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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am conscious of time too and I am watching the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: If the Chairman would stop talking, I would have more time to ask my questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: What are we going to do to address the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ----- of the 60 bus in lower Ballyfermot? We have written to the NTA and are looking for a meeting with the authority. What will the authority do to address the backlog in Chapelizod and to address the Go-Ahead Ireland service on route 18? I also ask the NTA whether it would agree with me that the competition in the public transport system has created that race to the bottom and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Will the NTA meet the public representatives in the meantime because people in Ballyfermot and Inchicore are screaming at us and asking what is going on? I ask the NTA at least to have a meeting and explain to the public representatives in order that we can go back and explain to the public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: For people waiting at bus stops for hours and hours and not having any guarantee of when a service is coming; a week is a long time, never mind a month or two months, which Ms Graham is looking for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am very sorry to hear if Ms Graham calls that improvement.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Tomorrow, it will be ten years since the tragic and avoidable death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital having been denied a life-saving operation for an abortion. Everyone will acknowledge that we have come a long way in the last ten years and her death ignited a movement that saw an end to the misogynistic anti-choice laws in this country. However, we still have a way to go....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Emergency Services (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times that the ECAS call system has been down in the past five years and when did these happen; and for how long for each occasion. [53986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 20 October 2022, if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) is carrying-out the second phase of the termination of pregnancy legislation review; if he will speak directly to the initial phase which included a report submitted by a UK university on service providers’ experiences of the...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, lines 19 to 21, to delete all words from and including “to” in line 19, down to and including “necessity” in line 21. In this section, following the reference to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, the words "to the extent that they consider practicable, taking particular account of the said exceptional...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "Reports 12.The Minister shall, six months after the commencement of this Act, provide a report on the likely CO2emissions from the 450 megawatts of temporary emergency electricity generation plant and shall thereafter provide a report, as soon as practical, detailing actual CO2emissions in subsequent...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, to delete lines 21 to 25 and substitute the following: “(3) The designated development is a project not likely to have significant effects on the environment in this or another state.”.

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, line 30, to delete ", or any other person,".

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will speak briefly to amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive. On amendment No. 1, it has already been said that it looks like we are effectively tearing up the Planning and Development Act by pushing this and scrapping environmental impact assessments and habitat directives. At the very least we need to be sure that this applies only to the existing suggested industrial power generation sites...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Much has been said about this issue, not because we have had plenty of time to discuss the Bill, but because we have been kicking back and saying we are not willing to forgo pre-legislative scrutiny and that we do not have enough time to discuss the detail of the Bill. This is setting a very bad precedent, in particular for the Green Party. At the first sign of the crisis, the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the shared island dialogue All-Island Women's Forum civic initiative. [53233/22]

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: When the Minister, Deputy Noonan, walked in here this morning I asked him why he was here and not the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien. He said he had pulled the short straw, and indeed he has. I have noticed that the Minister, unusually, has put in an amendment to our motion. We have been listening to Private Members’ motions for months now where...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "reduce the cost of travel for commuters currently excluded": "— public transport fares to be abolished from the start of 2023, including for commercial bus and rail operators, and investment to ensure free public transport is also fast and frequent". I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is good to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [51718/22]