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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that is being made on sectoral carbon emissions limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28374/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will pay attention to the number of times I come in this time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I will follow up on an earlier line of argument in the context of how we are falling short of our commitments in respect of our emissions reduction targets. Yesterday’s EPA report shows that we are falling well short of what is in the climate action plan, which is law. Friends of the Earth issued a number of statements yesterday and did a very good job in pointing out many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: The emphasis here is on what you choose to pick out of it. Friends of the Earth is right. The amount of energy from the national grid used by Data centres is absolutely shocking. It currently stands at around 14% and is set to rise to 30% by 2030. These kind of figures are unbelievable. The Minister seems to live in a fantastical world where, on the one hand, the Chair of the climate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will sum matters up by saying that any attempt to develop an LNG terminal in this country will be met with the ire of the climate movement that the Minister once represented. I feel he will let the members of that movement down in vast numbers if this development goes ahead. It cannot just be down to an energy review and An Bord Pleanála; it has to be down to our national and global...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 45. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers that have been given own door accommodation since publication of the White Paper For Ending Direct Provision. [28429/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to refugees being accommodated in hotels (details supplied) in Dublin that have not been provided with beds and have been sleeping on floors and on chairs, in unsafe situations for families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision centres that have been closed since the publication of the White Paper For Ending Direct Provision. [28428/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the recent case of 60 Ukrainian refugees, including children attending school that were given less than 24 hours' notice of being transferred from their accommodation in Dublin to Youghal, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that Tusla is not paying the pandemic bonus payment to its staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a recent report (details supplied) which suggests that fossil fuel industrial lobbyists in the United States have used the war in Ukraine to push for new oil and gas infrastructure and expansion given that such expansion is incompatible with Paris treaty targets similar pressure is being applied to build...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that the bid price for renewable electricity support scheme 2 projects has been significantly higher than renewable electricity support scheme 1 projects; the reason that the price varied between community-led projects and others; if he will consider State or semi-State bodies delivering renewable projects...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sanctions that were applied to the provider of the National Broadband Plan for failure to reach targets; the future benchmarks expected that is, the targets to be reached in terms of roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 252. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to the validity of a current passport, specifically if a passport is due to expire in the next month, if a trip within a European Union country takes place if a return ticket is produced for inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28702/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Fitzpatrick is out of order.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the announcement today of the 80 electric buses to be provided this year and the plan to go to 800 over the next eight years. Much more needs to be done. It is welcome but it is a drop in the ocean compared to the urgency that is needed to deal with climate change and the cost of living. I note the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, has endorsed the People Before Profit policy of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: My question was about the policy for free public transport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 4 o’clock I note from the Taoiseach's reports that he spends a lot of time at meetings and travelling to visit various delegations and discussing the horror, as he described it, of the war in Ukraine and the extraordinary inhumanity being imposed by Russian forces on the people of Ukraine. I ask him to perform a very simple act of solidarity that would go a long way towards...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: No. I was talking about the Polish Parliament. The Left in Poland has an amendment seeking to give raped Ukrainian women access to abortion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Whatever powers the Government has to condemn-----