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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if unclaimed National Lottery winnings are subject to any oversight or monitoring by the Government in terms of the way and when they are spent; if he has plans to revisit previous agreements on the issue with the winning contractor for the national Lottery; when the current contract expires; if there are plans on the future of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a home that previously had some home energy efficiency work carried out is disqualified in cases in which a new home owner seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the home from applying for a new SEAI grant; if the SEAI has specific rules or regulations relating to same, such as the time that has lapsed since the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all homes that have had some energy efficiency work carried out under SEAI grants are excluded from any further support from the SEAI; if the statistics are available on the work that has been carried out to date that demonstrate the energy efficiencies that have been achieved in terms of reduced CO2 emissions and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if property tax revenue for the individual electoral areas in each county are available or kept by his Department. [31657/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: This has been an interesting discussion. I am sorry that I missed the presentations earlier but I had to go to the Chamber. I have a couple of questions. One of the issues Professor Lynch touched on is the profits made in the industry. While this is not a scientific way of approaching it, I am reflecting on the example of my own community of Ballyfermot. A large number of people in...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: There is an old joke about the weather that everyone talks about it but no one ever does anything about it. It feels the same with the transition. Everyone is in favour of it. Even the usual climate denier Deputies in this House talk about how and when the transition should happen. My main concern is that despite the rhetoric there is no actual transition taking place. What progress...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: The announcement by the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, on Monday that 97% of junior doctors had voted in favour of industrial action demonstrates how frustrated and demoralised they are with their treatment by the HSE and the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly. Figures today show that 1.3 million people are still on waiting lists. The average time spent waiting to be seen in emergency...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: So are waiting lists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Yes, I think he would be happy to be quoted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is okay for the Ministers to elaborate on it, though.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will start by arguing this motion has nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with profit and the bottom-line security of Providence's resources. Perhaps the rural Deputies might considering altering their headed paper to say, instead of "I'm working on behalf of the people of this or that county", "I'm working on behalf of big oil and gas". It seems they really believe...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Coverage (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 4. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if motorists involved in an accident with an uninsured or undetected vehicle will be covered by an organisation (details supplied) for damages caused to their vehicle and or injuries suffered by passengers; the legislation or regulations that decide the particulars which are and are not covered in such circumstances; the plans, if any,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns (details supplied) of students sitting the Leaving Certificate 2022 and their parents regarding the results being released on 31 August 2022; if she plans to address the matter by bringing the release of the results forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31293/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when works are expected to commence on the necessary infrastructural provisions for the dedicated BusConnects corridors in Dublin; the liaison and consultations that will take place between the National Transport Authority and households that have had compulsory purchase order notices on foot of the proposed works; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: An amendment will before the Polish Parliament next week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 4 o’clock I note from the Taoiseach's reports that he spends a lot of time at meetings and travelling to visit various delegations and discussing the horror, as he described it, of the war in Ukraine and the extraordinary inhumanity being imposed by Russian forces on the people of Ukraine. I ask him to perform a very simple act of solidarity that would go a long way towards...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: No. I was talking about the Polish Parliament. The Left in Poland has an amendment seeking to give raped Ukrainian women access to abortion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Whatever powers the Government has to condemn-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: It should use whatever influence it has. The Taoiseach seems to be talking to many people about the war in Ukraine a lot of the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I know. I am not stupid. I know the Government does not have powers in the Polish Parliament.