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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding and expenditure not spent by each Department and returned to the Exchequer in 2019. [51923/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to start by reminding everyone that the emergency we are currently going through is both a climate emergency and a biodiversity emergency. This is important in the context of this discussion, particularly where Coillte is concerned. Its representatives say that Coillte manages one fifth of its estate primarily for biodiversity. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: My first question was mainly addressed at the representatives of Coillte.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy. I was being slightly facetious; I could not resist it. I ask the representatives to address the questions of bogs versus forestry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: If that is the case, why do Bord na Móna and Coillte have a memorandum of understanding? Even though they are used bogs, would it not be better to rewet or rehabilitate them rather than planting on them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Can the way financial incentives are distributed be changed to encourage smaller farmers to get involved, rather than big companies coming in and buying up land on which to grow massive amounts of trees? Can the financial incentives that are given to such companies be redistributed? Has a different model been examined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is why I want to stray there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Forestry and Climate Change: Discussion (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am afraid it is up to me as a Deputy to ask the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have a question for the Minister. I noted his statement on the RCOG report. I have ideological issues with the way CervicalCheck has been outsourced. I acknowledge that but I also acknowledge that the Minister needs and wants, and I accept that women must have, confidence in CervicalCheck, that it has to be used, that it is a good thing and that it saves lives. I want to get that out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: This woman participated in none of these reviews. She was left out of everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Has that report been published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I do have it but I was told that it had not been published publicly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: What will happen for this woman? The community has had to raise funds. It is a poor working-class community but it has had to raise funds in order that she could have an audit done privately. She wanted to know what went wrong. She has now found out through a private audit. It is curious. I have a letter from the HSE. This woman gave me a copy. It says that the HSE will give her the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: It suggests the HSE was not sure about the laboratories that were carrying out the smear tests in the first place. What went wrong for her and for the women who have been paid vast sums of money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is the Minister not curious as to what went wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: The NHS says something else can go wrong and that something else seems to be missing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not getting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: There have been many interruptions.