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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for allowing me to go ahead of him as I must go to the Dáil Chamber shortly. I have a question for the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Perhaps Ms Egan will take this question. I am not asking the Department to comment on reports in the media at the weekend that tensions are mounting in the coalition over the scale of carbon emission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Specifically on the targets of 22% or 30%, does Mr. Callanan think the higher target is what is desired and what is necessary? Will it be necessary to cut the herd to achieve that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: The big concern is the rising levels of methane. These were reported on last year by the United Nations, which is very concerned about the matter. Methane is much more dangerous because it traps heat at a much more intense level. From what I have heard today, it does not seem that this matter is being treated with the urgency it deserves. I would be concerned not just about reducing our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have taken up enough time. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan let me speak before him. I thank Mr. Callanan very much for his answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Given that Dr. O'Grady has said that the ambition for EVs would be the least reduction in the emission targets, does the Department envisage prioritising public transport, which I hope will be free and frequent, particularly throughout rural Ireland as a priority rather than EVs?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Poland's abortion ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33169/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will go one further and argue with the Minister that he has a duty to publish that review, having sat on it for six months. Many people are going through agony, having been knocked off the housing list after years of waiting. This is not right. There are various schemes in the Housing for All policy which are really an attempt to reinvent the wheel. What we need is a massive investment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to examine the income limits for social housing; if they will be increased and whether those who have been removed from the list over the last period will be reinstated to their position on the lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32965/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: The problem with the response of the Minister of State is that he said social housing has to look after the most vulnerable. We know, and it has just been outlined, that those who may be eight, ten or 12 years on the housing list and who get a small increase in their net income are taken off the housing list. This makes them very vulnerable. Many of them do end up in homelessness and they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the rising number of evictions; his plans to deal with these; if he will consider a reintroduction of an outright ban as an emergency measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will use its place on the UN security council or call in the Israeli ambassador to raise the use of administrative detention by the Israeli state, and if it can specifically raise the hunger strike of two detainees (details supplied) who have been held in administrative detention; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a company (details supplied) and Dublin Bus are unable to provide their full scheduled bus services in Dublin as a result of staff shortages; the reason that in the absence of the company having its required staffing numbers the National Transport Authority has proceeded to expand services with new routes such as the N6 and N4; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify exactly when housing assistance payment rates will be increased; if he will acknowledge that an increase will help some tenants to remain in properties in which rents have risen and will also provide for others waiting to be housed to access more dwellings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of commercial rates that have been collected by all local authorities since 2018 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (23 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 393. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a publication date of the review of atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers given that she recently declared that it was imminent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (22 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of data centres connected to the national grid; the number of new data centre applications presently approved for connection by Commission for Regulation of Utilities; if the Minister will seek clarification from the CRU on whether new rules on connecting data centres apply only to new data centre...

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: In welcoming this proposal for a directive, I fully agree with the Minister that gender-based violence directed against a woman is because she is a woman. Such violence is a manifestation of historically unequal power relationships between men and women. We should bear that in mind every time we look at this subject because there are so many aspects of trying to address that problem in the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I wish to ask about a Bill that I introduced last year. On 30 June, it will be a year since the Government amended the Second Stage motion on the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 on the basis that it would return the Bill to the House within a year, which would be next Thursday. Will the Taoiseach guarantee me that the Bill...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Next Thursday will be a year on.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the planned total investment in the national public service obligation bus fleet; and the increase anticipated in over all fleet numbers per year to 2030, in tabular form (details supplied). [32014/22]