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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: And then have the argument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: I respectfully ask anybody who is opposed to the amendment to tell me why he or she is opposed to it. If members are not opposed to it, that is great as we will pass it with a large majority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: I will say a quick word about the amendments. The replacement of the word "poor" with "appalling" is significant because it is in chapter 1 which is the preamble in the whole context in which we are having this long debate and scrutiny of what is going on and how we adjust to climate change. If we are to be really honest and show leadership, to young people in particular, we have to say we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: About which amendment is the Deputy talking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is not a conspiracy; it is the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is not fair. I accepted lots of measures. I have accepted so many it is unbelievable. A lot of the stuff I wanted was changed by way of the advisers meeting each other and saying, "Get that out and put that in." I am coming back to it now and asking for contextual changes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: I fully accept-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: I publicly apologise for the impression given to the advisers that I somehow disrespect them; I do not at all. My intent was to show that the advisers are there to reflect what those whom they are advising want in the report. I do not think any of them would disagree with that. They have to reflect what the parties on whose behalf they are working want in the report, as my adviser has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: Both delegations finished their presentations on a point with which I agree, namely, that we do not have enough data on the scale of the challenge we face. When Department officials appeared before the committee to discuss this issue it was clear that they had not done enough research and their access to various employment sectors was not sufficient to allow them to tell us how great the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: Before we move on to the CIF, could we just respond to what the IBEC representatives have just said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the question of definitions, I find what Ms Murphy has just said interesting. She started by saying that the definition of "employee"must be flexible to allow it to morph and change as circumstances change but that goes to the heart of the problem. IBEC wants to have it every way. It wants to change the definition to suit an employer and then argue that it is to suit the self-employed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: That sounds like a flexible definition to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: There was an interesting moment when Mr. O'Connell was trying to describe what happened over a period of time and why we have more people self-employed in the industry. He referred to a severe recession and stated that workers became more reliant on themselves and went down the route of seeking jobs on a self-employed basis and that we now have an industry based on that system. Let us be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: What about Cork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: A small bit in Limerick, Cork and Galway. There is a boom.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: We will ensure that the legislation does not unwittingly capture them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018 has been in committee since last October. Today, for the fifth day, 500 paramedic and ambulance crews are out on strike, with a sixth day scheduled for 10 April. The Government has appointed a new chief executive officer to the HSE, Mr. Paul Reid, who will earn €300,000 a year, a very handsome sum indeed. That should enable him, at the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: He is getting a very decent pay packet.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (2 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to lower fares to encourage uptake of public transport in relation to BusConnects plans; if he has reviewed the increase in fares across public transport since 2011; his views on whether the present fare structures may be discouraging uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15153/19]