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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I did not want the Minister of State to take my criticism personally. They are political criticisms and they are criticisms of the Minister of State's party propping up a neoliberal and right-wing set of parties. Those parties are bound to fail on climate because they believe in the capitalist model of doing business and economics, as the Green Party apparently does because it voted against...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Stop voting against our measures.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. I thank friends and comrades in the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade for talking to me in the last while and sharing notes with me. I am proud to say that I have got to know a lot of them very well over the last few years, particularly since I was a councillor. DFB was and still is run by the council. It is still under-funded. It always has been....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9964/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Shocking figures from the HSE today show us that 27% of all deaths during Covid were of people in nursing homes. It is a shocking reminder of how we failed the most vulnerable cohort during the pandemic. I, along with others in this House, sat on a special Dáil committee during the Covid pandemic, which made a priority recommendation that the State should conduct a full inquiry into...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The ESB, founded in the 1920s, is run on a not-for-profit basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: It put the lights on everywhere in the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Let the migrants work.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9963/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to return to the question of what the EU discussed in relation to migration. I know the meeting was prior to the tragedy that happened in the Mediterranean, where at least 62 people, including a month-old baby and twin toddlers among 12 children, drowned coming from countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. We know that the accurate number of deaths recorded in the Mediterranean...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Exactly. Innocent bystanders.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council meeting. [9962/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: This morning, the Minister, Deputy Coveney, gave an extraordinary interview on a number of fronts, not least his guarded defence of the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins. What was more worrying was his attitude to the hike in prices by Electric Ireland. He sounded like an innocent bystander, pretty much as the Taoiseach has sounded today on the same topic. The Government seems to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the total amount of carbon credits purchased by the State since 2019 to date; the planned purchase for the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9970/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has any concerns about the impact on the State’s climate targets from the recently announced plans by a major company to build another hyper-scale data centre in Dublin; if he has any plans to introduce a moratorium on such centres, given that this is additional to 16 confirmed cases of new data centres...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in light of a recent report (details supplied) on global methane emissions, he has any plans to seek to reduce the State’s methane emissions from dairy and beef herds or from the potential impact from the recently approved gas-fired emergency generators or any future LNG proposals; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I note what the Minister of State said about the status of retired workers and the dangers of a third party coming into negotiations. Nevertheless, what these workers are seeking is that if they have a problem with their pensions after the six-month limitation of their having left work has passed, they would be able to go to the WRC. They want that six-month limitation to be lifted to allow...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am talking about the lived experience of 500,000 retired workers who are represented by the people who met the previous Minister of State, Deputy English, with me. There are quite a few retired workers' organisations. They represent a significant cohort of retired workers, but these people are not retired voters. They paid into occupational pension schemes, which basically comprises...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the progress to Committee Stage of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; the proposals his Department has to enhance the representative rights of retired workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9411/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (23 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister of State support the progress to Committee Stage of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021, what proposals his Department has to enhance the representative rights of retired workers and will he make a statement on the matter?