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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: Can you hear me okay, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms MacEvilly for the presentation. My first question is on energy prices, which have been a big political issue. We know that they have quadrupled in recent months. Can the CRU explain why the prices are so much higher than the EU average? I have some figures. In 2019, for example, the price of gas to the household was 12% above the EU average and the price of electricity was 11%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: Do we still get quite a chunk of our gas supply from Corrib? This argument of having to pay for transport does not stack up when it is coming from Corrib. Will the witnesses return to this? The witnesses' answers are very convoluted for ordinary people, including ordinary Deputies such as me, who are trying to understand. Why are they separating the idea of a rise in profits from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have loads more questions but I am not getting answers that I can accept as being reasonable in light of the crisis we are facing. Therefore, I am kind of giving up at this stage. I will go back and talk to the people who are suffering the most and try to mobilise a bit of attention on what the Government and the CRU are doing - or not doing - to help them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman. I want to go back a bit over old ground. We have had a discussion with Deputy Costello and Senator Boylan about the prepay and the protection of customers. I have just had a text from a prepay customer who tells me the standing charge for one of these prepay meters has gone up in the past couple of weeks from €1.20 a day to €1.50 a day. That might sound...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (10 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is necessary to review the Food Strategy for 2030 in view of Ireland’s emission reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61544/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if workers at an organisation (details supplied) will be included in the Covid recognition payment given that they meet the criteria being reviewed by his Department in view of an email from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6913/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6405/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [6404/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles in the bus fleet for Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to date in 2022; and the expected numbers for the coming period. [6244/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent on the Dublin BusConnects project to date in each year since 2017; the breakdown of the consultancy fees, engineering and other survey costs connected with the planning stages of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6245/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that the NTA provide an explanation for the current system on certain Dublin Bus routes whereby buses are expected to align with pre-ordained timing points at each stop on their route; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such a system essentially demands buses are driven at extremely low speeds or stop...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the signing of a statutory instrument to allow for improvements in the regular wages scheme for CIÉ workers; and when this statutory instrument can be expected to be finalised. [6247/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be made that the report of the independent working group on defective homes will be completed by the end of March 2022; if he will act promptly and decisively on the report recommendations; if he will provide tax credits in Budget 2023 for owner-occupiers of defective apartments and duplexes who have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approved housing bodies are permitted to raise rents in areas in line with rent pressure zones and not by having regard to their tenant's actual income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6250/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant of an approved housing body having been housed from the local authority waiting lists can be charged a rent or face a rent increase based on reference to rent pressure zones and the percentage increases that apply to them rather than their actual income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a housing body (details supplied) and its complex at Ballinteer was provided with funding streams by the State which would allow it to set rents for tenants that are not governed by the differential rent setting used by the local authority or to clarify the method of rent setting that is used; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide information (details supplied) in relation to the gathering at his Department regarding the United Nations Security Council vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 385. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that are being taken to help the populace of Afghanistan as they continue to face the most horrendous conditions including starvation and extreme poverty with many resorting to selling body organs or children to secure food for their families; the actions that are being taken at European Union level to ensure immediate aid is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (8 Feb 2022)

Bríd Smith: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a series of matters in relation to the amalgamation of three schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6248/22]