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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Yes, it is a proposal that the committee write to the Minister after this meeting with regard to Bord na Móna workers and their communities in just transition and request that he instruct Bord na Móna management to engage fully with the Workplace Relations Commission on a forum for just transition without delay and with immediate effect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am also aware that the Minister could do this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Dooley's party still puts motions and we still support them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: We must not forget what we heard in the first half of today's meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: No. I want to put the proposal I outlined when representatives of ICTU were here. I questioned them and the members heard their answers. An instruction needs to be issued to the board of Bord na Móna to engage with the process of a just transition forum which the WRC chair has already indicated he is in favour of and willing to engage with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I cannot really object if it is to come before the committee next Wednesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is unfortunate because every delay in this matter is regrettable but I cannot really object because the point Deputy Corcoran Kennedy makes is correct; there is hardly anyone here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is unfortunate that members did not stay.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: It clarifies that it is a personal issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is tolerating it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Shame on the Taoiseach for not deselecting this woman. It is outrageous what she is doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I asked a question which the Taoiseach did not answer, namely, how high his bar is when it comes to his candidate playing the race card. In the same interview, Ms Murphy claimed that ISIS may have infiltrated three year olds who come to this country. My nieces and nephews live in the Taoiseach's neck of the woods and do not experience racism in their schools in Mulhuddart and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Now she is spouting lies which will scapegoat minorities. Should that escalate, as leader of the country, it will be on the shoulders of the Taoiseach. I ask him to please answer my question. How high is his bar against racism in his party?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: Last night, I attended the campaign launch of the People Before Profit candidate in Wexford, Cinnamon Blackmore. It was a good meeting, with many women there, and I heard about the issues that affect the people of Wexford. What jumped out at me was the complete lack of mental health services for children, and the crisis that most of the women in the room had experienced or their families...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review will be commissioned into proposals to retain a location (details supplied) for education facilities; if a feasibility study will be commissioned into siting an Educate Together facility and a Gaelscoil at another location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47443/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrangements have been made to relocate staff working at the Technological University Dublin city campus offices at Park House, North Circular Road, to alternative offices for the duration of work to remove asbestos at the site; when a risk assessment on the site was completed; the reason for the proposed removal of asbestos; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47269/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (19 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: 643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered by approved housing bodies since 2015 under the CAS scheme; the number that were delivered for social housing; and the number delivered for non-social housing under the funding scheme. [47100/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (14 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: I find it astonishing that the Minister can say with a straight face that retaining top civil servants because their skills are so precious and finite means they have to be rewarded for their greater intellectual and progressive powers. Is the evidence in the negotiation of the contract around the national children's hospital, the tender for broadband or the housing or trolley crises? Where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Government Procurement (14 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his role in selecting the chief procurement officer; if the CEO of the Office of Government Procurement will have a future role in the management of costs at the proposed new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46802/19]