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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the budget allocation to his Department will allow for the needed expansion and provision of additional services and routes for the state's bus and rail services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32791/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the expansion of the public transport network to cope with increasing volumes of passengers in all three companies, Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. [32790/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the contracts for JobPath were put out to tender; the awarding process; the criteria on which it was based; if there was any other applicants; the personal data of persons participating on JobPath that will be passed onto the recruitment agencies; if persons participating will be notified in advance of their data and details being handed over;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons participating on JobPath are paid by either JobPath or the employer for travel, childcare or lunch vouchers; and, if it is the employers who pay, if it is mandatory that they cover costs when they take on a JobPath participant. [32955/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 476. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the upcoming Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and its implications for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31818/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (27 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to expand national forestry coverage as a measure to battle climate change; the role of Coillte Teoranta in these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (27 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to rejuvenate the fishing industry and fishing communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21594/16]

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: In acknowledging that the Minister is not present, I find it difficult to accept that it is not a function of the Minister to interfere with the primary staffing appeals board or that the board's decision is final. That approach is a little harsh and begs the question as to why we have Ministers if they cannot intervene in crises that deserve immediate attention. I ask the Minister of...

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am not trying to pull at people's heartstrings, rather I am trying to show the reality for the children in Walkinstown who are facing the loss of their teacher when I tell the House that I received a few emotional e-mails from them. Mika has told me that the school does not have the 230 students it had expected to have and that the fifth and sixth classes will be squished - a great word...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want the House to note the Minister have given us a rationale for privatising the national broadband plan, and the money is to be used for key issues such as climate action. I will hold the Minister to this for as long as I can stay in the House to do so, and I will keep a close eye on it. It was a big mistake to privatise broadband, but if the Minister is going to do it and put the money...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will have great craic.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Minister will be battered. I wish to reiterate the urgency of action needed on climate change. I am on the Joint Committee for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. From what I have seen both at the committee yesterday and in the past, there is double-speak going on. On the one hand, we acknowledge verbally in our dialogue that we have a problem. We have had a 1.38°...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am talking about the billions of euro given to landlords to build houses and the tiny amount of the budget allocated to climate change.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I have to take the Minister up again on the question of global warming. In yesterday's committee debate on land usage, there was a real contradiction in what the committee was being told by the Department. On the one hand, there is this ambition to adhere to the EU regulations on land usage and to use it better for absorbing carbon, and on the other hand, there is great excitement when it...

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: -----and I think the Minister's Department has to take some responsibility for that.

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Is this my last minute?

Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: Great. I will go all day at this. Let me go over it again. The Minister should be concerned about the budget, but he does not seem to be. He seems to be happy enough that he has €500,000 for a national dialogue. There were 15,000 young people on the streets protesting during the Paris deal on climate change. They have had the dialogue and they know what they are talking about....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Postal Services (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I repeat the point I am trying to make to which the Minister does not respond. It is not just a question of a falling volume of mail; that is being compounded by the insistence of Departments to reduce Government transactions in post offices. Together, these are putting huge pressure on the viability of An Post, while at the same time the Government insists that all these services be...

Other Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: I am not sure of the times I get.

Other Questions (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: The clerk is saying something to the Acting Chairman.