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Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Lucky me.

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is a more substantial reply than the one I thought I would get. However, the main point is that the level of investment put into this service will not make the service more competitive. What makes the service more competitive is from the point of view of Go-Ahead, not from the point of view of the Minister, this State or the passengers who use the buses. Go-Ahead will make it more...

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is not underhand. It is blatant. There is nothing underhand about it.

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will drive a coach and horses through everything the Minister said because the Dublin Bus tender came in at a lower price than the Go-Ahead tender. What competition can Go-Ahead engage in? Can it reduce the cost of fuel, hiring, servicing or maintaining a fleet? It cannot. The only costs it can reduce are labour costs and conditions within the company. In case the NTA did not tell...

Other Questions: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: They are not mad.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (11 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assure workers in Irish Rail and the travelling public that the Government does not support the closure of any of the existing rail network or lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42135/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (10 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or officials from his Department have met with or had representations made to them regarding energy policy and renewable energy by representatives of a company (details supplied); and the details of all such meetings or representations. [42385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the waiting time is set in legislation or a statutory instrument to qualify for community employment scheme, Tús or back to education allowance (details supplied); and if so, the legislation or statutory instrument that references same. [42749/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: This is a lovely building. I feel great. Yesterday, I received a written reply to a question I tabled on the renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, and I am not happy at all with the reply - not that the Minister told me any lies

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: No, Minister. What is coming across is that it is very aspiration for the Minister to include remarks such as: "embracing new technologies for communities, and smaller microgeneration, but on the other hand that is not the evidence of what is done. Less than a year ago, I tabled an amendment to the Minister's Bill to allow small communities access to the national grid and he argued...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has the Minister put timelines on this? People are getting a bit impatient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am asking about its implementation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: We were not long gone from the Dáil in July when the Minister of State made an announcement that he was licensing an exploration in the Porcupine Basin for gas and oil to Tony O'Reilly Jnr. I have not been a Deputy for too long but I have never felt as gutted as when I heard this. It was a kick in the face to do this when we had shut down and the committee and the Dáil had gone....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I would like to make a comment and a request. My precise point is that we are so reliant on fossil fuels that we should not see our future as a continuation of what we are doing now. As we try to deal with climate change, surely we have to factor an energetic and well-funded ambition to move away from fossil fuels into what is going to happen over the next ten or 15 years. There is no...

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I wish to criticise very strongly the reaction of the Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, to Deputy Joan Collins's point on Leaders' Questions this morning. His response was quite shocking. He said the question of a referendum on water does not matter, does not affect the Irish people, does not have any impact on our lives, is neither here nor there, is an academic question, and does not bother...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Yes. As somebody who is not a member of this committee, I appreciate the opportunity to put these questions. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My first question is for the Commission for Aviation Regulation. Ms Mannion has been employed there since 2012. Is she aware that in 2012, Michael O'Leary attacked the regulator for being overstaffed and overpaid and claimed that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Absolutely, and evidence-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----of Ryanair's Michael O'Leary addressing the breakfast held by Fine Gael last year where they all clapped him and told him he was wonderful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: I cannot find any Fine Gael Deputy who attended it. They all deny it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ryanair Service Provision: Commissioner for Aviation Regulation and Irish Aviation Authority (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: Thank you.