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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. 42: In page 8, line 10, to delete “shall” and substitute “must”. This amendment is about strengthening the language of the Bill. It is an important difference. The word "shall" is stronger than "may", but "must" is much stronger than "shall". We are seeking to substitute the word "shall" with "must" because it is most important that the...

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. 43: In page 8, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(iii) the goals of a Just Transition,”. It is self-explanatory.

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

Bríd Smith: Can we replace ourselves on the committee if we cannot attend Tuesday's meeting?

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

Bríd Smith: What times are scheduled on Wednesday?

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

Bríd Smith: Is the Tuesday meeting from 9.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [26508/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit, even.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Sixteen years ago today a young man called Terence Wheelock walked into Store Street Garda station but he never walked out. Three months later he died, having been in a coma due to the injuries he received while in custody. GSOC investigated this killing and concluded that no problems were found. GSOC is currently investigating the killing of George Nkencho and I can predict what its...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Thankfully, we do not have that many deaths in custody.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Well, I am.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Just like the Taoiseach's answers.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I think it is not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: No. I think that when there is a death in the custody of the Garda there should be an investigation that is entirely independent.

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputies Catherine Connolly, Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle for tabling the motion. I know the debate is being keenly watched by people campaigning to ensure our National Maternity Hospital is in public control and I am not very reassured by the statements this morning from the Minister. Three years after the referendum repealing the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [29785/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Covid, probably more than anything else, has shown us how people, particularly workers, are our best resource. Workers, not only those on the front line but also others of all hues, beaver away doing essential tasks and allowing society to tick over. While we sit here debating the greater things in life, we rarely think of the centrality of workers in our society. We rarely think of them...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the resource efficiency action plan for 2021 of his Department. [26510/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Vaccination Programme (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a protocol or instruction to employers to facilitate employees with time off in order to attend for Covid-19 vaccination; his views on reports of some employers insisting that employees must make the vaccine appointments at their own expense and that in some cases this is proving to act as a deterrent against getting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the important work on the issue of period poverty carried out by the youth advisory panel with the Ombudsman for Children; if she will acknowledge the indignity experienced by young persons who cannot afford appropriate period products every month and the statement made by the UN Committee on Rights of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (1 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: 544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 20 May 2021 (details supplied); the way in which the average figure of six pups per litter has been arrived at in the absence of an exact figure for the number of pups born; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29490/21]