Results 1-12 of 12 for revert speaker:Bríd Smith

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will the CRU revert to me properly in written format in respect of my questions?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: ..., Tourism and Sport if a transport provider (details supplied) is still operating Saturday schedules on Monday-to-Friday services on some routes; the reason this is the case; when this will revert to full service; if he will request the National Transport Authority to provide figures for the total number of cancelled scheduled departures by the provider across all of its services from...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...many areas, in the belief that workers must wait. It only took a global pandemic to reverse that particular cut brought in by the Labour Party, though I am sure the current Administration will try to revert back to that position as soon as it gets the chance. Many a public sector worker will have an ironic laugh at the fact that the Labour Party is now championing a mandatory sick pay...

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...legislation in place to do that. A temporary circular was introduced to cover those people. This allowed them to apply to their head of section for permission to stay until they are 66. They had to revert to the lowest point of the non-PPP scale as opposed to the relevant point on the non-PPP scale, subject to hardship grants, which they would have to write in and apply for. Such...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...way so they were training them back and at the same time, preserving the wildlife. He referred to the method involved by using a beautiful Irish word. I would love to know more about that. Why do we not revert to that sort of maintenance of our environment instead of saying "Here you go. Off you pop and slash and burn"? It is not good enough and it does not represent what is needed in...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...at all. I mention the Burren and the exercise undertaken there because they were forced to listen to the farmers and do the sort of things that the farmers required. It is working. We need to revert to looking at a different attitude to nature and the environment and to approach the farming community with a clear agenda to enlist them as guardians and protectors of our wildlife, and to...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...How much can one say about this issue, which we have been debating for years? Women's health has waited long enough. Could we please accept the proposal from Solidarity–People Before Profit to revert to the original decision of the Business Committee, that is, to allow for ten-minute slots?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...'clock deadline on whatever date it was, Ryanair had complied? Knowing Ryanair as Ms Barton does and in light of the earlier comment made that it is sometimes easier to work with it than having to revert to the law, does she not think it is strange that if the regulation is so wide open to interpretation, it jumped into action and applied the regulation before the deadline? If it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...is about being a public service, why does Bus Éireann keep referring to it as a product? Expressway is a product to Bus Éireann, not a service. We must change that language. If we do not, we will revert to the scenario mentioned by another member of a swathe of towns, villages and less-populated areas being left without a service, rather than a product. That matters to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...special case for the NTA to get funding from Europe in order that it might put more money into Irish Rail to help achieve the similar outcomes to those already realised. I would be very interested in seeing Irish Rail revert to considering perhaps the reopening of disused railway lines that go to Donegal and Kerry and from Waterford to Cork. What a big difference that could make to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of repealing the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation and public service pay reverting to 2009 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13013/16]