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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: Chairman, may I ask a question on the same theme? To clarify, is Ms Sweeney saying we will not be able to see who has paid for these advertisements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: Is it the case that this has not been rolled out in Canada either?

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: I have an issue with how women are treated in this country. Women's Aid, the organisation that supports women and families affected by domestic violence, produced its report on Monday. What it tells us is shocking. We do not just need Women's Aid to produce statistics for domestic violence and abuse, we also need the State, as promised, to do so. Some 16 years after the first report on...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State said that last October.

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (18 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am disappointed that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment is not present. I am a member of the joint committee which is shadowing his Department and wanted to refresh his memory regarding a number of discussions we had about the proposed takeover of Celtic Media early in 2017. It is obvious to everybody that the implications of what is going on in respect of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (18 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is the best exercise in deflection that I have ever seen. The question here is not about the new legislation coming in on 25 May but what has gone on in the recent past in this House. The Minister started by saying that he, like the Taoiseach, believes in the free media and a functioning, healthy democracy. There are two things I would like to say about that. The media are not free...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: I congratulate Deputy Ruth Coppinger on the Bill. In its simplicity, it does what we have needed for a long time in the State. The Bill complements the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment. All of us who were engaged in the process of watching and learning from the Citizens' Assembly and who were engaged in the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution will be aware...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: Workers in Irish Life are picketing their workplaces today in the lashings of rain. They want to know when this Dáil will do its job and pass legislation that stops employers who are in good health and whose pension schemes are very wealthy walking away from such schemes and pushing defined benefit schemes out of the equation. Ireland seems to be unique in not having legislation that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: What will the Government do about it and when?

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: Will it be possible to have it passed by the end of June?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the deputations all for the presentations. I assume everyone here accepts the science of climate change. I believe if the deputations were able to be honest – they probably cannot say what I can say – they would agree that the national mitigation plan is rather depressing. It does nothing to get us to where we need to be. The projection given by the Environmental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: Except the homeless.

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: We support the motion as others have done. I will start by stating the obvious that we have a crisis in our health system in all sectors, including in accident and emergency departments, the care of the elderly and other vulnerable sections of society, and in mental health services. There are two basic reasons for that crisis. The first is ideology of the current and past governments...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Funding (25 Apr 2018)

Bríd Smith: 50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of the investment announced by the European Investment Bank in the national broadband plan; and his views on the implications of same for ownership of the State's broadband infrastructure. [17893/18]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: On behalf of People before Profit, I salute Vicky Phelan, a national hero, and wish her the very best of solidarity in the struggle she faces so bravely. We know some details of what happened, but we do not know enough. The Minister is conducting an investigation, etc. but the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine has asked him to publish the results of the 2014 audit. When...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Minister to comment on the statement by the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine on cervical screening. The statement said that for any screening programme to be successful, it must have the trust and confidence of the public and to ensure that confidence is maintained the results of the audit of 2014 must be published. Will the Minister comment on that please? ...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Tony O'Brien, the head of the HSE, was asked this morning on the "Today with Sean O'Rourke" show about his dismissal of the concerns of Dr. David Gibbons. Mr. O'Brien said he had not dismissed those concerns and that they were taken up in the contract before it was awarded to Quest Diagnostics in the US. Is the Minister happy that is the case? I know we are not going to see the...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does the Minister have the results of the audit?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Why would an outside body as renowned as this one be asking for it?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is a real problem with it.