Results 361-380 of 8,056 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider commissioning a new consultation process in line with the Government’s Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making regarding Waterway Ireland’s proposed revisions to the canals by-laws, in light of the profound and highly disruptive changes which these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to increasing the carer’s allowance income disregard from €750 to €1,000 for couples and from €350 to €500 for single carers, with subsequent increases in the following years. [42872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if there are plans to provide an additional payment to those diagnosed with coeliac disease who have to follow a strict gluten free diet as prescribed by their doctor, and the substantial extra costs that entails when in receipt of a social welfare payment; if she will provide advice as to what those on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding in budget 2024 to extend the national treatment purchase fund to include timely assessment for both child and adult psychological services, as committed to in the programme for Government, and extend it to include occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy until backlogs are cleared; if he will fully fund...

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

Bríd Smith: That is a new definition.

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

Bríd Smith: We do not get an answer to the whataboutery. You have not answered-----

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

Bríd Smith: You still regard rifle training as non-lethal.

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

Bríd Smith: So you said in the media.

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: The bottom line is clear. You are stretching the meaning of neutrality beyond its limits.

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

Bríd Smith: I would like to ask the Tánaiste if he could outline for the Dáil the detail of the Defence Forces vision statement in Strategic Framework: Transformation of the Defence Forces, and if he would refer to No. 42 on page 12, the new Defence Forces vision statement that is to be developed and published. In his understanding of the vision, would it have any impact on Irish neutrality?...

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

Bríd Smith: If I could expand on the question, I am sure the cultural changes the Tánaiste talks about are all that he touched on, but he will notice that a lot of us were alarmed when he was in Ukraine that he announced that Irish forces would be providing rifle training. Hitherto, casualty care training was provided with the German army, and demining and explosives clearance were provided with...

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

Bríd Smith: I agree that the biggest obstacle facing the Palestinian people is defending their territory against attack by Israeli army forces. The biggest challenge facing the people of Yemen is to defend themselves against the attack by the Saudi army. We are seeing similar aggressive attacks happening around the world, into which the description of the UN charter the Tánaiste just quoted would...

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

Bríd Smith: When the Minister moved the amendment he painted a very rosy picture, and why would he not? Anybody who saw the demonstration last week outside the Dáil, which was not by a long shot only providers as there were hundreds of workers there, and listened to parents would have to recognise that there is a crisis in our childcare system. Many crèches have closed. The Minister said the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of how the €500,000 funding that was made available in 2009 for a memorial to honour all survivors of all State-run industrial schools is to be used; if she will outline details of the proposed memorial; to provide a timescale for when it will be in place; if she will acknowledge that survivors are eager to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a company (details supplied) has signed up to the core funding model for childcare, and in doing so, agreed to freeze fees at 2021 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if recent moves by a childcare provider (details supplied) are a breach of any undertaking given not to increase child care fees under the core funding model; if the attempt by the company to increase childcare fees for 2023/2024 by designating the previous year's (2022/2023) fees as an introductory fee...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: Today is International Safe Abortion Day. Last night's healthy vote on moving forward on the safe access zones is to be welcomed. International Safe Abortion Day has huge relevance for many countries, including Malawi which I visited during the summer as part of a delegation to look at reproductive rights of women and girls. In one of the poorest countries in the world, crippled by IMF...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Offshore Exploration (28 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials in his Department have held any meetings with a company (details supplied) or any other individuals or companies representing another company in relation to the prospect off Corrib, also referred to as the Inishkea gas prospect since January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: There is a terrible legacy of this State relying on charity to deliver care for the most vulnerable sections of our society, particularly those with disability. We have perpetuated a situation where 5,000 workers in 30 organisations have been forced to serve strike notice of three weeks on this date. This is an indefinite strike in the section 39 sector. I want to make a very simple...