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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Employment Rights (28 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...employed or contracted abide by current regulations related to maximum working time driving and breaks and so on; if the NTA has any role in the implementation and enforcement of such regulations as they apply to transport sector and to the tourism sector specifically; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23948/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people refused permission to enter Ireland via inbound flight in the past 12 months who subsequently applied for international protection, by nationality of applicants and month; the number refused permission to enter Ireland who were actually turned back with the airline that brought them in, in tabular form;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...for the establishment of defects scheme for apartments and duplexes is currently at and to confirm when the draft legislation will be published; when he believes that OMCs will be able to apply for and receive funding for permanent remediation of defects; if he will commit to passing the legislation before the budget and if so, if he will clarify what financial allocation will be required...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...savings funds? It wants to save for the future when it appears that it will take in more money than it will spend, but using these savings funds for its countercyclical fiscal measures cannot apply in this instance. People are already struggling with the cost of living and the lack of public services. Their needs must be prioritised. We need to ensure that we end homelessness and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify if it would have been possible for DCC to apply for Stage 2 approvals recently rather than full Stage 1 Approvals, and what would have been required for this to happen; if he will make inquiries to ascertain if there are any internal difficulties that DCC is facing with progressing regeneration projects in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...relation to the provision of accommodation for those seeking international protection, he will take steps to ensure that training for new accommodation providers is not only provided but rigorously applied and tested as much as possible; is he aware that while experienced accommodation providers know the supports and services that are available, there are reports that new providers do not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: Before Christmas and after the House had shut down, the results of a competition none of us, I think, knew about were released. Indeed, the people who had applied for it did not know until they had sent in the applications that it was a competition. It was for grants in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, education. There were over 2,700 applications from schools around...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (23 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...supplied) ineligibility for current electricity credits because the house’s MPRN is designated a low-usage account; if he will ensure that those who may be missing out on the credits will have them applied as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2621/24]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...who really want to progress the equality agenda in this country and has made it even more difficult for the citizens' assembly, which did a lot of work on the question of equality and how it should apply to the Constitution. Amazing work was done by the Joint Committee on Gender Equality, much of which was based on constitutional legal arguments. Nevertheless, the work was very...

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

Bríd Smith: ...warned Joe Bloggs or Mr. X in Kerry and that he turned up again in Cork. These people do that and are already doing it, but we have the experience of implementing zones that cannot be entered. It applies to elections, and all we are asking is that we do it for women's health, their right to access health and the right of people to deliver that healthcare without being intimidated. As...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...in Applewood, represented by Home Club Limited, which has evicted dozens of families in the past nine months because it can. This is because the new element of extending all new tenancies to be long-term tenancies does not apply to it. They are on six-year tenancies and between now and the next five years, dozens of families around this country could be evicted on that basis. That...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: .... My constituency is littered with working-class areas with second-hand houses. These people are being excluded from the first-time buyers' allowance if they want to buy a second-hand home. It only applies to new housing. Where is the logic in that for a whole swathe of people who live in our city? To deal with the crisis in climate, I have commented on what I could not believe my...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...past and up to now, when they have committed sexual offences in this State have been dealt with by court martial rather than by gardaí and civilian courts. This Bill will now change that. Court martial will apply only where those offences are committed abroad. This is a very welcome change, and all honour to the Women of Honour for campaigning to make sure that this was included in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: Would you apply the definition to the Palestinian people?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...your own people. If I fired a rifle, a bullet would come out of it, and if that bullet hit somebody, it is likely to kill them, yet he described it as non-lethal and humanitarian. Would the Tánaiste apply the same logic to supplying weapons training, for example, to Hamas if it wants to defend its community on a humanitarian basis against the Israeli army tearing down their villages...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...of the spiralling cost of living. The childcare model is broken. The Government subsidises small and medium companies. Some crèche owners report they feel handcuffed by the amount of paperwork needed to apply for the subsidies. On the other hand, parents are constantly worrying that the costs will rise further. Childcare workers know their skills and their contribution to this...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the speed and the accuracy with which An Garda Síochána will move in and tell people who are distributing leaflets on behalf of a candidate to get outside that 100 m zone. This is the proactive measure we have to apply when dealing with those who want to spew their hate and bile against women and the providers of abortion outside clinics that are looking after women's...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection who have applied from Ukraine since the Russian invasion; if applicants who were not in Ukraine at the time of the invasion are accepted into the temporary protection to persons fleeing the war in Ukraine programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25934/23]

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...renewable companies, in this version at least. It may be added later on. Will we ask wind farms and so on to return some of their profits to offset the crisis for ordinary people? It will not apply to all profits. It is set at 75%. That is why I argued for 100%. Will the Minister of State please explain why it is set at 75%, even if it has been ruled out of order? The loopholes...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: .... They are not alone. The vast majority of farmers have not done well from the policies of the State – those in the Beef Plan Movement or the tens of thousands whose incomes are so low as to be illegal if we applied the minimum wage criteria. If we look at the significant discrepancy in farm incomes and farm sizes, we can see why there would be a great deal of anger in rural...