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Other Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I only get 30 seconds, one minute and one minute, but the Minister gets twice as much.

Other Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: That is great.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department's budget allocation is sufficient to ensure targets for reductions in CO2 emissions under the Paris treaty are met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32124/16]

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the additional resources he plans to use for climate action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32125/16]

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to discuss something that needs quick attention, which is the question of the scorching of the earth. The planet is warming at a pace not experienced in the past 1,000 years according to NASA, a very reputable agency with the best scientists in the world. This is not Bríd Smith or the left saying it. The planet is scorching and warming at an unforeseen pace. The response of...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will have great craic.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Minister will be battered. I wish to reiterate the urgency of action needed on climate change. I am on the Joint Committee for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. From what I have seen both at the committee yesterday and in the past, there is double-speak going on. On the one hand, we acknowledge verbally in our dialogue that we have a problem. We have had a 1.38°...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am talking about the billions of euro given to landlords to build houses and the tiny amount of the budget allocated to climate change.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I have to take the Minister up again on the question of global warming. In yesterday's committee debate on land usage, there was a real contradiction in what the committee was being told by the Department. On the one hand, there is this ambition to adhere to the EU regulations on land usage and to use it better for absorbing carbon, and on the other hand, there is great excitement when it...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----and I think the Minister's Department has to take some responsibility for that.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Is this my last minute?

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Great. I will go all day at this. Let me go over it again. The Minister should be concerned about the budget, but he does not seem to be. He seems to be happy enough that he has €500,000 for a national dialogue. There were 15,000 young people on the streets protesting during the Paris deal on climate change. They have had the dialogue and they know what they are talking about....

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want the House to note the Minister have given us a rationale for privatising the national broadband plan, and the money is to be used for key issues such as climate action. I will hold the Minister to this for as long as I can stay in the House to do so, and I will keep a close eye on it. It was a big mistake to privatise broadband, but if the Minister is going to do it and put the money...

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am not trying to pull at people's heartstrings, rather I am trying to show the reality for the children in Walkinstown who are facing the loss of their teacher when I tell the House that I received a few emotional e-mails from them. Mika has told me that the school does not have the 230 students it had expected to have and that the fifth and sixth classes will be squished - a great word...

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: In acknowledging that the Minister is not present, I find it difficult to accept that it is not a function of the Minister to interfere with the primary staffing appeals board or that the board's decision is final. That approach is a little harsh and begs the question as to why we have Ministers if they cannot intervene in crises that deserve immediate attention. I ask the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Air Pollution (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the potential health and environmental effects of the misuse or defective use of particulate filters on diesel cars and other vehicles and the fact there currently is no effective testing by the NCT system for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32127/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Mitigation Plan (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ensure Ireland reaches its CO2 emissions targets in all areas including energy production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32128/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the detail of the national strategic risks identified by him in the draft national risk assessment report concerned with climate change; and his plans to deal with such risks. [31823/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (27 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to expand national forestry coverage as a measure to battle climate change; the role of Coillte Teoranta in these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (27 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to rejuvenate the fishing industry and fishing communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21594/16]