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Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The Minister will get used to me eventually.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Deputy always does this.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (24 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 307. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 10 October 2017, if the formal request was to meet officials or him; if it was made before the appointment to the board of the SEAI; and if the request was in his capacity as a member of the SEAI or in another capacity. [44678/17]

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I dispute that this is common practice as Ireland has the only aviation authority in Europe using this model. It is possible to separate the authorities that collect revenue from airlines through the taxation system, for example, and the authority that regulates how the airlines operate. This goes to a bigger issue. The Minister states the safety of passengers was at the heart of the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps somebody could have a word with the Minister, Deputy Ross, and tell him to hold them to account.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: They are not being held to account.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I do not know if the Minister is aware that the European Commissioner for Transport is due in Ireland today or tomorrow to meet the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA. Coincidentally, the meeting of the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport was cancelled this week. We were due to hear from representatives of the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association, IALPA, but for the second time the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact the decision of Irish Water, which seeks to end the service level agreement with local authorities, will have on the future of the company and on workers currently delivering services under that agreement. [44465/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (19 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ending of the service level agreement between Irish Water and local authorities has implications for retaining water services in public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44466/17]

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Once again, the House has before it a Fianna Fáil motion that addresses a very real issue, in this case one which impacts cruelly on 35,000 pensioners and there will be more in the future, who have had inflicted on them a cut of between €15 and €30 weekly. That is a lot of money over the course of a year, never mind over the course of however many years a person has left...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address the chronic staff shortages in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44188/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State will probably repeat much of what he said to other Deputies. I ask him to outline how he will try to improve the chronic staff shortages in his Department. What steps will he take to ensure more recruitment takes place and staff shortages are addressed?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I have to reject the idea that what the Minister of State has proposed will work. A second recruitment campaign took place this year and, as other Deputies have pointed out, there is an exodus from the Defence Forces, as well as significant staff turnover. I refer to conditions. The Public Sector Pay Commission reported that there was a reduction in expressions of interest in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: The men and women who are defending human rights throughout the world, whether it is in the Mediterranean, Mali or the Golan Heights, are being denied their human rights by the Government due to the level of inappropriate pay for the amount of hours they work, the lack of access to proper trade union organisation and a range of other complaints which have been brought before the Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Any level is unacceptable.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Guidelines (17 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on statements made by Kerry County Council in the planning zoning document, Landscape Character Assessment of Kerry, that the majority of landscapes in north County Kerry are not important for scenery, tourism or recreation (details supplied). [43987/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Guidelines (17 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 268. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to call an inquiry into the landscape character assessment of Kerry and the related renewable energy strategy for County Kerry and planning zoning (details supplied). [43988/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Planning Issues (17 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of unbuilt wind turbines that have live planning permission or permission granted but not yet used throughout the country by county. [43989/17]

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision of the NTA to award a company (details supplied) 10% of existing Dublin Bus routes; and the way in which this will improve the services for persons that use these routes. [42136/17]

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I would love to hear the Minister's views on the decision by the National Transport Authority, NTA, to award Go-Ahead, a British based global bus company, 10% of Dublin bus routes and not Dublin Bus. The Minister's views are probably limited because in response to anything to do with the NTA, he usually says that it is the authority's business and not his, but I would love to hear his own...