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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will table an amendment on offshore activities and another amendment on the definition of fracking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Thank you, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman and everybody else for being patient and tolerant with me, as I have to leave to attend another committee meeting dealing with another Bill. I thank Ms Annie Hoey for her presentation. I would like to ask her a few questions. I was struck by what she said about it being an incredibly dangerous misconception to think that students do not need to know what to expect in...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: There is a crisis in public transport in Dublin. Mistakes were made time and again by various companies. It is not that long ago that the NTA and Dublin Bus reconfigured their routes, yet the situation has not improved significantly. That said, a number of the extended routes work very well. Investment in CIE has decreased in recent years. For example, investment in Dublin Bus fell from...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----and putting more cars on the road by building the motorway system and putting an emphasis on private instead of public transport. Our motion cuts through the nonsense of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Minister, Deputy Ross. It states clearly that we would scrap the NTA and its politically-driven agenda and that public transport would be central to the policy in the years ahead...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (10 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the way the €100 million of VAT on tolls collected by the National Roads Authority and then Transport Infrastructure Ireland will be spent; the plans the agency has for these funds; and the implication this may have for his Department and the funding of transport projects over the coming period. [22129/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (10 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on media reports that the management of Bus Éireann has contingency plans to declare insolvency depending on the outcome of the pending ballot of its workers; his plans to deal with this; and if he or officials from his Department met with Bus Éireann management recently to discuss this issue. [22130/17]

Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann: Sitting in Joint Committee - Exchange of views with Mr. Michel Barnier, Chief Negotiator of the Taskforce for the Preparation and Conduct of Negotiations with the United Kingdom (11 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is very unfair. The Labour Party went over time.

Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann: Sitting in Joint Committee - Exchange of views with Mr. Michel Barnier, Chief Negotiator of the Taskforce for the Preparation and Conduct of Negotiations with the United Kingdom (11 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: We timed everyone and they all went over time.

Other Questions: Employment Rights (16 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider supporting the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 currently undergoing scrutiny on Committee Stage rather than introducing a draft proposal of her own that seems to deal with the same issues of low hours and precarious hours contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23045/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (16 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports and grants given by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to client companies since 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23046/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (16 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the number of staff employed in his Department since 2009, including temporary clerical officers and whole-time equivalents; and the amount of hours issued on the payroll. [23070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (16 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 592. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has been notified of proposed redundancies at a company (details supplied). [23063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 60. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the value of contracts for equipment, goods or services procured from Israeli-based firms and companies over the past five years by the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23277/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address the endemic low pay among personnel in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23276/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on. [23962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Consultancy Contracts Data (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of her Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23957/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts Data (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancy for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations including hiring and interviewing of staff and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23955/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the monetary value of all work contracted out under the aegis of his Department to external agencies or consultancies for work completed or investigations undertaken in human resources and industrial relations to include the hiring and interviewing of staff and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter....