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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (6 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to end pay inequality in the teaching profession in view of the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retainment; the timeframe in which he expects to achieve equal pay for equal work for all teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5983/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials will meet with the parents and teachers of a school (details supplied) to discuss the crisis in facilities and capacity facing the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5982/18]

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time". Although I will not be sure until I hear the speakers to my left, this may be an historic day for Members in that we will be able to get a climate emergency measure over the line of Second Stage. I will explain the purpose of the Bill to those in the Chamber and those who may be listening outside. First, it is to stop all future...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I was not surprised to hear the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, and the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, state this measure is unrealistic and not credible and that it amounts to posturing and gesture politics. I was expecting that but not the lack of a sense of emergency. They say that our day will come, this will happen and that we should debate it over a long period. The point is being...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (8 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens Assembly (8 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will to take to ensure the Citizens' Assembly recommendation regarding the availability of contraceptives is implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6282/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (8 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to retain and recruit front-line staff in the health services, including nurses; the number of nursing staff needed in public national hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6283/18]

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sure the Minister read the article by Fintan O'Toole at the time the Tuam babies scandal broke last year in which he said:The abusive relationship between church, State and society may, like the dead babies that have haunted us in recent weeks, be buried beneath the surface of our postmodern globalised reality. But its consequences still lurk in our bloodstream and until we understand...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the vote in Dáil Éireann on the Petroleum and other Minerals Development (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2017, if no further licences, undertakings or leases for fossil fuel exploration will be awarded until the issues are dealt with at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Despite the Minister's man flu, I want him to address this very important question. Last July, quietly and without any notice to our committee or any notice on the Department's website, the Minister signed off on exploration licences for the Druid Drumbeg exploration field which is estimated to have 5 billion barrels of offshore oil. Last week we passed Second Stage of a climate emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I remind the Minister of State that the Solidarity-People Before Profit Bill is, in fact, a climate emergency Bill. We call it a climate emergency because that is exactly what it is, and the vast majority of Deputies in this House agreed with that - if they did not, they might try to explain why not. There is a real worry here that we are not getting what this means. If the Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Gas emissions do not have a nationality but unless we begin to acknowledge the science and say this must remain in the ground, we are codding ourselves, and being on this committee, having a national mitigation plan and anything else we do will be absolutely meaningless.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I would like the Minister of State to comment on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Even the licence issued last year that represents 5 billion barrels would result, potentially, in releasing the equivalent of all our greenhouse gas emissions for the next quarter of a century. How in the name of God does that make sense while, at the same time, we are supposed to be tackling climate change?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is no doubt that it will not change the usage, and I never said it would, but it might give a kick up the backside to this Government to get on with developing renewables and alternatives because we cannot continue to rely on fossil fuels. Last year I asked whether there is an automatic entitlement for these companies to renew licences and continue exploration, and the Minister got...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is no security in a planet that is overheating.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: In theory, I should wholeheartedly welcome and support the Bill because it claims to improve the lot of vulnerable, low paid workers who are grossly exploited by unscrupulous employers. Tens of thousands of workers are not informed of their terms and conditions, their hours are not notified to them in advance and they work under low-hour and zero-hour contracts. I do not know how they...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request a review of the commitment contract his Department has with a company (details supplied) relating to the 300,000 homes removed from the NBP in view of that company's withdrawal from the NBP competition; if this contract can be revoked by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7479/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Procurement Contracts (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department has taken or will take in the future to ensure that companies competing for State procurement of services, such as the national broadband plan, do not collude with each other in the bidding and competitive tendering process to the detriment of the State's finances; the penalties a company might...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the input his Department has had in the framing of the national development plan with regard to ensuring the viability of the rural post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/18]