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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: My understanding is that it came in in 2008.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Why was Ryanair given until January 2018 to be compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is a question rather than a point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It does not actually. Yesterday, there was a plenary session in Strasbourg involving dozens of very irate MEPs from all over Europe. The whole discussion was about Ryanair and how badly the transition has been managed. Mr. Courtney might say that is Ryanair's problem but it is the Irish Aviation Authority that oversees this, so that does not add up. Neither does it add up to say that over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Courtney for that. I have one final question for him with regard to EASA and its response to the fact that Ryanair and Aer Lingus were the only two airlines in Ireland that were applying a different calendar year. My information is that every other country in Europe was applying the January to December calendar year. Was EASA alarmed or concerned that there were two airlines in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: EASA was not alarmed by it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sure that EASA must be choking on those words that Mr. Courtney referred to, having seen the bags that was made of it------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is a bit of a mad suggestion that I just made, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Working Hours of Pilots and Pilot Welfare: Irish Air Line Pilots Association (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: With all due respect, as somebody who is not a member of the committee but who is a member of other committees, it would be very wrong to send the delegates away without allowing them to make their presentation. It would not just be disrespectful it would also be unnecessary because if we have the documentation to which Mr. Cullen is referring, surely that should be enough. We often have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Working Hours of Pilots and Pilot Welfare: Irish Air Line Pilots Association (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Working Hours of Pilots and Pilot Welfare: Irish Air Line Pilots Association (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is a matter for the Oireachtas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: This is a lovely building. I feel great. Yesterday, I received a written reply to a question I tabled on the renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, and I am not happy at all with the reply - not that the Minister told me any lies

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: No, Minister. What is coming across is that it is very aspiration for the Minister to include remarks such as: "embracing new technologies for communities, and smaller microgeneration, but on the other hand that is not the evidence of what is done. Less than a year ago, I tabled an amendment to the Minister's Bill to allow small communities access to the national grid and he argued...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has the Minister put timelines on this? People are getting a bit impatient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am asking about its implementation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: We were not long gone from the Dáil in July when the Minister of State made an announcement that he was licensing an exploration in the Porcupine Basin for gas and oil to Tony O'Reilly Jnr. I have not been a Deputy for too long but I have never felt as gutted as when I heard this. It was a kick in the face to do this when we had shut down and the committee and the Dáil had gone....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I would like to make a comment and a request. My precise point is that we are so reliant on fossil fuels that we should not see our future as a continuation of what we are doing now. As we try to deal with climate change, surely we have to factor an energetic and well-funded ambition to move away from fossil fuels into what is going to happen over the next ten or 15 years. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (10 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or officials from his Department have met with or had representations made to them regarding energy policy and renewable energy by representatives of a company (details supplied); and the details of all such meetings or representations. [42385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the waiting time is set in legislation or a statutory instrument to qualify for community employment scheme, Tús or back to education allowance (details supplied); and if so, the legislation or statutory instrument that references same. [42749/17]

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision of the NTA to award a company (details supplied) 10% of existing Dublin Bus routes; and the way in which this will improve the services for persons that use these routes. [42136/17]