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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that lending institutions take account of existing tenants' ability to meet current rental costs when assessing their mortgage applications given that couples are being denied mortgage applications for sums whose monthly repayments work out much lower than their current rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Transfer of Undertakings (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the transfer of undertakings obligation on employers will apply to the proposed closure and transfer of business by a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30805/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Litter Pollution (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 447. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if bins located in St. Stephen’s Green and Iveagh Gardens are solar compactors; his views on reports that they are currently full in advance of a busy bank holiday weekend; if there are plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 672. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of an Irish resident who must travel to the UK for an essential purpose and who is fully vaccinated; if such a person must have a PCR test prior to travel and return; if such a person will be required to quarantine in a hotel or at home; if so, the period of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 654. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current timeframe for all backlogged applications for passports to be cleared; the emergency procedures in place for persons who must undertake travel to other countries but are affected by the current delays in passport applications processing and also delays in the registration of births as a result of the cyber-attack; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 668. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way persons (details supplied) can acquire a passport in order to travel for essential reasons with their newly born child given the current situation in relation to registering births and delays in accessing passport and so on; the course of action the couple can take in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will adhere strictly to the staffing ratios announced for DEIS schools given the extra difficulties faced by such schools during recent Covid-19 crisis; if a school (details supplied) will face the loss of a teacher in the new term; the grounds for appeal and deadlines for receipt of such appeals to the relevant authorities;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangements her Department has made to facilitate and enable parents of newborn children access children’s allowance payments given that the recent cyber attack has meant parents cannot register child births; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31892/21]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: There are critics in this House who will argue that this Bill will not build a single house and we all know who they are. It is a tiresome response from those who have presided over the State for the past ten years as the housing crisis has become the catastrophe it is today and a generation has been scarred from the failure of the State to provide a basic necessity to its people. Normal...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I confirm I am on the campus of Leinster House. This is an historic move by the Minister. It is exceedingly welcome. Ireland will be among a handful of countries across the globe that will be banning oil and gas exploration. I worry, however, why the Minister has felt the need to double down in this Bill on existing legislation, thereby allowing companies that have licences to move on to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: The Minister said he expects this will not have to happen. It is a bit like crossing our fingers and hoping it will not. It is a real shame that the provision is being included in the Bill because we have not, in fact, entered into contracts with any of the relevant companies. They have licences, which is quite different. What the Minister is saying is that, regardless of how...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I do not agree but I am not putting it to a vote.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I agree with Deputy Duncan Smith. It is important that we start and continue through the Bill acknowledging that the point of all of this is to limit the increase in global average temperatures by 1.5°C. It is important that is enshrined in the Bill along with a just transition so I support the amendment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I hear what the Minister is saying, that he is here to listen, is willing to listen and he is hearing us and all the rest of it, but Deputy Pringle put it very well when he stated it is a bit of a headbanging exercise. That is not fair to us. We all have a lot to do and if the Minister is going to reject amendments we should know that from the outset, rather than go through these things one...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Naughten makes a good case for the farming sector. We should start by acknowledging that the farming sector is challenged by our climate change objectives. However, I would make a distinction between the vested interests of the agrifood business and the family farm. The Deputy spoke about how we needed to deal with the increase in the herd over the past ten years. It has been...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I am shutting up now, which I am sure the Chairman will be delirious about.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I agree that this is extremely important. There is a plethora of similar amendments here and it would be good if the Government could go back and change the Bill, which was originally peppered with the phrase "in so far as is practicable". There was a huge amount of comment on the matter and a request to change it. The Government did so in respect of most of the text of the Bill but not in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister comment on our proposed removal of the wording "in so far as is practicable"?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, to delete lines 26 to 30 and substitute the following: "'climate justice' means the requirement that decisions and actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change must: (a) support the people who are most affected by climate change but who have done the least to cause it and are the least equipped to...