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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 654. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current timeframe for all backlogged applications for passports to be cleared; the emergency procedures in place for persons who must undertake travel to other countries but are affected by the current delays in passport applications processing and also delays in the registration of births as a result of the cyber-attack; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 668. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way persons (details supplied) can acquire a passport in order to travel for essential reasons with their newly born child given the current situation in relation to registering births and delays in accessing passport and so on; the course of action the couple can take in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach knows that next Monday will mark a year from the tragic death of Noah Donohoe, whose body was found in Belfast and whose families have had no answers about his death. This was a teenager tragically found dead after a long search. I know the family has requested a meeting with the Taoiseach and People Before Profit stands squarely behind the family's pursuit of justice and an...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order to restrict certain developments in fossil fuels infrastructure and high energy usage data centres, to remove some developments from listing as strategic development infrastructure projects, to revise the procedure for making applications directly to An Bord...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (16 Jun 2021)

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

Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Leave to Withdraw (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move: That leave be granted to withdraw the Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [31403/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I note that the EU discussions on the various foreign policy issues included a discussion about sanctions on Belarus. It is inevitable that the EU would discuss that but it is extraordinary that there has been no discussion at that level about possible sanctions on Israel. The fragile truce is now broken and, as we speak, Israeli aircraft are bombing Gaza yet again. Those 11 days of...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I want to speak to amendment No. 19, which my colleagues and I in People Before Profit proposed. The first question to consider is what we are seeking to amend. The answer is that we want to amend the Government's failure to provide a definition of just transition. There is only one mention of it in the entire Bill, even though it is one of the fundamental issues that needs to be dealt...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Having listened to the Minister's response, and indeed to the debate, one of the most honest contributions came from Deputy Bruton. It was honest because he let the cat out of the bag as far as the Government is concerned when he said there is no way we can look after everybody, there is no way we can guarantee people's incomes will remain the same and there is no way everybody will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will adhere strictly to the staffing ratios announced for DEIS schools given the extra difficulties faced by such schools during recent Covid-19 crisis; if a school (details supplied) will face the loss of a teacher in the new term; the grounds for appeal and deadlines for receipt of such appeals to the relevant authorities;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements her Department has made to facilitate and enable parents of newborn children access children’s allowance payments given that the recent cyber attack has meant parents cannot register child births; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31892/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment last met. [31404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the duties the EU directives in relation to the transfer of undertakings imposes on all employers in Ireland involved in such a transfer; the rights currently conferred on all employees as a result of this directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32215/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reverse the FEMPI cuts to the fees of barristers contracted by the State to defend and prosecute criminal law matters; the reason such fees have not reversed while other FEMPI cuts have been addressed; if he plans to meet barristers’ representatives; his views on the impact of these cuts on the operation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representatives of retired staff can be excluded from discussions around the resolution of actuarial deficits and the governance structure of their schemes in relation to the operation of minimum funding standards in occupational pensions schemes and the functioning of the Pension Authority; if retired staff associations...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to changes made to the selection process for members of the ESB pension scheme board of trustees and specifically that this new process now acts to exclude retired staff members who are active members of their own representative associations; if such an attempt to exclude potential trustees...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she met with representatives of barristers contracted by the State in criminal law cases over the fees paid to their members; if these fees remain the same as were paid in 2002 given that cuts introduced by the State as a result of FEMPI have not been reversed in relation to barristers but have been reversed in relation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste knows as well as I do that when one fights hard for something one does not give it up easily. The Tánaiste fought hard for the leadership of Fine Gael; he will not walk away from it. All my adult life I, and tens of thousands of women in this country, have fought very hard to be free from the shackles of the Catholic Church over our reproductive rights. We won that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I cannot accept the guarantee that full reproductive rights, including gender realignment, will be available because the constitution of the new holding company states that its core values are identical to those of the St. Vincent's hospital holding group. That constitution needs to change. I accept the Tánaiste is concerned about some of the things we are concerned about. Ideally,...