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Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 5:In page 28, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:"(11) The Minister shall reserve a place on the board of the SEAI for a member of the Environmental Pillar, to be appointed by the Minister with reference to all appropriate bodies and agencies.".".

Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 6:In page 31, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:"(c) The Agency shall publish or commission a report on the impact of the bio fuels levy on—(i) indigenous production of sustainable biofuels, (ii) its impact on reducing the overall usage of fossil fuels in road transport, and (iii) its impact on the food and land needs of the developing world."."....

Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am quite sure the EU has resources that are far greater than ours in terms of carrying out this kind of research and producing reports of this nature. Can our officials, scientists or NORA extrapolate what will be the impact on Ireland from the evidence contained in the EU report or how it can influence or direct our policy decisions or changes we need to make? Rather than just having the...

Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I accept the explanation and withdraw the amendment.

Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I will read something to the Minister of State and see if he recognises it. It was echoed in the Minister's plan yesterday and it states:Off-balance mechanisms will be used to maximise financial opportunities and leverage other assets available to the State, including land. Under the strategy's governance structure, a dedicated work stream will be established from within the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 45. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to ensure that the appropriate State bodies tasked with safeguarding the rights of workers are appropriately staffed and resourced to combat attempts by employers to break labour laws that seek to provide workers with basic protections. [22763/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned at the increasing number of workers being asked by employers to sign contracts which designate them as self-employed and not as employees who have statutory rights. [22764/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 58. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to ensure that any employer in receipt of contracts from the State for the provision of certain services is compliant with the labour laws of the country which afford protections to workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22766/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Data (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware of a recent report that describes Ireland as a low wage economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22765/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (20 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff currently working in the Workplace Relations Commission and the numbers that worked in the previously named Labour Relations Commission and Employment Appeals Tribunal and associated bodies. [22767/16]

European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training: Motion (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: When I read through this and all it implies, I realise that if I was running a right-wing State that wanted to batten down the hatches, control workers' rights and stop refugees from receiving the support and shelter they deserve, I would probably be in favour of CEPOL training my police force because it would be watching all of the left-wing and radical people who want to change society and...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: In supporting the amendment I want to reiterate the points that have been made and say, as I did when the Bill first came before the Dáil, that it is very difficult to understand how a Bill shaped by An Garda Síochána, which is responsible for the area of justice, comes to the Department of Health. If the Department of Health is proposing a measure the Garda believe will help...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: First Stage (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht do dhéanamh socrú maidir le rialáil a dhéanamh ar channabas atá lena úsáid chun críocha íocshláinte agus chun na críche sin do bhunú an Údaráis um Rialáil Cannabais; do dhéanamh socrú maidir le soláthar cannabais atá lena...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: First Stage (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: If we pass this Bill without the amendment, it will be legislation that sets out to criminalise people who have a monkey on their backs, so to speak. We will also give them a second monkey, as it were, by telling them it is not a health issue, that we are not offering the services or even offering to give them back the services the previous Government slashed to bits, and that all we offer...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 500 after-school child care scheme, ASCC, places taken up now that the eligibility for 52 weeks is ending; the measures put in place to provide child care for these children at the same affordable rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22963/16]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Having listened to the Minister's previous response, I will probably ask her to meet more women for a different reason. She is probably browned off answering questions about child care schemes and the various ways of funding them. My question is specifically about the after-school child care scheme that was introduced when the previous Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection cut...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I raise this because there is a cohort of parents caught in an anomaly. They are the people I mentioned who suffered badly due to the cuts in the one-parent family payment. There is a back-to-work family dividend, which has been gradually cut when they have gone back to work. Is the Minister aware that in June of this year 8,100 lone parents lost €14.90 per week, per child because...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I appreciate the Minister answering, comprehensively and at length, the various questions, or sometimes the same question asked in different ways about child care , supports, etc., but the Government is not stepping up to the plate. Several other members of the Government, such as the Ministers for Social Protection, Finance and Education and Skills, should be involved. There has to be a...