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Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is a cover-up.

Other Questions: Offshore Exploration Licences (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to issue new licences undertaken or leased for the exploration of oil or gas here in the coming months; if he will suspend such licences and so on until Dáil Éireann and the relevant Oireachtas committee have examined and passed the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate...

Other Questions: Offshore Exploration Licences (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I asked a similar question in February after the House debated the climate emergency measures Bill. Will the Minister commit to not issuing any new licences between now and the passing of the Bill through its various Stages? All issuing of licences for exploration offshore should be suspended in order to give the climate emergency measures Bill a chance to get through the Houses.

Other Questions: Offshore Exploration Licences (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister of State but he may as well have just copied and pasted the last answer he gave in February. He may have done so as I have just looked back at the transcript. Things have changed and at the time, the Minister of State told us the Bill was useless and would need a money message. It is not at all useless and it does not need a money message, which is why we are...

Other Questions: Offshore Exploration Licences (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: We will have these arguments in more detail at the committee level. I appeal to the Minister and the Minister of State to end any issuing of offshore exploration licences for fossil fuels between now and when the Bill progresses. It would be undemocratic not to do so as they have had a signal from the House that there is a cross-party support for the measure. More important, we need to...

Other Questions: Offshore Exploration Licences (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: If the planet heats, there will be no security either.

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Can we get a copy of the Minister's script?

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I salute the family and in particular Lucia. Anyone who knows her is completely gobsmacked by her intelligence, decency, honesty, absolute determination and her deep love for her son. If the Minister has not yet met her, believe me when I say that she will not go away until this is brought to a conclusion. This is a tragic case of the failure of State and its agencies to protect one of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will commission a report on the feasibility of the remunicipalisation of the household waste collection service in view of the rising costs, poorer services and the increased difficulties in achieving sustainable waste management under the current privatised system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: Despite the contempt the Taoiseach is showing Deputies for raising issues to do with inquiries that are ongoing, I wish to refer to the scoping exercise being conducted by Dr. Scally. Along with all other health spokespersons in the House, I sat down with the Minister, Deputy Harris, four or five weeks ago. We were given a commitment that the scoping exercise would be quick and that it...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: The clinical laboratory technicians told us that it was a simple answer but the interim report from the inquiry does not contain such an answer. In addition, there will be a delay until the end of the summer. Women are dying while this is happening. I do not think it is fair to the women who are dying from cancer to delay this any further. There must be an investigation into why it is...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is contemptuous of us.

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to come back to what Deputy Gino Kenny said at the outset about the Minister's accusation that he and others jumped on some kind of a bandwagon and that the accusations of a whitewash etc. should be withdrawn. I was not here for his statement but I note he is asking Deputies McDonald, Ó Laoghaire, Gino Kenny, McGrath and other Deputies to withdraw their statements. It has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate the delays and service cancellations affecting Dublin Bus services as a result of traffic congestion and the operation of the Luas cross city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25410/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public and civil service workers whose pension entitlements are subject to convergence criteria, that is, whose workplace pensions are reduced when they reach the State retirement age. [24432/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount by which public and civil service workers' pensions subject to convergence have been reduced in each of the years since 2010. [24433/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services Funding (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding which will be provided in 2018 and 2019 to implement the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act 2018 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24477/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 688. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 381 and 382 of 15 May 2018, the laboratories which were the subject of site visits in 2011 and 2014. [24693/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move the cervical screening process to a HPV test; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many clinicians internationally (details supplied) recommend co-testing pap plus HPV; if consideration has been given to same; the costs and so on of co-testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25049/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the scientific evidence and the bodies from which evidence has been gathered that has assisted him to arrive at the decision to opt for a HPV only based test in the future. [25050/18]