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Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister of State to get back to me on the issue of the CIÉ regular wages scheme statutory instrument. Five weeks ago, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, told me it would be signed within two weeks. Thousands of workers are waiting for this statutory instrument to be signed and it has already taken two years for the State to respond. This is not a great way to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have had difficulty with my computer this morning but I am on the campus. I heard the Minister's comments to Senator Warfield and I thank her for coming before us today. She said the facts were up to date in information and education is required for this in schools, particularly in RSE. I have not heard that sex education should not be ethos-based. I raise this because the Citizens'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Could I respond very briefly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My response to the Minister, whom I thank, is that she has not answered the question I asked. I asked whether she endorses and whether it is part of her plan to have non-ethos-based sexual education in schools. The Minister mentioned everything else, such as how information should be fair, informative, accurate and scientific, but I asked her specifically about the non-ethos-based sexual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I missed the very beginning of the meeting because I was out on the picket lines. As a starting point, Dr. Ciaran Byrne mentioned there is a single homogenous definition of communities. I want to tease out what that might be. For example, back in 2018, I met a sixth-year leaving certificate class from a boys school in Sutton who came regularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Can we ensure that their installation is accelerated in areas where people are keen to charge their electric cars but have no access to charging points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their answers. If there is an application to power a school by solar, will Ms Buggie explain why it has to involve two different technologies? Why is solar not sufficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Would reviewing that approach be worthwhile?

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I speak in favour of Deputy Whitmore's amendments. The Minister will verbally agree that the idea of a just transition is not an optional extra but must be central to everything we do on climate action and the environment. On Committee Stage, however, he stated that a definition of just transition was not agreed for the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on the signing of the statutory instrument to give effect to changes in the CIE regular wages pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the BusConnects scheme and the recent issuing of notices to householders in an area regarding the compulsory purchase order process. [28046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service intend to take in relation to the alleged misuse of national parks by organisers of hare coursing events specifically in Killarney National Park; if he will further clarify the position in relation to the use of national parks for such events; if the NPWS...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will meet the ambassador from India to express the Government’s outrage at recent and escalating calls by members and supporters of President Modi’s party in Haridwar and Delhi for the large-scale elimination of Muslims (details supplied); if he will use Ireland’s position on the United Nations Security Council...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take immediate steps to put pressure on the Israeli government to halt the expulsion and forced transfer of over 1,000 Palestinians, which represents the largest expulsion and forced transfer of Palestinians to take place since the beginning of the Israeli military occupation of Palestine in 1967; if he will acknowledge that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases of alleged historical child sexual abuse that the DPP did not prosecute, by year, for the past three years and present, in tabular form. [27434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (31 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has plans to include a complaints mechanism for families during a reform process of the Coroner’s Courts system; when this reform process will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27574/22]

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: We would like to acknowledge that the Minister has made significant changes and we welcome that. It is a stronger and wider definition than the first draft. However, we still have concerns and would like to see the actual responsibility placed on manufacturers and producers. The current wording seems to suggest that the same practices, that is, the unsustainable use of materials and so on,...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(d) and where the manufacturer or producer of the goods, products and materials concerned is held accountable and financially liable for the costs associated with their recovery and regeneration;”

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I support Deputy Sherlock's attempt to get a waiver for vulnerable people. Once upon a time, there was a waiver for vulnerable and elderly people and people who lived on the poverty incomes of social protection. Those who remember the days of opposition to bin charges will recall that they were opposed precisely on this basis. If charges were brought in and the private sector was competing...