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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is precisely what I mean. If this Bill is passed, the Minister of State, or the next one, has it within his gift to say to a company that it is not meeting the environmental standards that are required, because the licensing regime allows the Minister to stop companies proceeding to the next stage on the basis of their environmental record. If the Bill is passed, it would be looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: There is no such thing as a climate emergency. Climate change is not real. Some 350 parts of CO2 per million is not the safe level in the atmosphere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: If in 20 years' time, gas or oil is found and it is brought to the point of being able to be burned in this country, does the Minister of State not think that allowing these companies to pump billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere would not breach our emissions limits and the whole idea of declaring a climate emergency and trying to deal with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It does not make sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: There was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Bills Office not the Ceann Comhairle's office wrote to me saying this does not need a money message.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: If I can help to answer Deputy Sherlock's question, the criteria for the money message, as I understand it, have already been set out by the Ceann Comhairle in his very considered letter. On four points, he is allowing a money message, but not on one very serious point, which is the research from the library service, which would be predictive of what we might have gained in the future. He...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I feel that I have to respond to this accusation that I ignored the question of the future and the reliance that the State will have, after 2030, on some level of usage of gas. I have only used the Minister of State's argument with him. He says that by 2030, we will have 70% of our energy from renewables. Where does the other 30% come from? At present, we import 50% of our gas needs. If,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (13 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address matters (details supplied) relating to applications for licences. [24690/19]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: In the context of the debate, people will vividly remember Joe Duffy's series of programmes in April on the experiences of women in maternity hospitals. It received responses from many hundreds of women who contacted the show and had negative and often harrowing experiences of giving birth in Irish hospitals. It was one of the largest responses the "Liveline" show had ever had, with many...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Yes, boss.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the women and their families for their courage and determination in the face of such adversity. I also acknowledge their representatives who have done some great work on this. When Dr. Scally last reported to the Dáil, he said that he supported the outsourcing of the CervicalCheck screening. Dr. Scally defended the standards and practices in the laboratories that he had...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister indicated that the tests from Ireland will now be read twice. Will we pay twice? If they are read twice, will we pay double?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister find that out?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I refer to whether the State will have to pay the laboratories time and again for certainty, to be sure to be sure.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: In the case of the Morrissey judgment, will the Minister confirm that the award made to her will not be affected by the appeal the State is making against the judgment? There seems to be some confusion in that regard between the Minister and the Taoiseach.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Minister the following question earlier but he might be able to answer it now. For women to find the tribunal adequate, attractive or suitable, will he give them an assurance that if they make an application to the tribunal, and they then go through chemotherapy or other forms of therapy and enter respite, they can re-enter a case to the tribunal if their cancer recurs?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It may be the same cancer, however.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is very important and I request that the assurance be given to women. The Minister may believe that it is a different case but if the same cancer occurs as a consequence of what they faced, it is not a different issue and they should be able to return to the tribunal. If the Minister cannot give that guarantee, will he agree with me there might be a lower uptake for the tribunal?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the 221 results and the laboratories from whence they came, can the Minister give me some idea when we will get the answer to that question? Is it coming from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists or in some other way?