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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: And now the Department does not, but it is still spending more money on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Briefly to go back to my first------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: I want to refer to my first question. It might help the witness with all of his bits of paper and the difficulty he is having answering. I empathise with him. We are firing a hell of a lot of hard questions at him. We were told by the Chair in private session that having Seetec and Turas Nua before the committee was viewed unfavourably by the Department. Would it not be a good idea to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Could the Department officials please consider allowing the committee to bring them here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Contractors have appeared before the other committees on which I sit. British Telecom has come before the Committee for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. That firm is contracted to do communications work. I think it is appropriate.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Níl.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: Tá brón orm nach bhfuil mé líofa a dhóthain le mo argóint a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge. I am worried about the referendum on the eighth amendment and getting the legislation through the Houses on time. We have consistently made the argument that we need to ensure that we get an early referendum and I know the Taoiseach agrees with me on that. We have been...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (28 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Bus has removed its city centre discount fare; if this decision was made by Dublin Bus or by the National Transport Authority; if he was notified of this move; the way in which such a step is in keeping with stated policy of encouraging persons to use public transport especially in city centre areas suffering from...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Issues (28 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times since the introduction of the development application tracking system in the NPWS that planning permission has been granted to develop a built structure in an area which is a designated area. [10334/18]

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Given that the Taoiseach spends so much money on spin, I wonder if he could get a few bob to learn how to answer the question. Will he, please, give us a guarantee that no old person will die or get very ill because of the cold snap? We need an answer to the question of whether he will guarantee that they will receive extra fuel allowance payments. Will there be an instruction to community...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is spending money to protect the Apple tax from being taken back.

Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am particularly concerned about fuel poverty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I have a few questions about the environmental impact of biomass and biofuels. Obviously, I am trying to learn from everybody here as well. I am not being dogmatic about this but is there not an argument that the use of biomass and biofuels can have an impact on other parts of the planet? Alternatively, have things moved for the better? I remember quite clearly being in Egypt prior to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does brown bin waste also go to Poolbeg?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: 2020 Climate and Energy Package: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Where will it go?

Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I had a phone call this morning from pensioners who live in Claddagh Court in Ballyfermot. It is a council-run facility which houses a few hundred pensioners. The council, as a matter of policy, turns off the heating every night. Many of these pensioners will be leaving their ovens on and keeping them open in order to keep their flats warm so as well as the issues that have been raised by...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The fact that the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, has legislation on this issue before the House indicates that a Cabinet concern that defined benefit schemes are being treated recklessly by employers. Previously, AIB, Aer Lingus and BT unilaterally moved away from defined benefit schemes. That is why various parties in the House have legislation to try to control reckless companies that,...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I have a petition circulated to every Teachta Dála and Minister in the House from the workers at Irish Life who are about to take a ballot on strike action over their defined benefit pension scheme. I believe the Taoiseach has not signed it yet but I hope he will. It asks every Teachta Dála and Senator to recognise the absolute injustice being done by a company, which is solvent...

Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach was sent the petition on this matter.