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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I had my hand up before the last two speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I had my hand up from the beginning and the Vice Chairman acknowledged that. I am not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I just get fed up. I am the only woman on this committee and it is very clear to me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: What is the reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was here before Deputy Stanley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is not messing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: I was here before him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: For the record and the information of the public and everyone in this House, I want to reiterate the point I made earlier. Deputy Stanley arrived late. I had my hand up at an early point but the Vice Chairman called him before me. I get it that there is a pecking order in this system in terms of the size of one's party, but men in this House should get it that there is sexism in politics....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: -----besides the State. Only the body politic and the State care about them. No one in the market does. I have listened to people arguing about this company and that company, but companies are not going to make profits going up boreens, up hills or down dales unless we heavily subsidise them. That is what the taxpayer is about to do to the tune of 60% more than it was meant to cost us in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: That does not have to be the case for this committee. I am not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: That is rich coming from youse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Fianna Fáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: The gender gap is not something new.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Is that why the Senator is here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Like in the case of Apple.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in 2018 for the referendum on the issue of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. [39622/17]

Mediation Bill 2017: From the Seanad (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: We, too, strongly support the amendment and welcome the Bill. I ask the Minister to respond to me by advising how his change of the numerical order of the amendment will impact on the overall intention of the Senators' amendment. As I understand it, they recognise that these measures are already in the Bill but that this will copperfasten the idea that legal advice should be given to those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Catholic hierarchy. [40413/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: My questions are not dissimilar. Did the Taoiseach raise the question of the redress payments due from the church when he met representatives of the Catholic hierarchy? The latest figures available to us show that €85 million of €700 million, which was promised by the church to fund the redress board, has been paid. That is 13% of what was committed to. These figures come...

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: In the past week, we have seen serious disruption to transport with at least 350,000 people discommoded because of the actions of the Ryanair boss. I am very interested to see that there has not been a word from this House about these levels of disruption when one would think the sky was going to fall in when there is a strike in Bus Éireann or Dublin Bus. There has not been one word...