Results 101-120 of 120 for going forward speaker:Bríd Smith

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...is a very sensitive issue and we need to be careful. If we put a 12-week limit on a request for an abortion in the case of rape or incest we may well be excluding a whole cohort of women. We are going through a period now where Women’s Aid have 16 days of drawing our attention to the question of domestic violence and we are seeing programmes on the television in the home. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...recommendation deals with the matter. However, I have been approached by parents who have asked me to try to get this through without gestational limits. This is why the recommendation was put forward. The idea is to show compassion to people who have been through the experience. They want to know that the gestational limits will not apply to them. Having listened to the evidence of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...failed me. I only knew that was the case after I felt sick every morning and missed periods. When I discovered that I was pregnant and did not in the least bit want to be, the only option for me was to go to England. This was shortly after the eighth amendment was inserted into the Constitution and I was lucky that I had a lot of friends, and my sisters, who had fought in that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...the Minister for Health if he will report on the recruitment of line staff in the public health service particularly general hospital nursing staff; and his plans to retain newly qualified staff going forward. [48153/17]

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...expression, "the tracker mortgage scandal", I cannot help thinking of the advertisement that was used to get people to buy into tracker mortgages. There are a dozen people sitting on an Imp bus going through the city of Dublin saying to each other out loud, "I don't know what a tracker mortgage is." It turns out the bankers did not seem to know what a tracker mortgage is either....

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...us and have an impact on our lives. His remark was disgraceful because, from 2014 to 2017, the biggest response of a people's movement in the history of the State was seen in respect of something Governments tried to impose on those people. That response included many communities being treated and manhandled very badly not in scenes reminiscent of those in Catalonia, including Barcelona,...

Report on Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Motion (1 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...in. We were squashing them into the Gallery and, unfortunately, could not find enough space for them. I am very proud of one of them, Eileen Flynn. She did not come here today because she got so fed up not getting in the last night. Last week, she completed her degree course in Maynooth. She was one of two Traveller women who have gone to college and completed their course in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Maternity Hospital (3 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...own and which the Minister listed. We have no intention of sneaking in during the night to undermine people who provide services. However, as with the prayer debate we had last night, we should go forward on a different footing and start by pronouncing that the brand new, state-of-the-art national maternity hospital which is urgently needed and which will cost the taxpayer €300...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to do that at all. Of course they are depressed and mental health levels are very low. At the very least, we need to recognise that reception centres such as this are inappropriate for people who are going to stay in the State for long periods. They need to be given the freedom to work to make a contribution to society, and they certainly need to be given the freedom to use their brain,...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...a break to the young women in this country who face daily the obstacle of not being able to procure abortions at home. The Minister and I know, as well as the dogs in the street, that they can go abroad and we can export the problem. They can also obtain the materials for an abortion illegally over the web. I happen to be in favour of a united Ireland and I find it difficult to...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...result, for the bosses or entrepreneurs that came up with this whizz-kid idea, is that they do not have to pay minimum wage rates and are not responsible for workers' health, safety or sick pay. God forbid that they be entitled to a pension. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been around for a long time and is old as the system of capitalism itself. It is not a result of some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed). (14 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...employers of the post-Industrial Revolution era who had children up chimneys and on factory floors but, nevertheless, the pattern is that when legislation that could benefit workers is brought forward, employers tend to complain bitterly. While I welcome it, it does not go far enough. I would like to take some of the facts in the presentations to task. It is wrong to say there is no...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...jazz. That chunk will be taken into account in determining their average number of contributions during their working life and will bring their contributory pension rate right down. The then Minister brought forward a measure that would discard the homemaker years for homemakers post-1994. If a person left a job to make a home after 1994, when he or she comes to retire, the homemaker...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...and families in a positive way. She cites the example of how schools will have to publish an official policy for pupils who want to opt out of faith formation during the school day. However, she goes on to say it is unacceptable that the Bill does not deal with the baptism barrier. She says she finds it incredible that we allow our publicly-funded schools to use a child's religion or...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: Tá an-áthas ar an AAA-PBP tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bhille seo a bhaineann le príobháidiú uisce. This is a good Bill. It is essential and flows naturally from the mass movement we have seen in the past few years in response to water charges as conducted by this and the previous Government. I believe the Bill will be passed. My understanding is that Fianna...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...on Monday is that the Minister is refusing to pay members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI, for supervisory duties. If the schools close in that scenario, the Taoiseach, Government and the Minister are responsible for that closure, not the members of the ASTI. That must be made clear. This is a sideshow. The members of the ASTI took a day's action just over a...

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...does not have the 230 students it had expected to have and that the fifth and sixth classes will be squished - a great word kids use - into one classroom. She says not everyone could manage to go to a private school or one that is further away from their area and that accommodation prices are getting higher and higher in the area. She says they could not blame the parents if they have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...hand, that is very serious. On the other hand, I attend sittings of the Dáil and committee meetings and hear, for example, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine boasting about looking forward to having the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, with Canada so we can beef up our beef trade with Canada. In addition, we are delighted that we have just done a big...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...to hear the Minister's answer, I will check back on it tomorrow, but in 2015 the National Traveller Partnership budget of €1.2 million came through the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. This year, that funding stream was transferred to the Minister's Department, along with the national network funding, under the scheme to support national organisations,...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is very difficult for people to go through this draft document that was leaked, rather than see what is being proposed in reality for this new arrangement with Deputy Kenny proposed as Taoiseach. One thing is for sure: there is no new politics going on here. In fact, it is the same old failed policies of the previous Government. However, what is interesting about the arrangement is that...