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Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The fact that the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, has legislation on this issue before the House indicates that a Cabinet concern that defined benefit schemes are being treated recklessly by employers. Previously, AIB, Aer Lingus and BT unilaterally moved away from defined benefit schemes. That is why various parties in the House have legislation to try to control reckless companies that,...

Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I had a phone call this morning from pensioners who live in Claddagh Court in Ballyfermot. It is a council-run facility which houses a few hundred pensioners. The council, as a matter of policy, turns off the heating every night. Many of these pensioners will be leaving their ovens on and keeping them open in order to keep their flats warm so as well as the issues that have been raised by...

Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am particularly concerned about fuel poverty.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Given that the Taoiseach spends so much money on spin, I wonder if he could get a few bob to learn how to answer the question. Will he, please, give us a guarantee that no old person will die or get very ill because of the cold snap? We need an answer to the question of whether he will guarantee that they will receive extra fuel allowance payments. Will there be an instruction to community...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is spending money to protect the Apple tax from being taken back.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria that local authorities will apply in operating the new home loan scheme announced under Rebuilding Ireland; the funding available for this scheme; the projected number of loans that will be issued under the scheme over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9719/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed breakdown of the number of private, for profit and speculatively built homes to be built under the Project Ireland 2040 development plan; the number to be built by local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9720/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the refurbishment of the Stepaside Garda station; and the timeframe for its opening. [9737/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to open a Garda station in the Cherrywood area of Dublin; and the details of those plans. [9608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 427. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 809 of 16 January 2018, the number of locum clinical staff in general who were not qualified for their position; the number of locum staff who do not meet the criteria for filling the post they are covering on a permanent basis; the number of locum positions there have been over the past ten years; the periods of time...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Project Ireland 2040 (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 582. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposed spend under Project Ireland 2040 for climate action measures from his Department; the specific projects envisioned under climate action in the plan; and the breakdown of funding for these between State and private investment. [9735/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 583. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget for climate action since 2016 in his Department; and the specific capital investment programmes that have been funded by his Department or other departments under climate action in each of these years. [9736/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I have a few questions about the environmental impact of biomass and biofuels. Obviously, I am trying to learn from everybody here as well. I am not being dogmatic about this but is there not an argument that the use of biomass and biofuels can have an impact on other parts of the planet? Alternatively, have things moved for the better? I remember quite clearly being in Egypt prior to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does brown bin waste also go to Poolbeg?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Where will it go?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (28 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Bus has removed its city centre discount fare; if this decision was made by Dublin Bus or by the National Transport Authority; if he was notified of this move; the way in which such a step is in keeping with stated policy of encouraging persons to use public transport especially in city centre areas suffering from...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Issues (28 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times since the introduction of the development application tracking system in the NPWS that planning permission has been granted to develop a built structure in an area which is a designated area. [10334/18]

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Níl.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Tá brón orm nach bhfuil mé líofa a dhóthain le mo argóint a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge. I am worried about the referendum on the eighth amendment and getting the legislation through the Houses on time. We have consistently made the argument that we need to ensure that we get an early referendum and I know the Taoiseach agrees with me on that. We have been...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Happy International Women's Day to everyone here and beyond, but in particular to the women of the Magdalen laundries, the subject of my question to the Tánaiste. Seven women of the Magdalen laundries have died since the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, made his apology to the House, and there is no sign of the redress being passed to these women. They have been treated...