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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am alarmed by Professor Higgins' tone in suggesting we are being over the top, emotive and trying to make out that the church will come in and steal the entire agenda. He has got it wrong. I was a young woman in the early 1980s. I had an abortion at that time and had to go to Liverpool for it. I campaigned against the eighth amendment as a young woman and then lived through the years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, I accept that. However, I believe Professor Higgins should also defend the women of Ireland who come into his wards every day. The women of Ireland have concerns-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: In the corridors yesterday, the Minister told me that for most of the HSE hospitals that are not providing abortion the reason is funding - the HSE and proper funding. That is what the Minister told me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: -----and I am representing my constituents. That is what we are doing here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the climate action delivery board co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [21860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to increase the number of staff answering passport telephone queries from members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in advance of the summer 2022 season given that it is already extremely difficult to get through to obtain information for persons who are experiencing delays in obtaining passports; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge how severely ill those who develop long Covid can become; if the matter will be addressed; if he will offer protection from reinfection by providing access to treatments (details supplied); if he will increase access to new diagnostic testing which is available in parts of Europe and South Africa; if he will provide the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am substituting for Deputy Gino Kenny. I thank all the witnesses for the work they do and for coming along here today. I have to say that I feel that we are in the middle of something really weird. Drip-fed bits of information keep coming at us, as elected politicians. We are not getting the full truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. For example, the Minister has just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Before she comes in, I will make a point. Everything the Minister says conflicts with the fact sheet from the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. The Minister says we own the land but the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group says that it owns the land. The Minister asks what interest the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group has but it says that it has an interest in it. The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group says something different. The Minister and the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group are singing from different hymn sheets and that does not help. Could the Minister have a meeting with the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, sit down and ask why it is saying one thing when we are saying another and why it says it owns it when we say it does not? I ask the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Please. Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is not always in a habit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My time is up so I want to make a couple of remarks before I finish. Fair play to Ms Brosnan for having such confidence that she can guarantee the future of women's healthcare in terms of abortion in this country. Nobody in the United States can guarantee it for women in America and they have had it long, long before we have had it. While I have a minute, I want to thank Professor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Somebody did use it but nobody here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I think we all accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is not my language.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Exactly. Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: No. I did not say that I do not trust everybody. The Minister is making it out that I cannot deal with anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: That is not what I am saying.