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EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...displaced within their own countries, such as in Sudan and South Sudan, 36 million people are refugees, and 43.3 million of the total number of migrants displaced both internally and externally are children. If we are to deal with this issue by saying we will batten down the hatches and do like Trump did, we build an effective wall around Europe. This is what this piece in the jigsaw...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...or spoken up against a single policy that has led us to the biggest housing catastrophe in the history of the State. Never once has the Taoiseach spoken against the policies that have put 4,000 children into homeless accommodation, migrants into tents on the streets and hundreds of thousands on waiting lists. We have never heard the Taoiseach say that. Why should we believe the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Facilities (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 1108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a formal report on how it is known that asbestos is present in the Royal City of Dublin Hospital building (details supplied); and if there are other defects with the building. [14296/24]

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...shocking. When we see the level of State-owned property that is lying empty, it is clear that there should not be a housing crisis for any man, woman or child, there should not be 4,000 homeless children growing up in emergency accommodation, there should not be 14,000 people in emergency accommodation and nobody should be sleeping in tents on the side of the road, and I mean nobody. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: 281. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of developmental screening for children in the Dublin 8, 10, 12 and 20 areas, and that parents are being sent questionnaires in place of screenings; if he will acknowledge that this is not an appropriate replacement for face-to-face developmental screenings with trained professionals and that parents often feel unequipped to be...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...about who would throw the Palestinian people not just under a bus but under Israeli tanks and shells, and a murderous and inhumane regime that is now driving people towards famine. We have to watch little children dying when there is no excuse for it. While all that goes on, we still allow Shannon Airport to be used for we do not know what most of the time. We know it is costing us...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will acknowledge the impact that operating out of temporary accommodation for a prolonged period of time has placed on the children/young people, families and teachers at a school (details supplied); if she will also acknowledge the demonstrated need and urgency for the commencement of a permanent ETSS in Dublin 6 and that planning...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (27 Feb 2024)

Bríd Smith: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the delay in providing an assessment of need for a child (details supplied) who urgently needs it completed to access the services they require; if he can provide advice for the parent in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8721/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if in relation to the provision of accommodation for those seeking international protection, he will take steps to ensure that training for new accommodation providers is not only provided but rigorously applied and tested as much as possible; is he aware that while experienced accommodation providers know the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that at IPAS accommodation in Inchicore, food vouchers for Tesco are distributed but that there is only a Tesco Express in that area which is limited and expensive; if he will direct the changing of food vouchers to another supplier as the accommodation provider is happy to do so upon his...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide all Members of Dáil Éireann with the contract that is provided to new IPAS accommodation providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4467/24]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...in the idea that we need to extend the definition of the "family", which we agree with? That is obvious. One cannot go against that. More than one in five relationships involves lone parents with children and marriage is basically almost like the last option. A councillor who was with me this morning at the press conference lived as a lone parent, then lived in a cohabiting couple and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...standing here to say the far right are liars and Nazi sympathisers. They spread bile and lies, first of all about single men, and then it extends to all refugees, including the terrified women and children we saw in the videos the other day. It is the far right that are spreading the riots. They are Nazi sympathisers and they see racism as a tool to deflect against what is going on in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...fault of asylum seekers; they are the Government's fault. I am pointing the figure at the Government because I really mean this. I am so angry, as is everybody, about the scenes of women and their children being frightened and bullied, and harangued and harassed, as well as the scenes of violence that ensued from that and them having to witness it. It is happening, not because they...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...if he will intervene to help secure the release of three persons (details supplied) who were kidnapped by the Israeli army on 13 December 2023; if he will acknowledge their work with traumatised children living in the Jenin refugee camp and how necessary their work is; if he is aware that the IDF took 100 persons from the camp and killed four young people on the same day and that three of...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...they may not be able to deliver on. That is interesting because during Leaders' Questions yesterday, I heard the same mantra from the Taoiseach when Deputy Fitzmaurice raised with him the right of children with disabilities to access services. Here is what good old Leo said: it is a mistake to think that the legal rights or UN conventions build houses or provide therapies. ... Creating...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (13 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: .... I wish it were true but it is not. This is not just a teething problem that can be ironed out. Large numbers of people are being stranded and are facing longer delays and longer commutes. For children and elderly people this is particularly difficult. In Dublin 12 and Dublin 10 there is no direct link between Ballyfermot and Rathmines or between Crumlin and Ballyfermot....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (13 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the much-needed therapists for ASD children at a school (details supplied) will be in place; when a nurse will be recruited for the school, given that some children cannot attend a full day at school due to the lack of a nurse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55674/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: Last Thursday members of the Fórsa trade union walked out of several hospitals, one of which was CHI at Crumlin, the national children's hospital. I received calls yesterday from parents in different parts of the country who were personally extremely distressed that there was a serious lapse in their children's care. Young babies could not get IV lines into their arms because of a lack...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (12 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...in Labre Park will be made; if he will acknowledge that this upgrade has been promised since the outbreak of Hepatitis A on the site in January 2021 and that after this outbreak in which numerous children and adults were hospitalised, the HSE and the Ombudsman for children were given a commitment that the work to address the poor living conditions would be carried out; and if he will make...