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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (15 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 and 92 of 30 April 2024, if he is aware that the proposed draft childminding regulations represent a further bureaucratisation of a system that is already onerous for parents and service providers; if he is aware that childminders are reporting that these regulations...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...the Government today that something will be done. I will pass on Greg and Sam's details to the Minister of State afterwards. Nicola, who is also up there in the Gallery, is the mother of three children - two boys and one girl. Both of her sons are autistic. Sean, who turns 13 next week, is due to start secondary school. This seems to be a common problem - ten different schools have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...world and said "Do something. Act. You must act now." When will the Government act? Rather than just talking about what needs to be done and bemoaning the fact that there is terrible genocide, children are being killed and the scenes are horrific, when will it actually do something that will force the hand of the Israeli state to back off and stop the genocide? We have a legal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...than I have. If it was within my power, the Israeli ambassador would have been put out of here long ago. The Government could do that but it is refusing to do it. I love the talk but we need action. Children are dying, as we speak, as a result of famine. Places are being bombed as we speak, and we face the potential of an absolute catastrophe in Rafah. There is that potential still,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...health workers who have personally signed a letter asking the Taoiseach to, please, do something about Rafah. The other is from Mothers Against Genocide and asks that something be done about the children, because this is a war on children. Finally, 15 May is Nakba Day. The Taoiseach knows what that means. We have requested that the Palestinian flag be flown at Leinster House on...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...House at the moment. We need people to stand up to say that what is going on here is scaremongering, that is, scaremongering that men of colour who come to this country are a danger to women and children. That is a huge factor in why communities say they are worried and frightened. Yes, there is a shortage of resources and houses and a shortage of dentists and doctors. However, if any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ..., confusing and unfair system. I will give one instance, and I am picking up on a thing that comes to my attention regularly. Parents are penalised for wanting to spend more time with their children, if the children attend a school or use a childcare service. If parents collect their children early on occasion, it can trigger a massively convoluted attendance rule malarkey that not only...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his plans to increase childcare places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19265/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...reported that they have severe waiting lists for childcare places. After housing, it is probably borne out statistically that this is one of the biggest political issues for most people who have children. Often both parents have to work to afford childcare. However, if they cannot get a place, they cannot keep the work and if they cannot keep the work, their rent or mortgage and God...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a publicly owned childcare service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19266/24]

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...as rent or mortgage, utilities, groceries and childcare, with little or no money left for social activities, savings or emergencies. Those social activities include sports, leisure and external education for children. We need appropriate Government intervention and implementation of price controls, especially when it comes to the necessities of life. This is one of the necessities of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will abolish childcare fees in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his accommodation plans for international protection applicant refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19263/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (23 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide advice to the mother of a young child (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for an assessment of need for almost eight months with no indication of when they will be assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17745/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Elections (23 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...employed at the grade of general dental surgeon: 1597, is eligible to run for local election; if there is a list of specific grades which are ‘designated by order of the Minister for Health and Children’; if so, to outline what they are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...from this country. I ask the Tánaiste not to tell me we need to keep diplomatic channels open. Diplomatic channels have done nothing to save the lives of thousands of innocent Gazan women and children. They are like fish in a pond when it comes to the onslaught of the Israelis, who are shooting and brutally killing them day and night. Netanyahu can comfortably say that nothing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: We do not know whether the hardware being used to kill women and children in Gaza is being brought through the airport. It is a disgraceful compromise in the context of our position of neutrality to allow that not just to happen but to happen more frequently.

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...displaced within their own countries, such as in Sudan and South Sudan, 36 million people are refugees, and 43.3 million of the total number of migrants displaced both internally and externally are children. If we are to deal with this issue by saying we will batten down the hatches and do like Trump did, we build an effective wall around Europe. This is what this piece in the jigsaw...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...or spoken up against a single policy that has led us to the biggest housing catastrophe in the history of the State. Never once has the Taoiseach spoken against the policies that have put 4,000 children into homeless accommodation, migrants into tents on the streets and hundreds of thousands on waiting lists. We have never heard the Taoiseach say that. Why should we believe the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Facilities (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 1108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a formal report on how it is known that asbestos is present in the Royal City of Dublin Hospital building (details supplied); and if there are other defects with the building. [14296/24]