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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I did not ask for that. I asked why the Taoiseach is blocking these other actions with money messages.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I hope it is okay for me to remain seated. I have a broken leg and I find it hard to stand. I did not fall off a swing and I am not suing anybody.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I want to raise something that is very urgent and important; much more urgent than anything of that nature. This month two new reports on what is happening to our globe were published. Ice is melting in the Arctic at six times the rate that was previously thought according to a report from the University of Edinburgh, which was published in early June. The global plant survey from the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Witness Protection Programme (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: 353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 26 of 16 May 2019, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the information (details supplied) was previously sent to his office by email on 1 March 2019; and if he will follow up this matter with An Garda Síochána and ensure that contact is made with the person. [23794/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I do not know how long the Chair is giving me but I have quite a few questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I find it shocking that the Minister of State is raising these concerns at this late stage. We have had three opportunities to have lengthy debates on this Bill. I find it insulting, as well as shocking, that he is raising these concerns now. I do not take it personally. It is insulting, however, to the thousands of children who went on strike and the movement that organises and mobilises...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Has the Minister of State checked the lobbying register? Has he looked at it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister of State to be honest about this. The Minister of State wrote a four-page letter to the Ceann Comhairle arguing for the money message to be given. The Minister of State should not put the Ceann Comhairle before himself. He wrote the four-page letter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State is fooling himself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: Can I interrupt the Minister of State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is precisely what I mean. If this Bill is passed, the Minister of State, or the next one, has it within his gift to say to a company that it is not meeting the environmental standards that are required, because the licensing regime allows the Minister to stop companies proceeding to the next stage on the basis of their environmental record. If the Bill is passed, it would be looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: There is no such thing as a climate emergency. Climate change is not real. Some 350 parts of CO2 per million is not the safe level in the atmosphere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: If in 20 years' time, gas or oil is found and it is brought to the point of being able to be burned in this country, does the Minister of State not think that allowing these companies to pump billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere would not breach our emissions limits and the whole idea of declaring a climate emergency and trying to deal with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: It does not make sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: There was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Bills Office not the Ceann Comhairle's office wrote to me saying this does not need a money message.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: If I can help to answer Deputy Sherlock's question, the criteria for the money message, as I understand it, have already been set out by the Ceann Comhairle in his very considered letter. On four points, he is allowing a money message, but not on one very serious point, which is the research from the library service, which would be predictive of what we might have gained in the future. He...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: I feel that I have to respond to this accusation that I ignored the question of the future and the reliance that the State will have, after 2030, on some level of usage of gas. I have only used the Minister of State's argument with him. He says that by 2030, we will have 70% of our energy from renewables. Where does the other 30% come from? At present, we import 50% of our gas needs. If,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (30 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure representative organisations of retired workers can have access to forums that will decide or discuss their pension entitlements and benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20566/19]