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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste did not.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to bring forward any proposals that address the rights of retired workers in relation to having representation rights concerning their occupational pensions in light of his recent rejection of the proposal to grant retired workers the right to take cases to the WRC in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can detail the total volume and value in euro of Ireland's exports to and imports from the state of Israel; the categories of products exported and imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51602/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on proposals to restrict and ban goods originating from illegal settlements in the West Bank; if his Department can provide any figures for the volume of such goods and their value of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51603/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to his recent trip to Korea and proposals for further data centres in this State, if he or his Department officials discussed the State’s energy crisis with his Korean counterparts; if the drain on the State’s energy system from the current number of data centres here was outlined or discussed; and if he...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I have to come back on two very obvious, almost glaring, contradictions in what the Minister of State has just said. Both he and the Tánaiste are at pains to create this equivalence by all of the time going on about 7 October and what Israel is doing without, by the way, ever once condemning Israel. There are two pieces that I am going to pull out from what the Minister of State has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not doubt that the Minister of State’s statement that all residents will remain in the care of the HSE is true. Unfortunately, the transfer on a like-for-like basis will not actually be like for like. For example, it jumps out at me immediately that there is a 24-7 medical team on site in Cherry Orchard. A GP will only be present one day per week in the Bartra Healthcare centre...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is it not a conflict of interest that those who carried out the inspection on the Willow and Sycamore units do not have engineering qualifications? We need answers that go much deeper than what we are getting.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister of State for taking the debate this morning. I will pre-empt it by saying I hope by the end of the discussion she will strongly consider meeting representatives of the families of the 68 patients in Cherry Orchard Hospital who are due to be moved, mostly against their will, to the Bartra Healthcare centre in Clondalkin to allow the refurbishment of two units, namely,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to draw the attention of the Taoiseach and the Chief Whip attention to the fact that on Saturday, the world will mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. As this House does not sit on Saturday, it is unfortunate that we will not have a session on it this week. I ask the Business Committee to guarantee that we have a serious session next week on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is even worse.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the significant delay at CHI Crumlin’s nephrology/urology department in responding to a GP’s repeated request for an appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify if HIQA has ordered an urgent evacuation of 68 elderly patients from Cherry Orchard hospital; if he is aware that there was no consultation with families in advance of a decision that will impact on 68 people and their families; if alternative accommodation can be arranged on campus to minimise disruption; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (16 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if it would be considered a conflict of interest if an ex-HIQA inspector became a director of a private nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50369/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(6) The Minister may, following consultation with the Minister for Justice, prescribe by way of regulation, the systems which shall be used to record warnings issued under subsection (2).”.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I hope I use my two minutes carefully, correctly and usefully. I am here going on eight years. When I first got elected, we were trying to fight for the referendum on the eighth amendment. I have got a news flash for the Deputies who have just spoken: the train has left the station, the eighth amendment was passed, women do have a choice in this country, and rehashing all the old arguments...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am not trying to correct the Minister, and while it is true there have not previously been safe access zones, it is only recently there has been access to abortion in this country, which gives rise to the protests that are happening outside providers, whether they are hospitals, clinics, GP services or whatever. There has, however, for a long time been an amendment to the Electoral Act....

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, line 4, after “writing” to insert the following: “, or by any other manner and in any such system as may be prescribed by the Minister in accordance with subsection (6),”. This is about the warning system we talked about during the course of this Bill. In other words, if somebody commits an offence by breaching a safe...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to summarise his Department`s actions on exploring difficulties Travellers might have in opening and retaining social housing applications; if he acknowledges that his Department has given a commitment on this matter as part of the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy/NTRIS (Action 130); the steps his Department has...