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Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: You were. You were there last year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Catholic hierarchy. [40413/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: My questions are not dissimilar. Did the Taoiseach raise the question of the redress payments due from the church when he met representatives of the Catholic hierarchy? The latest figures available to us show that €85 million of €700 million, which was promised by the church to fund the redress board, has been paid. That is 13% of what was committed to. These figures come...

Mediation Bill 2017: From the Seanad (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: We, too, strongly support the amendment and welcome the Bill. I ask the Minister to respond to me by advising how his change of the numerical order of the amendment will impact on the overall intention of the Senators' amendment. As I understand it, they recognise that these measures are already in the Bill but that this will copperfasten the idea that legal advice should be given to those...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the detail of the recent open principal officer competition in which scoring errors have been made in the critical reasoning part of the aptitude test which was outsourced to a UK provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40340/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Injecting Facilities (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons an injecting room at a centre (details supplied) is expected to serve. [40155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 450. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the direct investment made by the State and public or semi-State bodies via grants or other forms that is directed to solar or wind energy projects for each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [40367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Incentives (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current or planned incentives available for solar or wind energy projects. [40368/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 545. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of recruits that joined all branches of the Defence Forces in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the numbers of those that are still serving in the Defence Forces. [40338/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in 2018 for the referendum on the issue of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. [39622/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Come on, Deputy Dooley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I had my hand up before the last two speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I had my hand up from the beginning and the Vice Chairman acknowledged that. I am not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I just get fed up. I am the only woman on this committee and it is very clear to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: What is the reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was here before Deputy Stanley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is not messing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was here before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: For the record and the information of the public and everyone in this House, I want to reiterate the point I made earlier. Deputy Stanley arrived late. I had my hand up at an early point but the Vice Chairman called him before me. I get it that there is a pecking order in this system in terms of the size of one's party, but men in this House should get it that there is sexism in politics....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----besides the State. Only the body politic and the State care about them. No one in the market does. I have listened to people arguing about this company and that company, but companies are not going to make profits going up boreens, up hills or down dales unless we heavily subsidise them. That is what the taxpayer is about to do to the tune of 60% more than it was meant to cost us in...