Results 461-480 of 8,013 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has plans to ensure the Commission for Regulation of Utilities will regulate the prices charged to consumers on district heating systems; if he has plans to change the current charging system that apply to district heating systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28759/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (15 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify when his Department will issue a money message or a reasoned response for the Petroleum and other Minerals Development (Climate Emergency) Amendment Bill; if he can clarify why this has taken his Department this length of time to issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (15 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the reason that an autistic person's home support hours have been reduced by an autism support service (details supplied); what process to appeal this reduction is open to the person affected; if this person's care plan can be unilaterally changed like this; if the HSE will ensure that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I raise the special leave with pay scheme for workers who are out sick with long Covid. Healthcare workers in particular have had long periods of illness from Covid, and a scheme was put in place in June 2022 to ensure they would get paid if they were out sick with long Covid. That is due to end on 30 June. Therefore, from 1 July, potentially hundreds of health workers who stepped up to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28609/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach may or may not be aware of it but next Tuesday, 20 June, is World Refugee Day. It is both an opportunity for us to celebrate the incredible strength, perseverance and courage refugees have shown globally in the face of adverse and varied reactions from governments around the world to their plight, and an opportunity for us to protest aspects of what is happening to them at the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: After six months.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: But there is a group that is treated differently.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: It does not stop them from working until they get an answer to their applications.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Before I introduce the Bill, I want to say quite openly and publicly that People Before Profit sends its full sympathy and solidarity to the family of the late and great Christy Dignam. If he was alive today, he would fully support this Bill. My experience of him was when he played in a local venue in Ballyfermot in the 1990s. It used to...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Sinn Féin again for the second motion on this issue in seven months. Deputy Whitmore asked what the Minister is going to do if there is a full-out strike. What would that look like? I remember a full-out strike of the fire service in Dublin Airport in the late-1990s. The Ryanair baggage handlers had gone on strike and solidarity for them started to spread through every...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit warmly welcomes our colleagues from South Africa. It is good to see them here. I do not know how much they know about this little island but it is partitioned and there are things that impact on either side quite harshly sometimes. One of those is women's rights. On the very historic day we got the repeal referendum result and we all gathered and celebrated in Dublin...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Shared Island Dialogue all-island women's forum civic initiative. [28610/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: I also want to ask the Taoiseach about data centres and comment on the astonishing speed and insistence of the Ministers, Deputies Eamon Ryan and Coveney, to protect the data centre sector in light of the statistics showing a substantial increase in the amount of electricity - up 9% in the past five years - that is being used by these centres. As previous speakers indicated, the sector's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: My question relates to the same subject. The Taoiseach did not mention it but did the issue of Ireland's breach of the Council of Europe's labour rights obligations come up for discussion while he was in Iceland? Thousands of people will be interested to know if it did. Approximately 34,000 workers are paid sub-minimum wage rates in this State. Half of those are young workers and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: The only way to address that is to change the law, and we will attempt to do that tomorrow morning with our Bill. We will see what way the Taoiseach votes tomorrow evening. I ask the Government not to submit an amendment in order to kick the issue down the road for another year. There may not be much more than a year left in this Government's term of office. People are getting sick of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Council of Europe. [26170/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the progress made on reaching SDGs and on international aid; what the target is; and where we are at specifically in relation to, a Voluntary National Review on the SDGs, reaching 0.7% ODA/GNI with high-quality, poverty-focused overseas aid and climate financing; if the Government will address Irish civil society's five...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of insurers writing to consumers on the issue of the danger of having homes underinsured, and so on; if the companies are now using the issue of potential underinsurance as a mechanism to reduce potential pay-outs to tenants for certain claims; if any regulatory authority under his Department has received any complaints or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 379. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can clarify (details supplied) in relation to the residential zoned land tax. [27918/23]