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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: My very last point is on the retired workers themselves. I have introduced a Bill to amend the Industrial Relations Act to give retired workers the right to be represented where their pensions have been interfered with. It is shocking to think that they can say nothing, as happened during the austerity years to all our public sector workers, particularly those in the semi-States. In goes...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: As my mother used to say, brave are the chancers. You are some chancer.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: This is something I have been talking about on behalf of various workers since I came in in 2016 and as workers' spokesperson for People Before Profit. There has been a real war on pensions, particularly defined benefit pensions, over the past ten years or so. The narrative is that we are living too long, and we cannot afford this, so we have to tackle it. Therefore, instead of longevity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [15187/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [15186/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [15185/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: We echo the call for a debate on the European migrant pact, obviously for different reasons. We do think we have to have the debate. The issue I want to raise is the question of the use of Shannon Airport by the US military. I was there on Sunday at a protest. There is great concern in the country about the escalating and increased use of Shannon Airport by US military flights. As the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not accuse the Taoiseach of not doing anything. He failed to regulate-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Marie O'Shea has said courage is needed. Will the Taoiseach use his famous slogan about new energy to implement a review immediately?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not think it is fair to frame the history of what happened to the Bill as there somehow being a minority voting for it. Only approximately nine Deputies abstained that day. There was not a huge number of Deputies abstaining. I want to pick up on a few things the Taoiseach said. The 28-day limit is really the crucial thing in terms of how fatal foetal anomalies are treated and in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I repeat my contention that the Government is sitting on its hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: On the Taoiseach's first day of Leaders' Questions, it is quite a coincidence that he is being questioned by both the previous speaker and me on the abortion legislation. Last night's programme exposed the ongoing denial of abortion rights to a significant number of women in this country six years after repeal. It was interesting that it opened with a clip of the Taoiseach in Dublin Castle...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to provide a pre-registration VAT exempt status for qualified and accredited members of an organisation (details supplied) and seek to rectify the inequities arising from the delay in establishing the statutory register; if he accepts that this proposal aligns with established practices and ensures that fair treatment prevails in the interim;...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 266. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the next ERO pay increase for security officers who remain the lowest paid sector and who have had just one incremental pay increase in almost five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16758/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024 (No.22 of 2024) has ignored the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands' pre-legislative scrutiny recommendation number 15, which states that the investment funds be prohibited from investing in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is self-employed and has made sufficient contributions to qualify for a State pension (contributory) when reaching 66 years of age, could retire from their occupation at 65 years and claim jobseeker's benefit for the year before reaching 66 years in the same way as other workers can under present...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 4,822 non-coursing greyhounds who were registered on Rásaíocht Con éireann's RCETS at microchipping stage, but who have never been raced on an RCE-licensed track (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Unions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a students’ union (details supplied) recently launched a petition calling for the Government to provide free period products in all higher education institutions, which has now almost 3,000 signatures; if he will commit to increasing funding in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16323/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: The BusConnects plan is ploughing ahead across Dublin. We in People Before Profit truly welcome improved public transport. I always advocate for free, frequent public transport as a means to alleviate traffic problems and to help climate initiatives. The Minister for Transport disagrees. Having said that, there are serious problems with how BusConnects is being implemented, mostly because...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Department, which takes a hands-off approach, says that the NTA deals with these matters and it does not.