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National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: I wonder why? I wonder if it has anything - anything - at all to do with around 200 years of oppression and control by the church of our bodies, our lives and the hopes that we had held for the future for women and girls in this country after repeal was won.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: Has it anything to do with that? Is it not bizarre that the Minister on the other side of the House finds us niggling and annoying because we keep asking this and because we looked for this debate? Then he comes into the House and does not even explain to us how this whole process is working. We will come out of here believing at the end of it, as will the people in the Gallery, that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Health the legal advice he has received in relation to the proposed national maternity hospital that any proposed agreement with a private entity can be described as representing unbreakable legal stipulations; when the proposals will go to the HSE; when the memo to Cabinet will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to reconcile the requirements for full healthcare for women, including termination of pregnancy, in the new national maternity hospital if it is built on land owned by a Vatican-approved successor organisation to a Catholic religious congregation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine or commission a study into the damaging environmental and social impacts of the business-led industrial model of Irish agriculture, specifically in circumstances in which only a small cohort of farmers seem to benefit from dairy expansion plans; and his views on the fact that only 20% of farmers receive 80% of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the welfare crisis in the dairy suckler calf industry; his further views on the fact that calves are being offered free to good homes (details supplied); in view of this welfare crisis, his plans to deal with same; and if polices are in place in his Department in relation to allowing 1.6 million dairy cows be put back...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to quote back to the Taoiseach the words of the UN General Secretary, António Guterres. The Taoiseach quoted Mr. Guterres this morning as follows: "Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another. Simply put, they are lying". The Taoiseach seems to think that this applies to the Opposition because those in opposition, or some of u, at least, are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: What is unpopular with the Taoiseach is banning data centres and shutting down the possibility LNG here.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: What about the actual fossil fuels?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: Nonsense. The Taoiseach should listen to the science not to his own logic.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am asking the Taoiseach about the science of allowing in LNG and allowing data centres to use up our electricity.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Government is allowing it in. It is leaving the door open.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: There is when you are angry and you cannot help yourself. The Taoiseach is accusing me of------

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [14285/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: On a related matter, but moving slightly sideways, has the European Union discussed the importation of liquefied natural gas, LNG, from the USA as a reaction to the Ukrainian crisis and in order to move away from the consumption of Russian gas and oil? Poor old António Guterres is getting quoted a lot in this House today. He warned European countries against this consumption of fossil...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: But it is okay to depend on the US gas?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: By 2030, we will be dependent on US gas instead.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has left, because this is really his business. Yesterday he repeated that the core funding model for early childcare and education would benefit 99% of childcare providers but I have met and talked to smaller providers who represent a cohort of 1,500 small childcare providers and they are not seeing any benefits from the new scheme. Many are...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: Agreed.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is agreed.