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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: On a point of order, will the Chairman be observing a pecking order after Senator O'Reilly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask Mr. Smyth about the business of the process itself. I note "process auditor" is Mr. Smyth's title. One of the most extraordinary statements I heard throughout the whole controversy was when the Taoiseach stated that the problem with the arrangement or meetings, whatever they were, the 18 meetings between the then Minister, Deputy Naughten, and Granahan McCourt, the dinners he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Why then did the Taoiseach think there was a problem that the former Minister did not have dinner with the other two, and that he only had dinner with one of the bidders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is quoted in the media as saying it. I think he was in Cavan at some event when he said it. The Taoiseach stated that the main problem is that the then Minister had dinner with one bidder and not all three of them. Is Mr. Smyth concerned that that has tainted the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: But he did not have dinner with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach was wrong then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I will find the quote for Mr. Smyth and send it to him. Mr. Smyth states he believes the process is not tainted by the meetings between Mr. McCourt and the former Minister. Is the process at all tainted, although maybe not by the meetings? Most people who vote and put us in this House would look at this and ask, "In the name of God, what sort of tangled web of corruption and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Smyth is a process auditor and I am asking him about the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: This has happened. It may be ongoing but it has happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Lastly, at any stage was the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, questioned by Mr. Smyth as to his role in this because the Minister of State set up the meeting between McCourt and Naughten in Clare where they had dinner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. Smyth think Deputy Breen had a role in any of this, other than setting up the dinner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Smyth.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is renowned for his rhetoric to the effect that he will deliver for those who get up early, such as the low and middle income earners of this country. At the weekend we learned from an ESRI analysis of budget 2019 that a decision not to link changes in tax and benefit rates to expected wage growth will reduce the average disposable household income by 0.7%. It was said that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will the Taoiseach commit to linking changes in tax and benefit rates to expected wage growth to deliver what he says he will?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am pointing out an anomaly in Government policy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: Their incomes will decrease.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: This is what he calls the squeezed middle.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach rejects the ESRI report.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Boyd Barrett. Last Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to ask the Minister for Health the same question about ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital and I got no answer. I do not think it is good enough that the public, especially women, are, until the 11th hour, when the deal was supposed to be signed off on on Friday, not being...