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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...

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

Bríd Smith: 481. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a worker who has opted out of a company pension and receives an increase in salary instead is entitled to retain the same salary with a new employer under TUPE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16908/23]

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

Bríd Smith: 485. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the regulations issued by the PSA have been altered to remove the previous clause in relation to adherence to EROs; if he will clarify his Departments legal strategy in relation to the current court case and legal action that has blocked the ERO in the security sector; if the State will, and is actively contesting the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can clarify whether a school (details supplied) is among the schools affected by the stalled school building programme; if the approval letter from her Department for the proposed works at the school will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17135/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the impact of her Department’s decision to stall a much-needed second prefab block installation at Riverview ETNS; if she will acknowledge that children with additional needs are being particularly impacted as a result of building delays with the ability to provide small group teaching and other necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 791. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to the proposed scheme for defective apartments and remediation works needed; the timescale for implementation of this scheme; if residents of such apartments who face immediate demands for levies from management companies to fund needed safety works will be fully compensated for any outlay they face...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when assessing income from earnings for access to a local authority social housing waiting list, if local authorities have the discretion to disregard one-off overtime earnings in any given year; if not, if such thresholds have no flexibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17648/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify current income thresholds from earnings in relation to social housing waiting lists; when these thresholds became operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17649/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 998. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that gardaí are informing victims of racist abuse and attacks that An Garda Síochána cannot deal with such crime because of the lack of hate-speech laws in the State; if he can clarify that the Garda is aware and trained in current legislation when dealing with attacks on people that are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1497. To ask the Minister for Health the reason healthcare assistants who come from abroad to work here, with qualifications above QQI level 5 will only be given renewed employment permits if they complete the QQI level course for healthcare assistants in Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to the NARIC Ireland international qualification comparison requirement (details supplied) that...