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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Immigrant Investor Programme (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: 286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 8 October 2020, the reason he has not provided a copy of the submission as requested; and if he is not in a position to do same, the reason. [30492/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Carroll for his presentation. There has been quite a lot of criticism of the language of the Bill, as it is frequently very vague. There are many questions as to why that is. For example, it uses the phrase "have regard to" 11 times and "may" 43 times. In comparison, the Bills that have been issued in New Zealand and Scotland use much more determined language. Instead of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is a form of wishful thinking. There is no evidence that technologies can create a carbon capturing storage. The Bill does not deal with non-territorial emissions. Does that imply we can import emissions from abroad, in other words, liquified natural gas or LNG, which is not necessarily fracked? Does that still leave the door open for the importation of forms of LNG?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I wish to look at the things listed that the Minister must have regard to when deciding on policy. There is a litany of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: There is a litany of 25 issues the Minister must have regard to in deciding policy including long-term competitiveness of the State, the special economic and social role of agriculture, best policy and value for money. I wish to ask about the distinctive character of biogenic methane emissions. Could Mr. Carroll please explain that in some detail, if he has time? There is quite an argument...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: My question was not to ask Mr. Carroll for the distinction between CO2 and biogenic methane. My question was to ask him to show me where the IPCC report states it should be treated differently, because it actually does not say that. He has treated it differently by saying that among other things the Government has to take account of the distinctive character of biogenic methane. It has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is probably the best chance I will get in such a short time to scrutinise the Bill. It is very difficult to do our job properly in such a short time. I will accept a note from Mr. Carroll. I wanted to correct him that my question was not asking him to distinguish between them but to show me from where in the IPCC report he drew the conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is ok.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: There is an ugly and frenzied rush to push through legislation on the mother and baby homes. Imagine the optics of this for the hundreds and thousands of victims and their families that legislation is to be amended by Members of this House before 2 o'clock tomorrow when it has not even passed through the Seanad. This is utterly disrespectful to the Senators. The Tánaiste ticked me off...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: The question was why is it being rushed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: That is not true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is not true that they will disappear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Do not tell lies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: He needs to retract his statement that the records will disappear. They will not disappear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Do not seal the records.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: It is not the right thing.

Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Restoration to Order Paper (20 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil, shall be restored to the Order Paper at Second Stage.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: We will fully support this motion but I note that it is not the first motion of its kind that we have supported. This issue came up again and again in the term of the previous Dáil but nothing seems to have changed. I thank the Deputies who moved the motion and congratulate the postmasters. They have campaigned relentlessly on this issue. They have given a lot of thought and effort...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: Yesterday the Taoiseach said it would not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: There is a more serious issue at stake here because from midnight tonight we go into level 5. The State needs to declare that the removal of stock from Debenhams is non-essential work that does not fall into the category of what is allowed to be taken on over the next six weeks. The only beneficiaries of the removal of this stock are KPMG itself, which may get enough money to be paid...