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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: What the Tánaiste has said to Deputy Gannon is contradictory. He did not answer the question. I will return to the issue of the triple lock. I listened with interest to the debates on Leaders' Questions. Although the Tánaiste says we need to do this in order to stop Russia and others having a veto on Security Council resolutions, he has never mentioned, nor does he seem to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: It is not about how much more dangerous the world has become but what side of that danger the Government want to be on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: Instead of being on the side of decency and humanitarianism, the Government wants to take the side-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----of the US.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: When Mr. Biden stood in this House and kissed babies, little did we think-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----he would be dropping houses on their heads and phosphorous bombs on their skins in Palestine.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I asked about America.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: That was not my question. A comment is not a question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste did not seem to have a problem with it vetoing a resolution on 18 October.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste did not.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I wish to share time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I have to come back on two very obvious, almost glaring, contradictions in what the Minister of State has just said. Both he and the Tánaiste are at pains to create this equivalence by all of the time going on about 7 October and what Israel is doing without, by the way, ever once condemning Israel. There are two pieces that I am going to pull out from what the Minister of State has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I do not doubt that the Minister of State’s statement that all residents will remain in the care of the HSE is true. Unfortunately, the transfer on a like-for-like basis will not actually be like for like. For example, it jumps out at me immediately that there is a 24-7 medical team on site in Cherry Orchard. A GP will only be present one day per week in the Bartra Healthcare centre...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is it not a conflict of interest that those who carried out the inspection on the Willow and Sycamore units do not have engineering qualifications? We need answers that go much deeper than what we are getting.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister of State for taking the debate this morning. I will pre-empt it by saying I hope by the end of the discussion she will strongly consider meeting representatives of the families of the 68 patients in Cherry Orchard Hospital who are due to be moved, mostly against their will, to the Bartra Healthcare centre in Clondalkin to allow the refurbishment of two units, namely,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I want to draw the attention of the Taoiseach and the Chief Whip attention to the fact that on Saturday, the world will mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. As this House does not sit on Saturday, it is unfortunate that we will not have a session on it this week. I ask the Business Committee to guarantee that we have a serious session next week on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is even worse.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(6) The Minister may, following consultation with the Minister for Justice, prescribe by way of regulation, the systems which shall be used to record warnings issued under subsection (2).”.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: I hope I use my two minutes carefully, correctly and usefully. I am here going on eight years. When I first got elected, we were trying to fight for the referendum on the eighth amendment. I have got a news flash for the Deputies who have just spoken: the train has left the station, the eighth amendment was passed, women do have a choice in this country, and rehashing all the old arguments...