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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps the Government could raise the issue of women who are raped as a weapon of war being given access to abortion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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 Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has studied a recent paper on wealth taxes and the problems with previous attempts by European Union states to introduce wealth taxes (details supplied); the plans he has in this regard for the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31246/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to follow on the discussion that has been going on. The question I am about to ask is quite significant because we are constantly being told that there are not enough resources to do all we have to do to deal with the various crises. Has the Minister of State looked at the recent Oxfam report that dealt with wealth taxes and the problems with previous attempts across the EU to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: I do not want to go down a rabbit hole of arguing with the Minister of State about the significance of the property tax. He says people's homes are the biggest form of wealth but for many it is a struggle to keep the roof over their head, pay the mortgage, etc. Putting the property tax on those who can ill-afford it is obscene. However, that is not what I am here to argue. The Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: If the Minister of State reads the Oxfam report when he gets a chance, he will see it is looking at extreme wealth and how it has doubled, tripled and, in the US, increased tenfold in recent years. In the 1980s, we were told there was no money, we were bust and needed to tighten our belts. We know since there was plenty of it but it was held in Ansbascher accounts, offshore tax havens and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is disingenuous of the Minister of State to keep referring to people's homes, farms and pensions. We are talking about an obscene level of wealth that is not properly taxed, as pointed out by the Oxfam report. The wealthiest in the globe have seen their wealth jump by €4.35 trillion during the pandemic. The report states that, globally, billionaires have had a terrific pandemic....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: The clock says I have 30 seconds.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Collection (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I am sorry about that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: When I was listening to the Tánaiste's spat with Deputy Doherty earlier, I was thinking this House must be full of bowsies. I, too, went to jail, along with dozens of other ordinary people, fighting the cost-of-living increase in 2003. Bin charges, which are now privatised, are going through the roof and vast profits are being made, and this is one of the issues in the current...