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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of public services cards issued before and since July 2018 to date. [38610/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a report is forthcoming from the Data Protection Commission regarding biometric data; and if so, when it will be published. [38611/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Connolly did her best.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is an answer.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I never knew until this week that one could take a flight from Dublin to New York via Damascus. However, that is clearly what the Taoiseach did when he arrived at the UN summit to announce that he favoured banning the exploration of fossil fuels, or one fossil fuel, namely, oil. That is not possible. The Taoiseach received flawed scientific advice from the Climate Change Advisory Council...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: Not flawed science.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is flawed and not scientific.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister could allow the Bill to be passed.

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I will start by reading from the report of the Data Protection Commissioner. It states, "The law does not confer power on a specified body to insist upon the production of a PSC for the purposes of a transaction with it where a person does not already have one." This means that if a person is conducting a transaction with such a body, that person does not legally have to agree to have the...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have two questions. The first one probably has a yes-no answer. Has the Minister or anyone in her Department been lobbied by any of the giant technology companies on this, or as the Taoiseach put it regarding other instances of lobbying, "had a cup of coffee with them"? Perhaps they sat over a cup of coffee and chatted with them.

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I refer to any of the giant technology companies. Have they lobbied the Minister or anyone in her Department, had meetings or coffee with them, or whatever way one might describe it? Since the Government is hell-bent on legally challenging this report, has it estimated the cost of such a challenge?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contracts for the provision of the JobPath programme will be renewed; and when a decision on the matter will be made. [38806/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the JobPath provider Seetec is issuing notices to jobseekers detailing its policy on tackling radicalism; if jobseekers have been referred to her Department or An Garda Síochána in respect of same; the number of claimants that have been sanctioned or interviewed on foot of the concerns of Seetec relating...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy regarding the upcoming EU meeting to ratify the fourth list of projects of common interests; his plans to support the building of LNGs here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38926/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: The discussion is very interesting and I particularly welcome the evidence from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the ESRI. I want to go back to what Deputy Chambers said earlier about priority recommendation No. 3 from chapter 6, on which we worked long and hard hours to get agreement. The recommendation was that the Government would conduct a fuel poverty review. Will the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am still not getting an answer. It is problematic. I have asked the Department these questions in writing and I have got nothing back but obfuscation. Is the Department going to conduct a review of fuel poverty in this country or not? It has not done it and we know that. Is it going to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I did not ask the ESRI; I asked the Department. We gave this recommendation as a climate action committee, across all parties, and it has been utterly and totally ignored. Yet, the recommendation to increase the carbon tax was contingent on that review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: I will make one comment. It is utterly frustrating. I have heard from the ESRI, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, National Traveller MABS and Age Action Ireland. I have seen their material. What the Department was asked to do was to use all their empirical evidence and material and present us with a report. It has failed to do that and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: And the loopholes that go with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Tax: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: He will sort out all that is needed in public transport, home retrofitting and just transition with €180 million. Fair play to him. Hats off to Paschal for achieving all of that.