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Other Questions: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is a very lame response. As a country and internationally we should be very concerned by the commitment from President Trump to move the embassy to east Jerusalem. Within 48 hours of his inauguration, or even before the inauguration, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel stated there was no longer a need to co-ordinate construction in Jewish neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem and that...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is the main issue I am raising. Will the Minister comment?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans following the latest deferment of the trial of a person (details supplied) in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3098/17]

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: When I first read this report in The Irish Times, which was the first one to flag to the people that the tone of the report was very much to say there had been no whitewash, nothing was going on, people should move on, there was no problem and there was too much panic about something that was not really a problem, I immediately felt sick in my stomach. It reminded me greatly of the litany of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is clinging to a failure.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with President Trump since his inauguration. [4126/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is not that long ago that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, knocked on my mother's door, as he does at every election, looking for the vote. He should be warned that he is knocking on the door of a bus worker's family, and I think he will be run out of it in future, given his role as the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. In the not-so-far-off past...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or any representative from her Department has met and-or communicated with representatives from companies (details supplied) or Dublin City Council in the past 12 months with regard to the Dublin Central Carlton-Moore Street site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Expenditure (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether the present resources allocated to the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, is sufficient to meet its remit to protect Ireland's wildlife and biodiversity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4178/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: May I raise a point of order?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: This is with all due respect to everybody who has waited so long for this session to begin and to the people in the Gallery. As I mentioned to the Chairman earlier, I am baffled as to why we are going through this process of looking at the EPA report and hearing from CDM Smith on the question of fracking. I am baffled because the Bill, the purpose of which is to ban fracking, passed Second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry, Chairman. The Minister did not recommend in the Dáil that we go through the EPA report. That probably happened outside the Chamber. In the Dáil, he said that the Bill was tight and needed to be legally checked. This is not a legal check. This is going over the arguments for the Bill yet again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: On a point of order, I want to ask the official, although I do not know his name-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: Okay. In that case, I will ask the Chairman about something mentioned in private session regarding the new Dáil and how it works. There was a new standing order passed in respect of every Bill coming back for full scrutiny. I am a little confused about the procedures. Standing Order 141(3) states that we can or must scrutinise a Bill under the new Dáil regulations. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I was very sceptical about this process before we started and have already questioned the legitimacy of going down this road. I am even more sceptical now, having heard the presentations. Dr. Crowe and Mr. Hooper repeatedly say "if ever," "maybe some time," "if we do have to," "should we have to reconsider," "we do not have the evidence and is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Deputy for introducing the Bill. It is a very useful important and useful Bill. The Deputy says, and I agree with him, that it is quite simple. Keeping it simple is important because I note from the IBEC submission that it is trying to surround it in a lot of complexity so as to suggest that it will be a hard thing to achieve. It is interesting to think about how the workplace...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Bríd Smith: They are actually coming in.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is my day.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: There are a few flies in the Chamber. I do not know what that means or whether climate change is involved.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is right and there are no flies on me.