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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I will try and come at the issue from a different angle. It is an IR issue when workers find themselves redundant, out of work, without seasonal work, proper redundancy or proper access to pension schemes as a consequence of the closure of peat production. A just transition, however, involves finding places for those workers in which they can retrain or maybe find another job. Do we forget...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. Carroll mind if I interrupt because I only have ten minutes in which to ask questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Carroll is using up those ten minutes and he is not answering my question. I want Mr. Carroll to say "Yes" or "No" and perhaps expand on that somewhat but I want him to answer the question. Does Mr. Carroll see the issues such as the loss of work, questions of pensions, redundancy and how temporary workers are treated as entirely disconnected from the next piece, which is what happens...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: If workers lose their pensions or do not get access to the voluntary redundancy scheme or temporary workers are not treated properly, are those things not part of the brief of the just transition commissioner? The commissioner must be able to say that how such workers are being dealt with is unjust.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Carroll sees those as separate issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. Carroll see them as separate? He obviously does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is it the case that the IR issues that I have spelt out have nothing to do with just transition, will be dealt with by IR and just transition is a separate piece?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Carroll, therefore, sees them as separate issues. If Deputy Ryan's Bill was passed in the morning, would Mr. Joyce and ICTU be happy that it would deal with Bord na Móna workers, as well as other workers who may face loss of job because of decarbonising our work places down the road, in a just and fair way ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Just to be clear, Mr. Joyce, ICTU was never consulted on the terms of reference of the just transition commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Thank you. ICTU represents hundreds of thousands of workers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the IWA representatives for the presentation. I want to talk about the promotion leaflet for hotel breaks. The leaflet has quotes that read like comments on Trivago or Booking.com. There are references to the staff and food being excellent and to patrons feeling equal going on holidays with everyone else. They no longer feel that people with disabilities are put in a box. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: That does not seem to be what the IWA asked of the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: For two years, the IWA had one type of dialogue, namely, about how it needed money to save Cuisle. In the past month, there was a different type of dialogue, namely, that the hotel model will work, that it will be integrated and that it will help people to develop. There is no evidence that people should be taken from a setting they are used to, where they can meet their friends and where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: In light of the IWA's report and what it has been quoted in the media as stating, it has not fought hard enough for the users. Ms Keogh stated she only services the board but she is the CEO. Her remuneration reflects her responsibilities, which are not just to the board but to the users, and she has not fought hard enough for them. I do not mean she has sat on her hands for the past two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I referred only to thejournal.ie. The quotation to which I referred was included in the IWA's submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not referring to anything broader than that quotation. I used it as evidence to suggest that the IWA conceded far too much to the Minister of State and that it did so on behalf of its users, which was the wrong action to take.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I support the amendment very much. I did not realise a reply had been given last year when this report was requested so we need it now. It was revealed to me in response to a parliamentary question that approximately 300 young people will benefit from the changes. The idea of being able to live independently on meagre money of approximately €118 a week is pie in the sky stuff....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Carrying out a survey in respect of fuel poverty levels and how carbon tax increases impact on the most vulnerable should not be the Minister's responsibility but that of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. I am on the climate committee and fought hard to get such a study agreed on. We got it agreed but it never happened. The committee heard from witnesses...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: This is one of the most regressive measures any Government can take. It is especially harsh on manual workers. In the case of a bus driver who retires after more than 40 years, as my father did, it is evident that manual workers' lifespan is much shorter than that of white-collar workers or people who do less hands-on or shift work. Many bus drivers die before they reach 70 years of age....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am inclined not to support it because in supporting it I will endorse what is going on which, in the context of the overall budget, is a disgrace. The most vulnerable - the 136,000 who depend on the national minimum wage - work in industries that are booming, including the hospitality and services industries, yet they are being deprived of the benefits of this measure, while others were...