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Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, line 30, to delete ", or any other person,".

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, lines 19 to 21, to delete all words from and including “to” in line 19, down to and including “necessity” in line 21. In this section, following the reference to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, the words "to the extent that they consider practicable, taking particular account of the said exceptional...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "Reports 12.The Minister shall, six months after the commencement of this Act, provide a report on the likely CO2emissions from the 450 megawatts of temporary emergency electricity generation plant and shall thereafter provide a report, as soon as practical, detailing actual CO2emissions in subsequent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Tomorrow, it will be ten years since the tragic and avoidable death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital having been denied a life-saving operation for an abortion. Everyone will acknowledge that we have come a long way in the last ten years and her death ignited a movement that saw an end to the misogynistic anti-choice laws in this country. However, we still have a way to go....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Emergency Services (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times that the ECAS call system has been down in the past five years and when did these happen; and for how long for each occasion. [53986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (27 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 20 October 2022, if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) is carrying-out the second phase of the termination of pregnancy legislation review; if he will speak directly to the initial phase which included a report submitted by a UK university on service providers’ experiences of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am not a member of this committee, but I am stepping in for Deputy Gino Kenny. Thank you for letting me in, Chairman. I want to pick up on the last point first. In January, it will be four years since the legislation to allow women to procure abortion in Ireland was enacted. Straight away, when it was passed in 2019, there were pickets and protests outside GP surgeries and doctors'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: To conclude, I am glad that has been acknowledged but I am concerned about the repeated expression of the words "complex" and "difficult" in the discussion of and approach to this legislation. We are not reinventing the wheel. Many countries have safe access zones. The World Health Organization, WHO, has done research on this subject. It is not like we are taking something brand new and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses. That is very useful and very important. I want to stick with the example of Pakistan and use it as a way of teasing out a couple of arguments. First, we know that 33 million people were directly affected by the flooding there, in a country that is responsible for 0.04% of emissions. I have figures here, I think from Oxfam, that show that a UN humanitarian appeal for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am looking at the expression on Deputy Bruton's face. I have complete empathy and understanding. I am totally confused by Mr. McLoughlin's answer about loss and damage funding. Can he give me a straight and simple answer as to whether Ireland going to support loss and damage funding at COP27.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Sorry, forgive me now for interrupting -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry; I am going to run out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry I asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am almost sorry I asked because I did ask for a straight, simple answer. I would hate to get a complex answer from Mr. McLoughlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: That is okay; I get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: Mr. McLoughlin is basically saying he cannot answer it because he does not know if Ireland supports it or not. That should be the answer. We are going about it in a roundabout way. Mr. McLoughlin just said that other states support it, but he cannot answer if Ireland does. Therefore, let us park that one. I want to ask Mr. McLoughlin another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I have that point. I have two more questions. I might get to ask Mr. McLoughlin one of them. He talked about the crisis in Ukraine giving us an opportunity to engage the public regarding the costs associated with their consumption and to look at the reduction in the use of fossil fuels. Does Mr. McLoughlin see this as an opportunity to engage the fossil fuel industry on the costs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. McLoughlin.

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: A month ago today, the images that flashed across our screens and were transmitted on social media left us all feeling cold and anxious about what had happened and what it was all about. Looking at local people moving through rubble with their bare hands and local contractors moving in machinery and refusing to stop working until they completed the rescue operation was reminiscent of...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will follow on from what Deputy Kenny talked about. I know him a long time and knew him when he was a young fellow doing this sort of care work. I know the pride with which he did his job and the type of people he looked after for long periods. He looked after people with whom he built up relationships. There were people who were wheelchair-bound and people who suffered with their...