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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 16. To ask the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [15434/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: My question is on housing as well. A couple of weeks ago I raised with the Taoiseach the role of gardaí in illegal evictions. There was a very shocking piece on Twitter which Members may have seen. A Dr. Raheel was threatened with an illegal eviction by a very angry and violent landlord who used a chainsaw or some kind of a cutting mechanism, which looked pretty lethal, to get through...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I compared him to Trump. He is much worse.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15158/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Government and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, have praised President Biden's climate action but the reality of his climate policies is quite different. He has approved more oil and gas drilling permits during his term so far than the Trump Administration did. He has sanctioned the Willow project in Alaska, which will see 600 million...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: One thing jumps out at me regarding not just the EU situation but the global situation on energy and the profiteering that has taken place. It is clear the profiteering started before the war in Ukraine. Profit margins in some fossil fuel industries increased by 64%. The money from this price gouging must be taken and given back to people who are suffering, because we see people suffering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms Sikow-Magny. It is an important details because, to me, it looks like companies may be able to offset paying the solidarity tax against losses, even though it states that companies should not be able to do so. I believe that the Heads of the Bill are contradictory. I think the definition of a market working is very limited because it works in terms of supply but at the same time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. It has been said that this is very complex legislation and indeed it is. It strikes me that there is a lot of accountancy trickery going on here. I could be wrong and I do not want to make a wrong accusation but it needs a lot of explanation. When it comes to being scrutinised it will require a large amount of legislation. It is extraordinary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: Ms Leacy certainly did a great job of giving an answer to the question but I do not understand it. I look around me and wonder whether anybody on this side of the House really understands it. I do not know, but we will find out as we go through this process. Ms Leacy has certainly done her best to address the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: Arising from what Mr. Walker has told me, the Department has had several stakeholders, something like nine, at meetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry. One of these was the Electricity Association of Ireland. What sector does that body represent? Am I right in saying that it is mainly the fossil fuel sector it represents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: On a related matter, do other stakeholders have the same view as the EAI that this measure will be detrimental to future investment? Do they also want to resist it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: My last question was on the CRU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: The CRU believes it is adequately resourced to deal with this thoroughly and to ensure this hedging is transparent to us all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am sure we will be teasing it out in the future. I thank Ms Leacy for that answer. Will the witnesses address the other questions?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can clarify, in cases where a Border Management Unit decides to refuse permission to an intending visitor to this State, and the visitor has all the appropriate documentation for such a visit, what rights to appeal or to question such decisions exists; how such refusals are recorded and documented; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can clarify the procedure in relation to decisions by the Border Management Unit to refuse permission to board for visitors intending to come into the State, specifically if the Garda National Immigration Bureau keeps a record of such refusals; the reason for such refusals; and if he will detail the number of such...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total number of homes that had retrofit work undertaken supported by SEAI grants under the various schemes operated, in each of the years 2015 to 2022, and to date in 2023; the number of homes that as result of SEAI support reached a B2 BER in this period, in relation to recent figures which show over 27,000 homes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 480. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to transfer of undertakings protection offered to workers who are changing employer as a result of such transfers, if current legislation guarantees that such workers being transferred to a new employer shall suffer no diminution of their pay or conditions in the first year after such a transfer takes place; if he can...