the ordinary Joe and Josephine Soaps-----

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----which is quite ironic given its record. The biggest cost in insurance premiums, at 60%, is the legal cost. If one looks at the role and the history of the Fianna Fáil Party in government and the previous Government of the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party, none of them touched the legal profession. None of them went after the legal profession, even in the way the troika asked...

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We are talking today about an issue where legal costs represent 60% of the total cost of motor insurance, and despite this, the legal industry is the sector that is least touched in terms of this. Despite the portrayal by the industry of the real cause of the increase in cost being the young, fast-moving drivers who are fraudulent, who get whiplash at the drop of a hat and who are making all...

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I will probably not use the full 20 minutes remaining in the slot. I believe Deputy Mick Wallace wishes to use any remaining time and I am perfectly happy with that arrangement.

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We are discussing the Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill on which we will vote at some point. The headlines surrounding the setting up of the board is that taxpayers will be protected from bailing out banks in the future and that the mistakes of banks will not be borne by the public. It has been said that under the new system bondholders rather than taxpayers will be on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her plan in the programme for Government to tender school facilities to community groups and private providers is to use public schools for private child care; if she will offer publicly provided and funded after-school care in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14719/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the refreshing clarity the Minister is bringing to the answers she is giving. The clarity she brought to the question on the linkage between child benefit and school attendance was very useful because we did not get anything close to that from the Taoiseach yesterday. My question is on the plans in the programme for Government to tender out public school facilities for use as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I welcome that response but I reiterate that all the research shows that low income families in particular find it difficult to access child care and the average family spends more than 25% of their take-home pay on child care, which is twice what is paid in the European Union. My sister raised her two children in Sweden where the child care facilities were second to none, but it was all...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (9 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: By now we should all see the evidence that the more we invest in our population at an earlier point, the greater the return at the other end. It is really well worth our while as a State putting resources into very young children in order to reap the benefits at the other end. There will be fewer problems with addiction, anti-social behaviour and repeated jail terms. It relates to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears will take place. [14506/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority Administration (14 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the tendering process for public bus routes will take account of the record of a company in upholding labour law, in its obligations to its workforce and in conducting negotiations with its workforce on pay and conditions, prior to the awarding of any contracts (details supplied); and if he will ensure that the National...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals to swiftly situate Ireland as a carbon dioxide-free energy user; the steps he will take to ensure Ireland no longer relies on imports of fossil fuels, on the future extraction of energy sources or on hydraulic fracturing in Ireland that would contribute to carbon dioxide levels rising, given that carbon...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— the steady increase of charges for waste collection and the removal of waivers since the privatisation of waste management; — the recent outrageous plans to increase the standing charges for the collection of household waste that are proposed by many private waste management companies; — the severe hardship these rises will...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I compliment Deputy Fitzpatrick on his honesty because he really tried to lash the AAA-PBP out of it by stating he does not agree with the move of his Minister to freeze the charges. He does not agree and he believes everybody is happy to recycle, that there should not be a problem and that the AAA-PBP is creating imaginary problems because we do not wish to be positive in anything but are...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am just thinking aloud. I am not making an allegation-----

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am thinking aloud.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is not appropriate to make it but I am thinking aloud here. The Minister really is asking Members to adopt the spirit in which these godfathers of the waste management industry have spoken to him. I am sorry but that is precisely why we have tabled this motion, because we do not believe in spirits; we believe in legislation that would curtail the profiteering-----

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----of this industry in particular. I refer the Minister to a strike that took place in 2014 - not that long ago - by Greyhound workers. It was vicious and was like something out of the Lock-out, where scabbing on a major scale took place. People broke picket lines, a lot of violence was used and the Greyhound workers, who took strike action to defend the limited pay and conditions...