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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Perhaps the Minister is not aware of the report, which is entitled Cost of Living Crisis: Impact on Children Report 2023. The Minister has not addressed the cost-of-living crisis and its impact in the immediate term. Instead he tells me that his Department has a strategy from 2023 to 2028. How does that resolve the issues for families, 57% of whom, when asked, said they could not afford to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister still has not answered the question and he certainly has not addressed the Barnardos report. It is about the cost-of-living increases and their current and immediate impact. The report looks in particular at the past six months compared with the previous year and the impact these increases are having on children. It even states that they are "having an extremely detrimental or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees who have not been provided with accommodation since the change of policy announced on 24 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26001/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: On 24 January of this year the Minister announced a new policy to leave some international protection refugees without accommodation. That, as could have been predicted, has resulted in hundreds of refugees living on the streets, making them, as was warned would happen, very vulnerable. As day follows night, they have faced absolutely unjustified racist attacks from racists and fascists. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I would argue with the Minister that the announcement he made in January was deeply irresponsible and has left hundreds of people at risk. I say that because it was aimed specifically at international protection refugees. This has been a proxy for a policy operating along racial lines. It was not aimed at the greater number of Ukrainians who are coming in; it was aimed at international...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: To make the accusation that the announcement specifically targeted international protection refugees?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am just stating fact; I am not making-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am not; I am stating fact. The announcement was targeted at international protection refugees.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am stating that the policy was targeted at international protection refugees, who are in the main black and brown men. It has left them very vulnerable on the streets, and we all know the story of the consequences of that. My question to the Minister is how much more the Department can do. Nobody in this House has ever answered the following questions. What about Baggot Street...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. Molnár. My question follows on from the last question. How important is the emphasis the International Energy Agency puts on the need to reduce fossil fuel use as against the energy security that was referred to? In its report, World Energy Outook 2022, the IEA stated that the rapid fall in LNG after 2030 in the net zero emissions scenario implies there will be "no further...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing my time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. People Before Profit also wishes to note the passing of Michael Viney. He is a great loss to the nation. Nature was his passion and he shared it with us both widely and wildly. He is already missed. Having heard the statements on the biodiversity crisis and the proceedings of the various committee meetings on its scale and scope, I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the witnesses for all of their work. It is good to have this brought out into the open. The vast majority of people I come across do not realise this is happening, that there is a lack of services and women are still being forced to travel abroad. Apart from all the other questions that have been asked, I have a couple more. On section 9, the risk to life or health, and section...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Would the easier option for the review not have been to recommend legislative change and simply extend the period on request beyond the 12-week limit? Why did they not consider recommending that considering the WHO guidelines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Does Ms O'Shea think that if the medical profession was able to apply the definition of health and mental health according to the WHO guidelines, this would provide better access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Has Ms O'Shea recommended a change in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will Dr. Conlon speak to the experience of women requesting access to abortion who are having to travel abroad post 12 weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: The way Dr. Conlon described that, I may as well be speaking to one of my constituents. I had the experience of a woman in my area who came to me very distressed about this. My next question is on criminalisation. We have talked about that and how it acts as a chill factor for medical practitioners making decisions. It really is a chill factor when it is considered that criminalisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Fair enough and I know Ms O’Shea answered the question already. I want to push back a bit about what Ms O’Shea said in her statement. She said she thinks it is reasonable that among the 66.4% who voted in favour of repealing the eighth amendment, there would have been people influenced by the scope of the proposed regulations and have a genuine fear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Okay. I might push back against it. I want to draw Ms O’Shea’s attention to probably the only bit of real evidence we had in the moment of why people voted. When asked the question on why they voted and what made up their mind, 75% said they always knew they would vote “Yes” and 1% said they were following the Oireachtas committee and the guidelines. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: I know I am out of time, but the extension to the other medical practitioners-----